Plaxico Burress Pleads Guilty --- Off to Prison

pO157.

Posted to Sport on Sat Aug 22, 2009 at 07:55:12 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

Famed former football Player Plaxico Burress surprised a courtroom and the sports world when he plead guilty to gun possession charges in Manhattan, and will spend the next two years as a guest of the Empire State.

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Follow the rules you'll have mad bread to break up not 15 19 years on the wakeup

pO157.

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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Prisons Bursting at the Seams

pO157.

Posted to Legal on Fri Feb 29, 2008 at 05:35:32 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

Statistically speaking, almost 7 members of TnT are expected to be in jail or prison right now. Perhaps that is why the post count around here is so low? :)

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You Don't Jerk Around With Justice (Or Anything Else) In The Broward County Jail

MayorBob.

Posted to Legal on Sat Jul 28, 2007 at 07:45:25 PM EST (promoted by Acefantastik). RSS.

The arm of the law didn't have to be that long to reach out and bring Terry Lee Alexander to justice.  This is because his crime committed in his cell at the Broward County jail.  Mr. Alexander was masturbating in full view of a Broward County deputy who reported him to jail authorities.  Thus, for pleasuring himself in his cell, Mr. Alexander received a 60-day sentence for indecent exposure.  He could have received a year, so no complaint from Mr. Alexander.  But it turns out the Broward County jail authorities have made it a mission to punish jail cell masturbators.  This has led some people to question the wisdom of punishing what many consider a "natural act" and others to ask if, by doing so, the jailers aren't just jerking around with the taxpayers' money.

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Scooter scot free

pO157.

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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I'm In Jail And I'm Having The Time Of My Life!

pO157.

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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David Hicks And The Continuing Sham At Gitmo

1fastdog.

Posted to Legal on Mon Apr 02, 2007 at 05:12:59 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

Guantanamo Bay inmate David Hicks was sentenced on Friday to seven years' prison for supporting a terrorist organization, yet he will serve only nine months of his sentence according to a plea deal struck with his US prosecutors. He will also be returned to Australia no later than May 29 to serve the remainder of his sentence, and could be free by the end of the year.

So there you have it. David Hicks, supposedly such a threat to the world-at-large that he was kept under wraps at Guantanamo Bay for the past five years, will be a "free" man in nine months.

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The DNA Has Set Me Free, [I'm] Not Guilty Y'all Got To Feel Me!

pO157.

Posted to Legal on Mon Apr 02, 2007 at 12:30:15 AM EST (promoted by 1fastdog). RSS.

Anthony J. Capozzi (aka #87A8440), having served 22 of a 11 to 35 yr sentence for a series of brutal rapes in Buffalo, NY,  was exonerated on 3/28 after lost evidence was found.

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The Sermon In The Pen.

MayorBob.

Posted to Legal on Sat Feb 10, 2007 at 11:43:35 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

Every American citizen has the right to practice his or her religion - it says so in the US Constitution.  But, does practicing one's religion extend to allowing violent offenders behind bars to serve as quasi prison chaplains?  Does commenting or expounding on the gospel to prisoners behind bars constitute having a special "position of authority" in prison?  These questions are playing themselves out in a courtroom in federal court as an appeals court panel decides whether a convicted murderer has the right to preach to his fellow sinners behind bars.

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Death Penalty Facing Execution In New Jersey

pO157.

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

pO157.

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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