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An Informal Guide Jennifer Waite, Yahoo! Contributor  March 12, 2009 If you've ever sat through an episode of Dateline where suspects are being interrogated, you have undoubtedly noticed some who are obviously not strangers to the system just judging by the way they speak. Perhaps when you w...

Banged up - locked in a cell. Baron - prisoner who controls illicit articles through bullying and other exploitative practices of the prisoners. Beef - Criminal charges, i.e. "I caught a burglary beef this time around." Is also used to mean problem, e.g. "I have a ...

From "Buck Rogers time" (a sentence with a far-future parole date) to "the monster" (HIV) —By Jen Quraishi  -  July/August 2008 Issue SOME PRISON SLANG: bo-bos: prison-issued tennis shoes bone yard: trailers used for conjugal visits brake fluid: psychiatric meds such as...

Abel Assessment for Sexual Interest (Abel Screen): An assessment instrument that gives an objective measurement of deviant sexual interests. Able-bodied offender: An individual in the custody of the DOC who is cleared medically and is physically able to participate in a work program unless other...

By Tom Brown  Reuters – Tue, July 3, 2012 MIAMI  - Quartavious Davis is still shocked by what happened to him in federal court two months ago. "My first offense, and they gave me all this time," said Davis, a pudgy African American with dreadlocks who spoke with Reuters at the Federa...

Jonathan Simon, professor of law  8/17/12 It is hard to say whether they are the worst crimes. They are the crimes that horrify the most. A baby-sitter, for no apparent reason, strangles the 15 month old child she has been hired to protect. A professional thief shoots a young police officer in h...

New York Times-EDITORIAL June 29, 2011 The 1986 federal drug law that punished people caught with crack cocaine far more severely than those caught with powder cocaine was a disaster on many levels. It undermined faith in the justice system by discriminating against poor and mainly minorit...

By Roger Parloff, January 6, 2010 (Fortune Magazine) -- When it comes to fighting white-collar crime, the sharpest arrow in the federal prosecutor's quiver is a law most non-lawyers have never heard of, known as the "honest-services fraud" law. In essence, the law ...

June 11, 2012  Katharine Mieszkowski - The Bay Citizen Faced with an influx of inmates, sheriffs across the state are backing a bill that would allow some felons to leave jail before they have completed serving their sentences. The legislation would apply to inmates who are dying or are so phys...