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Sam Whiting  -  Saturday, November 24, 2012On a break from his desk job in Petaluma, Michael Santos climbs into his Chevy compact and drives to a quiet hillside estate, hands on the wheel at 10 and 2.His wife, Carole, is living in a newly furnished guesthouse and is at the door as he parks and an...

November 22, 2012  -  By the Associated Press   MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — For people behind bars in six Appalachian states, they are one of the few forms of escape — hundreds of used books, wrapped in brown paper and stacked thigh-high under a table, just waiting to be shipped.
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Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times  Inmates at Rikers Island load clothes and linens into a giant industrial washing and drying machine, which was installed in July.By Corey Kilgannon - November 21, 2012There are plenty of unsung heroes in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, but the story of how t...

By Nicole JonesWith one of the highest crime rates in the country, Richmond, California, is a regular on the evening news.Zoom out to just California and that crime rate looks even higher: the city’s murder rate is seven times that of neighboring San Francisco, and more than twice as high as Oakl...

By Ted Hesson(@tedhesson)  -  Nov. 16, 2012A series of reports released on Thursday call for the closure of 10 jails and prisons holding immigrants across the country, charging substandard medical care, lack of due process and geographic remoteness of facilities, which make it hard for detainees ...

By Susan Abram Staff Writer  -  11/19/2012     CASTAIC — On the outside, they were deemed criminals.     On the inside, they became heroes. For 110 inmates currently serving sentences at Pitchess Detention Center, the br...

  World photo/Mike Bonnicksen  Christopher Scott Wilson, center, with attorneys Emma Scanlan and John Henry Browne, listen as Chelan County Superior Court Judge John Bridges addresses them in court on Wednesday. Wilson pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter and related charges ...

BY Kristi JourdanLas Vegas Review-Journal  -  Nov. 18, 2012Mario Taylor was just a kid when he killed Christopher Beaver 16 years ago.He knows people will label him a murderer. A killer. But he doesn't see himself that way.He admits pulling the trigger, and knows he had to pay."I killed this...

Behind bars, Christopher Wilson maintains innocence in MacKenzie Cowell’s murderBy Jefferson Robbins  -  Saturday, November 17, 2012World photo/Jefferson RobbinsChristopher Scott Wilson, who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the February 2010 killing of Mackenzie Cowell, at Clallam Bay Correction...