Texas Prisons Plan To Improve Food With New Culinary Training
The Texas prison system wants to serve slightly more edible food. As part of a long-term plan, the corrections agency aims to do away...
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Crime and Justice News Archive
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Crime and Justice News
- Jan 20
- 2 min
Mayors Discussing Border Crisis, Federal Spending With Biden
The migrant crisis at the southern border will be the top focus for a bipartisan group of 175 mayors who are meeting Friday with...
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Crime and Justice News
- Jan 20
- 2 min
Tennessee Officials Fired Over Lethal Injection Execution Errors
After an independent investigation into Tennessee's lethal injection execution protocol found the process has been riddled with errors...
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Crime and Justice News
- Jan 20
- 2 min
NYC Man Gets Prison For Swindling Elderly In Sweepstakes Scam
A New York City man will spend three years in prison for his role in a bogus sweepstakes fraud that tricked elderly victims into paying...
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Crime and Justice News
- Jan 20
- 2 min
Boy Who Shot Teacher Had 'Acute Disability,' Gun Was Secured: Family
The family of a 6-year-old boy who shot and wounded his teacher Jan. 6 in Newport News, Va., said the child suffered from “an acute...
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Crime and Justice News
- Jan 19
- 2 min
Supreme Court Could Not Identify Source Of Abortion Opinion Leak
An investigation by the Supreme Court has been unable to determine who disclosed to Politico a draft opinion overturning the...
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Crime and Justice News
- Jan 19
- 2 min
Alec Baldwin, Armorer Face Manslaughter Case In 'Rust' Killing
Actor Alec Baldwin who fatally shot cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during a rehearsal for the movie “Rust” in 2021, will be charged with...
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Crime and Justice News
- Jan 19
- 2 min
Hochul Calls Vote Rejecting Her Top Court Nominee 'Not Fair'
“The committee has spoken. The nomination was lost," New York State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins remarked regarding what...
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Crime and Justice News
- Jan 19
- 1 min
Homicide Count In Big U.S. Cities Dropped Five Percent Last Year
Citing a compilation by AH Datalytics, Ohio State University law Prof. Doug Berman of the Sentencing Law and Policy blog says that nearly...
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Crime and Justice News
- Jan 19
- 2 min
Protester Killed at Planned Atlanta Police Training Center
Tensions over a planned Atlanta police training center erupted on Wednesday when a protester was killed and a Georgia state trooper was...
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Crime and Justice News
- Jan 19
- 1 min
Mayors, Advocates More Vocal About Shaming Gunmakers
Mayors and gun-safety advocates are increasingly showing their willingness to name and shame gunmakers, according to Axios. In 2021...
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Crime and Justice News
- Jan 19
- 2 min
Critics Say Biden Has Done Little To Stop Capital Punishment
In Boston, the Justice Department is pressing judges to uphold Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence. In New York, it is...
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Crime and Justice News
- Jan 19
- 2 min
DOJ Starts Civil Rights Probe In Memphis Police Traffic Stop Death
A federal civil rights investigation has been opened into the death of a 29-year-old man who died three days after being stopped by...
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Crime and Justice News
- Jan 19
- 2 min
Will Ex-Trump Prosecutor’s Book Impede NY Investigation?
The investigation on former President Trump could be compromised by a forthcoming book by a former top prosecutor who could be unlawfully...
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Crime and Justice News
- Jan 19
- 2 min
AZ Students Help Develop Database For Crime Scene Shoe Print ID
A collaboration between Grand Canyon University forensic science students and the Phoenix Police Department Crime Lab generated a new...
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Crime and Justice News
- Jan 19
- 2 min
Complexities Of Human Trafficking Make Cases Difficult To Prove
The Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act is supposed to help women, many of them new and sometimes undocumented immigrants....
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Crime and Justice News
- Jan 19
- 1 min
Global Crypto Founder Arrested For Processing $700M in Illicit Funds
Federal authorities in Miami arrested the majority owner and founder of a global cryptocurrency exchange after he allegedly helped...
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Crime and Justice News
- Jan 19
- 2 min
Prosecutors: NM Man Who Led Dems' Home Shootings Is A Danger
Prosecutors say Solomon Peña, a failed GOP candidate accused of orchestrating a series of drive-by shootings at the homes of Democratic...
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Crime and Justice News
- Jan 19
- 2 min
DNA Evidence, Google Searches On Dead Bodies Back MA Murder Case
DNA evidence that links Ana Walshe, a missing Cohasset, Ma., woman to bloody clothes and shoes left in a dumpster have led the state to...
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Crime and Justice News
- Jan 18
- 2 min
Why FBI Didn't Monitor Searches For Biden Classified Documents
The Justice Department considered having FBI agents monitor a search by President Biden’s lawyers for classified documents at his homes...
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