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Crime and Justice News

May 31
2 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
1 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
1 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
1 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
1 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
1 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
1 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
2 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
1 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
2 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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Crime and Justice News

Feb 3
1 min

COVID-19 Rages Through Prisons Despite Biden's Promises

On his first full day in office, President Biden promised to order the federal Bureau of Prisons to reevaluate its COVID-19 protocols and...

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Crime and Justice News

Feb 2
1 min

Some Pop-up COVID-19 Testing Sites Are Defrauding Consumers

Officials nationwide are trying to stay ahead of a proliferation of COVID-19 test sites they say are offering fraudulent services....

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Crime and Justice News

Feb 1
1 min

Omicron Surge Strains California Police Agencies

Since the Omicron surge began in December, some smaller law enforcement agencies have been forced to increase overtime, reduce services...

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Crime and Justice News

Jan 31
1 min

Nurses Charged With Fraud Over $1.5 Million In Forged COVID Cards

Two nurses from Long Island were charged after police seized more than $900,000 in cash and a ledger suggesting they made $1.5 million...

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Crime and Justice News

Jan 10
2 min

'Enormous Shift' in Criminal Gun Use Fueled Pandemic Murder Rise

After the U.S. murder total soared to more than 21,000 in 2020, researchers began searching for a definitive explanation why. Many...

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Crime and Justice News

Jan 9
2 min

Critics Complain Biden Has Failed to End Guantanamo Detention

Advocates for closing the Guantanamo Bay detention center were optimistic when President Biden took office, and approved releasing a...

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Crime and Justice News

Jan 7
2 min

When Will Homicide Totals Recede to Pre-Pandemic Levels?

Criminologists and local law-enforcement officials don’t agree on the reasons for the surge in homicides in some places. Some cite stress...

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Crime and Justice News

Jan 5
2 min

Georgia Woman Gets 3-Year Term in $6M COVID-19 Fraud

A Georgia woman who fraudulently obtained more than $6 million in COVID-19 relief money was sentenced to more than three years in prison...

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Crime and Justice News

Jan 4
1 min

One Andrew Cuomo Nursing Home Probe Ends With No Charges

The Manhattan district attorney closed an investigation into how former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo handled COVID-19 in nursing homes,...

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