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Growing old behind bars

Posted on January 07, 2009
The number of older prisoners in Virginia has more than doubled in the past 10 years, creating new issues for the state's prison system. CAPRON Winter sunshine slices through a narrow security window and falls on Aloysius Joseph Beyrer's white...

Kansas Man Granted Hearing on DNA Tests

Posted on January 06, 2009
Merrill Andrews was convicted of murder in 1977 and sentenced to life in prison. Having been granted parole in 1999, Andrews is now requesting DNA tests in order to prove his innocence. Although he is currently serving a 10-year sentence...

The Stories Behind The Statistics

Posted on January 06, 2009
A recent report on the rise of young black males being killed in the U.S. continues to raise concern among youth, parents and community leaders. Some say the findings reflect a much larger problem, the failure of society on many...

Dealing With Addiction From The Judge's Bench

Posted on January 06, 2009
As News & Notes takes a month-long look at addiction, we get insight from our regular contributor, Judge Lynn Toler of TV's Divorce Court. She joins Farai Chideya to discuss her days as a municipal court judge in Cleveland Heights,...

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Human Rights Watch studied abuses

Posted on January 05, 2009
The Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) is currently being sued by seven female prisoners on behalf of all others similarly situated for sexual assault, sexual abuse, sexual harassment, and inappropriate visual surveillance within its correctional facilities for women...

Kidnappings in Mexico Send Shivers Across Border

Posted on January 05, 2009
Four hooded men smashed in the door to the adobe home of an 80-year-old farmer here in November, handcuffing his frail wrists and driving him to a makeshift jail. They released him after relatives and friends paid a $9,000 ransom,...

'Justified homicides' more than doubled

Posted on January 05, 2009
One hour after revelers welcomed the new year in 2008, a motorist at a Northwest Side intersection fired three shots into 24-year-old Tomas Garza, moments after authorities said Garza threatened the motorist with a baseball bat in an apparent road-rage...

Douglas A. Berman Criminal Law professor at Ohio State University

Posted on January 04, 2009
Professor Berman was the Editor and Developments Office Chair of the Harvard Law Review. After graduation, Professor Berman served as a law clerk for Judge Jon O. Newman and then for Judge Guido Calabresi, both on the United States Court...

Dallas County probation program addresses addictions, bipolar disorder

Posted on January 03, 2009
Kimberly Armstrong says she has run from every drug program she was ever ordered to attend. But when she was sent to one offered by Dallas County probation aimed at treating both her drug addiction and bipolar disorder, she decided...

Groups sue Bush over last-minute rule changes

Posted on January 02, 2009
The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence sued the Bush administration yesterday in hopes of stopping a new policy that would allow people to carry concealed, loaded guns in most national parks and wildlife refuges. "The Bush administration's last-minute gift...

'Lethal Warriors' in Iraq, linked to string of crimes back home

Posted on January 02, 2009
Reporting from Orange County and Colorado Springs -- They nicknamed themselves the Lethal Warriors, and during two tours in Iraq, the soldiers of the Army's 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry regiment confronted some of the war's cruelest fighting, hunting insurgents through...

Officials describe search for state's top forensic pathologist as tough

Posted on January 02, 2009
Officials are moving closer to hiring Mississippi's first medical examiner in more than a decade.It is progressing," said Sam Howell, director of the State Crime Lab. "They are looking at some candidates to be interviewed." The medical examiner's post has...

Otis L. Sanford: Cops posing as kids just does not seem right

Posted on January 01, 2009
OK, I get it. This is about creating a safe school environment and protecting students from the scourge of drug dependency. It's about zero tolerance, or something close to it, for peddling even small quantities of drugs on or near...

Napolitano backs security tech

Posted on January 01, 2009
Gov. Janet Napolitano ? President-elect Barack Obama's pick to run the Homeland Security Department ? has strongly advocated using advanced security technology as a law enforcement tool, drawing praise from police and raising concern among civil liberties groups that warn...

New Sentencing Guidelines For Crack, New Challenges

Posted on January 01, 2009
Michael D. Thompson, a former crack cocaine dealer, thought he deserved a break. Sentenced in 2000 to 15 years and eight months in prison, Thompson asked a federal judge in the District to release him, arguing that he had received...

