Study Shows Severe Inequity In Courtrooms
WASHINGTON — A new study shows that federal judges are handing out widely disparate sentences for similar crimes 30 years after Congress tried t...
WASHINGTON — A new study shows that federal judges are handing out widely disparate sentences for similar crimes 30 years after Congress tried t...
The Huffington Post | Mark Hanrahan | Posted 02.17.2012
An armed robber who a judge branded "amongst the all-time stupidest criminals” has been jailed for his part in a robbery in which the thieves had to...
Dr. Gregory Jantz, Ph.D. | Posted 04.09.2012
Hindsight, they say, is 20-20. I can imagine the second-guessing and shattering waves of if-only experienced by the caring, competent people surrounding both of these cases.
HuffingtonPost.com | Gerry Smith | Posted 01.12.2012
Despite the increased frequency and severity of online crime and espionage in 2011, many American corporations and consumers are still not taking the ...
Cliff Schecter | Posted 10.24.2011
This would be funny if it weren't so pathetic. Listen as the NRA calls someone, tells them Hillary Clinton, Cuba and perhaps Mars is coming to get their guns.
Jorge-Mario Cabrera | Posted 10.22.2011
Now more than ever, we must not stop working with and pressuring Congress and the Obama Administration to pass real, substantive, and long-lasting changes in immigration policy.
Jerry Zezima | Posted 07.26.2011
The crook told the cabbie to ask a cop for directions. The cop recognized the idiotic passenger from a surveillance tape and arrested him. For once a man asked for directions and look what happened.
AP | Posted 06.09.2011
CHESTER, Pa. — Shots rang out in a suburban Philadelphia social hall where a teenage party was being held, killing two people and sending eight ...
AP | JESSIE L. BONNER | Posted 05.25.2011
MARSING, Idaho — For more than a decade, the vast farm fields of rural southwestern Idaho provided Enrico Ponzo the isolation he needed to hide ...
AP | STAN LEHMAN | Posted 05.25.2011
SAO PAULO — A man convicted with imprisoning his daughter and fathering seven children with her was one of the six inmates killed earlier this w...
Posted 05.25.2011
Batman. Spiderman. The Green Hornet. And now, Phoenix Jones. By day, he may be your average Joe. By night, however, one Seattle, Wash. man assumes a ...
AP | ROBERT BARR | Posted 05.25.2011
LONDON — Rioting inmates caused heavy damage to a low-security prison Saturday, smashing windows and setting fires that engulfed buildings and s...
AP | BRIAN SKOLOFF | Posted 05.25.2011
MOBILE, Ala. — A father whose missing children are believed to be dead told investigators he buried one of them in Mississippi and the other in ...
formatmag.com | Posted 05.25.2011
Photographer J.K. Yarnall captures the eeriness of Eastern State Penitentiary in his aptly named portfolio. Yarnall gives us a quick introduction abou...
AP | COREY WILLIAMS | Posted 05.25.2011
FLINT, Mich. — Elias Abuelazam arrived back in Michigan on Thursday shackled, surrounded by a more than a dozen police and wrapped – for h...
AP | CAROLYN THOMPSON | Posted 05.25.2011
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Eight people leaving a party at a downtown Buffalo restaurant were shot early Saturday, four of them fatally, including a Texas ...
The Huffington Post | Curtis M. Wong | Posted 05.25.2011
French lawmakers passed a controversial new bill that will strip criminals born in other countries of their French nationality if convicted of carryin...
AP | THOMAS J. SHEERAN | Posted 05.25.2011
CLEVELAND — Medeia Carter, 33, rented her aging three-story house on East 87th Street with the help of a federal Section 8 rent subsidy. Her so...
AP | MATT VOLZ and JUSTIN JUOZAPAVICIUS | Posted 05.25.2011
HELENA, Mont. — The trail has gone cold in the search for an escaped Arizona inmate and his suspected accomplice, with baffled federal authoriti...
AP | FELICIA FONSECA and P. SOLOMON BANDA | Posted 05.25.2011
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Three convicted murderers escaped a privately run prison in Arizona by using wire cutters that a woman threw over a fence, a ...
AP | THOMAS WATKINS and BOB CHRISTIE | Posted 05.25.2011
LOS ANGELES — A girl who was snatched seven years ago from a Los Angeles-area restaurant was raised by an Arizona couple who kept her out of sch...
AP | RAQUEL MARIA DILLON | Posted 05.25.2011
LOS ANGELES — A man found with "multiple pounds" of marijuana has been arrested in the shooting deaths of three men in a West Hollywood apartmen...
Posted 05.25.2011
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- The man who went on a shooting rampage at a beer distributor calmly told a 911 operator that it was "a racist place" and that ...
Posted 05.25.2011
EVERTON BAILEY JR., Associated Press MANCHESTER, Conn. — Omar Thornton sat calmly in a meeting with union representative and his supervisors as...
AP | AMANDA LEE MYERS | Posted 05.25.2011
PHOENIX — The search for two convicted murderers who escaped from a private prison in northwest Arizona continued Sunday, while a third escaped ...
AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 05.04.2012