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Christian Poveda: French Filmmaker Killed In El Salvador; 1 Arrested

AP | MARCOS ALEMAN | Posted 10.19.2009 | World


SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — A French filmmaker who spent years documenting the brutality and desperation of a Salvadoran street gang has been fo...

America's 10 Cushiest Prisons

ABC News | ASHER HAWKINS | Posted 08.18.2009 | Home


It's looking like a lifetime sentence at one of the nation's cushiest prisons for world-class fraudster Bernard Madoff. The record-setting scammer is ...

States pull back after decades of get-tough laws

AP | DEBORAH HASTINGS | Posted 05.05.2009 | Home


For the last four decades, the laws of the land were all about dropping the hammer on crime by locking away criminals for a very long time. Some carr...