Tag: jail
Scandal ensnares Detroit... Mayor Flees in Panic! [Breaking]
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Posted to Legal on Thu Sep 04, 2008 at 12:09:49 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
After months of controversy and scandal which has ensnared the countries poorest city may finally be over. A deal is due any time this morning that would lead to the incarceration, resignation and removal from office of Detroit's mayor.
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Follow the rules you'll have mad bread to break up not 15 19 years on the wakeup
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Posted to Legal on Wed Mar 05, 2008 at 08:18:10 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
After a monumental Supreme Court decision regarding sentencing disparity in Cocaine vs. Crack sentencing in December, the first inmates walked out of prison free men on Monday.
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Dirty White Boy
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Posted to Legal on Wed Sep 05, 2007 at 10:44:58 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
In the final chapter of a North Carolina "Greek Tragedy" was written last Friday with the fining and sentencing to one day in jail of former ""Duke Lacrosse Rape Case" prosecutor Mike Nifong.
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Inappropriate Sexual Gestures, Wide Stances, Gross Hypocrisy, And Senator Larry Craig
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Posted to Politics on Tue Aug 28, 2007 at 07:14:36 PM EST (promoted by 1fastdog). RSS.
The Intermountain West and the rest of the country is humming with the news that Senator Larry Craig (R-ID), who voted against gay marriage and is a considered a social conservative was arrested in a Minneapolis Airport bathroom back in June for engaging in lewd conduct. He subsequently plead guilty and was sentenced to 10 days in jail (suspended), 1 year of probation, and a $1000 fine, but it did not become public until now.
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Scooter scot free
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Posted to Legal on Tue Jul 03, 2007 at 06:50:20 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
In a somewhat anticipated move, President Bush granted clemency to Lewis Libby, former Chief of Staff to the Vice President.
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Throw Your Kids a Beer Party, Go to Jail -- For Two Years
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Posted to Legal on Mon Jun 11, 2007 at 01:12:29 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Elisa Kelly and George Robinson are about to serve 27-month jail sentences. Their crime? For Kelly's son's sixteenth birthday party, they gave beer and wine to her sons and their 15- and 16-year-old friends.
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I'm In Jail And I'm Having The Time Of My Life!
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Posted to Legal on Wed May 02, 2007 at 12:09:04 AM EST (promoted by 1fastdog). RSS.
...isn't coming just from the likes of George Bluth, Sr., the caricuture of the wealthy buisnessman sent to the clink anymore.
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Death Penalty Facing Execution In New Jersey
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Posted to Legal on Fri Jan 19, 2007 at 05:46:08 PM EST (promoted by 1fastdog). RSS.
A new report has been released by a special government commission in New Jersey fueling the debate over a punishment that has not been used since 1963. The report, coupled with the fact that the state has its first anti-death penalty governor since 1982 and a potentially sympathetic legislature could mean that NJ could soon become the 13th state without the sentence.
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Super-Max Prison Now Only Somewhat-Max, According To Arbitrator
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Posted to Etcetera on Sat Nov 25, 2006 at 01:55:09 AM EST (promoted by 1fastdog). RSS.
The USP Florence holds the worst of the worst of the worst. However, when corrections officers felt that the security did not match the level of danger created by the inmates, they filed for (and won) an arbitrators ruling forcing the Federal Bureau of Prisons to boost security.
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Putting the Cons Back in Condoms
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Posted to Etcetera on Thu Aug 31, 2006 at 09:56:19 AM EST. RSS.
California sent a bill to Gov. Schwarzenegger that would allow public health groups and non-profits to deliver condoms to inmates in prison. This was prompted in an effort to cut the cases of HIV in prison and thereby reduce treatment costs in the long-run.
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