Driver Gets 18 Months; Yelled 'Go Back to China,' Hit Vietnamese Man
John Sullivan, an elderly man from Quincy, Massachusetts, has received an 18-month prison sentence for making threats to kill an Asian...
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Aug 131 min
School Food-Service Director in Chicago Sentenced to Nine Years for $1.5M Theft of Chicken Wings During Pandemic
A Chicago school district official received a nine-year prison sentence after admitting to the theft of $1.5 million in chicken wings ...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 272 min
Five Charged After Attempted Jury Bribery in COVID-19 Fraud Case
Five people were charged Wednesday with conspiring to bribe a Minnesota juror with a bag of $120,000 in cash in exchange for the...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 141 min
Menendez Trial Halted, Briefly, After Covid Strikes Co-Defendant
The trial of Senator Robert Menendez was paused on Thursday after one of the senator’s co-defendants, Fred Daibes, a New Jersey real...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 26, 20232 min
Study: COVID-19 Jail Population Reductions in California Did Not Impact Crime
California’s efforts to reduce its jail populations during the COVID-19 pandemic in order to slow the spread of the virus did not affect...
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Crime and Justice News
May 26, 20232 min
Pandemic Business Credit Opens Avenue for Fraud
A pandemic-era tax credit intended to help struggling companies survive and retain employees has become a fraud magnet and created a...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 28, 20232 min
NIC Study Shows COVID's Broad Impact on State Prisons
State prison systems endured severe staffing challenges, budget cuts and disruptions to prison programming in the first years of the...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 20, 20222 min
COVID-19 Tech Expands Global Surveillance
Majd Ramlawi was serving coffee in Jerusalem’s Old City when a chilling text message appeared on his phone. “You have been spotted as...
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By Olivia Shaw
Oct 14, 20222 min
COVID Aid Should Expand To Those Under Community Supervision
As the COVID-19 infection rate falls both in the community and within correctional institutions, research by Carmen Gutierrez and Evelyn...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 25, 20221 min
More Than 374,400 Inmates Tested Positive For COVID-19 In A Year
State and federal correctional facilities performed 4,816,400 viral tests for COVID-19 on persons in prison from the beginning of March...
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Crime and Justice News
May 31, 20222 min
San Diego Doctor Gets Prison Term For Selling 'Miracle' COVID-19 Cure
As COVID-19 spread in the spring of 2020, a doctor in San Diego boasted that he had a “miracle cure,” hydroxychloroquine. In...
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Crime and Justice News
May 6, 20221 min
Unruly Air Passenger Cases Lowest Since 2000 Without Mask Rule
A week after a federal judge in Florida struck down a government mask mandate on public transportation, the number of unruly air...
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Crime and Justice News
May 5, 20221 min
How U.S. Firearm Violence Rose During First Year of COVID-19
The pandemic period was associated with a fifteen percent increase in firearm-related incidents, a thirty four percent increase in...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 21, 20221 min
Feds Charge 21 With False $149M in False Medicare Bills In Pandemic
The Justice Department accused Southern California medical lab owners of running a $144 million Medicare fraud scheme that billed...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 11, 20221 min
Dems Pressure White House to End Title 42 COVID-19 Border Expulsions
Democratic lawmakers including Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) say they are frustrated with the Biden administration's use...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 7, 20221 min
Death Rate in Federal Prisons 20 Percent Higher Than Before COVID
Nearly 300 federal prisoners have died from COVID-19, a count that does not include deaths in privately managed prisons, NPR reports....
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 16, 20221 min
D.C. Jail Inmates Settling Suit Over Poor Conditions During Pandemic
Detainees who identified unsafe conditions at the Washington, D.C., jail at the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic have settled a...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 16, 20222 min
Ottawa Police Chief Fired Over Mishandling of Trucker Protests
Ottawa’s police chief was ousted Tuesday amid criticism of his inaction against the trucker protests that have paralyzed Canada’s capital...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 14, 20221 min
Windsor Police End Six-Day Blockade of Canada-U.S. Bridge
The Ambassador Bridge, connecting Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, reopened Sunday after six days of blockage caused by a group protesting...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 11, 20222 min
Prison, Jail Populations Rise As COVID-19 Reforms Are Abandoned
In its latest report on prison and jail populations during the pandemic, the Prison Policy Initiative says that the number of people...
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