Judges rule three-strikes sentence unconstitutional

Posted on December 31, 2008
California's three-strikes sentencing law suffered a blow Tuesday when a federal appeals court struck down as unconstitutional a 28-years-to-life sentence for a sex offender who failed to register with local police at the correct time of year. The U.S...

Emotions tested in a year of crime

Posted on December 31, 2008
The criminal landscape of 2008 reminded all of us how fragile ? and strange ? life can be. It was a tragic year for police officers, with the Houston Police Department losing three to violent circumstances. As a result, Texas...

Girding for new marijuana law, state offers enforcement tips

Posted on December 31, 2008
Police officers should issue tickets, similar to a building code citation, to anyone possessing an ounce or less of marijuana, under an advisory released by the state yesterday recommending ways to manage the law decriminalizing possession of the drug...

N.Y. High Court Bars Surrogate-Elect Over Campaign Contributions

Posted on December 30, 2008
The Court of Appeals on Monday barred Nora S. Anderson from becoming Manhattan surrogate on Jan. 1 pending the outcome of Manhattan District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau's prosecution of her for allegedly failing to accurately report contributions to her campaign...

Judge-Elect, Indicted, Is Suspended by Court

Posted on December 30, 2008
The New York State Court of Appeals on Monday ordered the suspension of Judge-elect Nora S. Anderson while she faces criminal charges accusing her of committing financial fraud during her campaign to become a Surrogate?s Court judge in Manhattan. The...

Report: Police officer deaths down in 2008

Posted on December 30, 2008
Deaths of law enforcement officers in the line of duty fell sharply in 2008, with the number killed by gunfire reaching its lowest level in more than five decades, according to a report published Monday. The statistics show 2008 has...

Study: Houston leads in homicides by black youths

Posted on December 29, 2008
As violent crime nationally slows in growth or declines, the United States is facing a dramatic ? but hardly noticed ? increase in murders by and of young African-American men, a Northeastern University study released today reports. Between 2002 and....

Gov. Rod Blagojevich pardons 22 people

Posted on December 29, 2008
Marcus Lyons was so bitter after leaving prison in 1991 that he tried to nail himself to a wooden cross outside the DuPage County Courthouse. On Friday, two decades after he was convicted of a rape he did not commit,...

State senators study case of innocent man who died in prison

Posted on December 29, 2008
Legislators may change state law to recognize the innocence of a Fort Worth man convicted in Lubbock more than 20 years ago. State Sens. Robert Duncan, R-Lubbock, and Rodney Ellis, D-Houston, may clarify how the state compensates and exonerates wrongfully...

Pa. public-records law changing

Posted on December 29, 2008
Pennsylvania state, county and local governments will be operating under a new set of rules in 2009 when a new Right-To-Know Law goes into effect. ?The big difference is the burden of proving a record is not public is on...

Border Patrol grows and so do concerns

Posted on December 26, 2008
Shortly after riding a U.S. Border Patrol dune buggy in Arizona's high desert 2� years ago, President George W. Bush initiated a beefed-up border-security policy that some say has infringed on civil liberties -- and led to crackdowns around Port...

Jewish group leader complains about Rubashkin treatment

Posted on December 26, 2008
A leader of one of the country?s most prominent Jewish groups complained to the U.S. attorney general Wednesday about the treatment of a former Iowa meatpacking executive. The complaint centers on the government?s decision to deny bail to Sholom Rubashkin,...

Is the Bush administration criminally liable for its lawlessness?

Posted on December 26, 2008
Whatever its other legacies, the Bush administration will be remembered for its contemptible disregard for the law in the post-9/11 war on terrorism. From the wiretapping of Americans without a court order to the waterboarding of suspected terrorists to the...

Money for future Dallas DNA testing lost in Madoff scandal

Posted on December 26, 2008
Panic ensued at the Innocence Project of Texas when a powerful Wall Street investor was arrested this month and accused of swindling investors out of $50 billion. One of the organizations that had invested with Bernard Madoff was the JEHT...

Feds consider searches of terrorism blogs

Posted on December 26, 2008
Homeland Security Department may soon start scouring the Internet to find blogs and message boards that terrorists use to plan attacks in the USA. The effort comes as researchers are seeing terrorists increasingly use the Internet to plan bombings, recruit...

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