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- 7 hours ago
- 2 min
San Quentin Still Sends Sick Inmates to Notorious Adjustment Unit
The Adjustment Center at California's San Quentin prison, often called the AC, has long served as the harshest of California’s death row...
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Crime and Justice News
- 7 hours ago
- 2 min
People Convicted of Drug Offenses Face Hurdles To Get Pot Licenses
Anytime the police approached the Bronx, N.Y., street where Hector Bonilla used to hang out, his friends would toss their marijuana on...
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Crime and Justice News
- 8 hours ago
- 2 min
How Did 'Fat Leonard' Escape Home Confinement, Head To Venezuela?
Leonard Glenn Francis, the Malaysian defense contractor who admitted bribing dozens of Navy officers as part of a $35 million fraud...
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Crime and Justice News
- 8 hours ago
- 2 min
Former TX Police Officer Acquitted in 2020 Shooting of Black Man
A white police officer who shot and killed a 31-year-old Black man in Texas two years ago and whose response was deemed “not objectively...
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Crime and Justice News
- 8 hours ago
- 1 min
A Tough Start For Oregon Drug Decriminalization Program
Two years after Oregon residents voted to decriminalize hard drugs and dedicate hundreds of millions of dollars to treatment, few people...
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Crime and Justice News
- 8 hours ago
- 2 min
Prosecutors To Start Rebuttal In Trial Of Florida School Shooter Cruz
In the penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz, prosecutors will begin their rebuttal Tuesday, challenging his attorneys’...
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Crime and Justice News
- 9 hours ago
- 2 min
Republicans' Relationship With FBI Dwindles After Mar-a-Lago Search
Asked about the House GOP’s relationship with the FBI, Rep. Matt Gaetz — the pro-Trump Florida conservative who apparently will avoid...
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Crime and Justice News
- 9 hours ago
- 1 min
School Shooting In Russia Leaves 13 And Gunman Dead
A shooting in Izhevsk, a city 600 miles east of Moscow, killed13 people and wounded 23 others before the gunman killed himself reports...
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Crime and Justice News
- 10 hours ago
- 1 min
Judge Upholds Civil War-Era Arizona Law Banning Most Abortions
Arizona Democrats vowed to fight for women’s rights after a court reinstated a law enacted during the Civil War that bans abortion in...
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Crime and Justice News
- 3 days ago
- 1 min
New COVID-19 Unemployment Fraud Estimate Totals $45.6 Billion
A federal watchdog found that fraudsters may have stolen $45.6 billion from the nation’s unemployment insurance program during the...
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Crime and Justice News
- 3 days ago
- 2 min
'Incels' Seeking to Normalize Child Rape, Digital Hate Group Says
Men who consider themselves involuntarily celibate or “incels” have become significantly more radicalized over the past year and a half...
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Crime and Justice News
- 3 days ago
- 2 min
Is Inflation Responsible For Rise in Thefts, Robberies?
For the last two years, murders and shootings increased in the U.S., while many other crime types remained flat or fell. So far in 2022,...
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Crime and Justice News
- 3 days ago
- 1 min
Dems Spend Millions To Defend Against GOP Attacks on Crime Issue
Democrats are pouring millions into a last-minute effort to neutralize their vulnerabilities on crime — an issue they admit has driven a...
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Crime and Justice News
- 3 days ago
- 1 min
Project Veritas Faces $120,000 Damages After Hidden Camera Sting
A federal jury awarded $120,000 in damages to Democratic consulting firms targeted by Project Veritas, a conservative group specializing...
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Crime and Justice News
- 3 days ago
- 2 min
Senators Slam DOJ Over Failure To Collect Deaths-In-Custody Data
Senators on both sides of the red and blue chasm were exasperated this week over the federal government’s fumbling of inmate death data....
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Crime and Justice News
- 3 days ago
- 1 min
Krasner Wins First Police Officer Conviction in Philadelphia
Larry Krasner has been at the forefront of the progressive prosecutor movement since becoming Philadelphia's district attorney in 2017,...
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Crime and Justice News
- 3 days ago
- 1 min
Former Illinois Cop Charged With Second-Degree Murder
A former Illinois police officer responsible for shooting into a car two years ago, killing a Black man and injuring the man's...
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Crime and Justice News
- 3 days ago
- 1 min
NRA Lawsuit Against NY Insurance Regulator Tossed By Appeals Court
A federal appeals court rejected a National Rifle Association lawsuit accusing a New York regulator of pressuring banks and insurers to...
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Crime and Justice News
- 3 days ago
- 1 min
Woman Who Called Police On Black Bird Watcher Loses Suit Over Firing
Amy Cooper lost her lawsuit against the investment firm Franklin Templeton, which fired her after she received widespread backlash for...
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