By Billy Hallowell - January 4, 2013CRESAPTOWN, Md. (TheBlaze/AP) — Hazard Wilson’s new cellmate is a hairy bundle of energy whose playful zeal can’t be contained by steel doors: a five-month-old golden retriever. Yardley is one of three canines assigned since September to inmates at a maximum-s...
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Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013By Christopher SewardThe Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionA Lawrenceville couple who stopped filing federal tax returns in the 1990s, claiming they were not subject to U.S. tax laws, will spend the next four to five years in a U.S. prison for tax fraud.A federal judge sentenced S...
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By Michelle Durham - January 4, 2013PHILADELPHIA (CBS)– The Federal Communications Commission is currently soliciting public comment on a proposal to reduce the cost of phone calls prisoners make to their families in another state. Currently, the families of prisoners who make calls pay two sep...
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By David Kravets - Wired - 01.03.13The leader of the in-theater camcording gang known as the IMAGiNE Group was handed a 60-month prison term Thursday in what is the nation’s longest sentence in a file-sharing case.The sentence handed to Jeramiah Perkins, 40, of Portsmouth, Virginia, surpass...
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Shane Guthrie during a pretrial hearing in Gainesville, Fla. Accused of beating his girlfriend and threatening her with a knife, he was offered a plea deal of two years plus probation by the prosecutor. Mr. Guthrie rejected that, and a later offer of five years.By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. - Septemb...
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The stark choice given a medical marijuana grower highlights the injustice of mandatory minimums. Jacob Sullum - January 2, 2013 Chris Williams, a Montana medical marijuana grower, faces at least five years in federal prison when he is sentenced on...
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Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013By Rhonda Cook - The Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionFirst there was a picture sent to Jimenna Whitner’s cell phone of her brother, who was bloody and beaten.Next, she got a text message from somewhere inside Baldwin State Prison 950 miles from her home in Michigan, demanding $...
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December 31, 2012The Sandy Hook Elementary shootings have affected us all in different ways. As a mother of 1- and 3-year-old boys and a virtual master’s of social work student through the University of Southern California, I am distraught by these tragic losses and empathetic with the families, ...
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RECORD SEARCHLIGHT FILE PHOTO - Aaron Betancourt, 22, right, shown with Randy Cates, 39, fill out job applications earlier this year at the Mt. Shasta Mall in Redding. Both men were among the first prison inmates to return to Shasta County under the state's public safety realignment planBy Jim ...