Fredreka Schouten @fschouten, USA TODAYWASHINGTON - Former Illinois congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. was sentenced to 30 months in prison Wednesday for using $750,000 in campaign money for living expenses, clothes and luxury items.Jackson and his wife, Sandi Jackson, used campaign funds as a "p...
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Reversing years of tough Washington rhetoric, attorney general calls levels of US incarceration 'ineffective and unsustainable'Holder said mandatory minimum sentences "breed disrespect for the system ... they do not serve public safety. Photograph: Matt Rourke/APBy Dan Roberts and Karen McVe...
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US attorney general mandating changes that would eradicate mandatory minimum sentences for some drug-related crimesSaul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images -Attorney general Eric Holder said the US 'cannot incarcerate our way to becoming a safer nation'. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty ImageDan Roberts in Wash...
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By Cecilia Kang - August 9, 2013The Federal Communications Commission on Friday approved rules to overhaul skyrocketing prison phone rates, dealing a blow to the handful of companies that dominate the market.In a 2 to 1 decision, the agency voted to immediately cap how much prison phone-service p...
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Stacy Young, in front of the federal courthouse in Chattanooga, Tenn., will be raising four kids alone. Her husband’s “Dickensian” case left him with a harsh sentence. - Thomas Nybo for The New York TimesBy Nicholas D. Kristof - August 10, 2013IF you want to understand all that is wrong with A...
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The FCC is considering rate caps and other changes to help families shouldering high costs for phone calls from prison inmates.Telephone companies are often granted virtual monopolies in exchange for paying high fees to the prisons they serve. The fees can drive the cost of a 15-minute phone call...
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In this file photo, Inmates at Chino State Prison, which houses 5500 inmates, crowd around double and triple bunk beds at a gymnasium that was modified to house 213 prisoners on December 10, 2010 in Chino, California. More than 144,000 inmates are currently incarcerated in prisons tha...
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Why are the federal prison beds for women in the Northeast going to men-while the women get shipped to Alabama?By Judith Resnik - Thursday, July 25, 2013 Aliceville is hard for anyone without a car to get to. There is no train station or airport nearby. Image courtesy DigitalGlobe/USDA Farm...
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Facebook/Timothy Tyler -Timothy Tyler's sister took this picture in her West Hartford, Conn. apartment when he was a teenager, around the time he went to his first Grateful Dead show. Erin Fuchs - July 29, 2013 Timothy Tyler was 25 when he was sentenced to die i...