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Crime 'harms middle-age health'
Researchers from Cardiff and Texas universities looked at data on 400 men who have been followed since childhood. They found offenders were more likely to be hospitalised and were 13 times more likely to be disabled. The researchers had earlier found
Updated: 11/10/2011 08:28P
Statement of Associate Attorney General Thomas J. Perrelli Before the Senate
According to a nationwide survey funded by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), one third of all American Indian women will be raped during their lifetimes. And an NIJ-funded analysis of death certificates found that, on some reservations,
Updated: 11/10/2011 07:50P
Senate passes three-strike law for violent felons
“The people who will deal in death and administer death to others will be dealt with accordingly,” Senate President Therese Murray said after casting her vote in support of the legislation. “I'm very proud of this body.” The bill passed with the family
Updated: 11/10/2011 07:46P
Report assailed on paying legal costs of civil servants
The government has come under fire for a report by University of British Columbia president Stephen Toope that outlines a new policy for paying the legal costs of civil servants facing criminal charges. The UBC law professor was asked for policy
Updated: 11/10/2011 07:42P
Mass. Senate passes crime bill with changes to parole system
Current law limits the use of wiretapping to organized crime cases. The law would also be updated to capture text messages and other electronic communications. Governor Deval Patrick fired the five parole board members earlier this year after Woburn
Updated: 11/10/2011 07:41P
Mass. Senate OKs tightening parole eligibility
It also updates the state wiretapping laws to include text messages and other electronic communications and reduces the area considered to be a school zone from 1000 feet to 500 feet to allow for tougher sentences for selling drugs.
Updated: 11/10/2011 07:38P
Are We About To Betray The Palestinians, Again? - OpEd
They must bring to an end Israel's infringements of international criminal law through the prosecution of international crimes, including the crimes of apartheid and persecution.” All states are called upon to “consider appropriate measures to exert
Updated: 11/10/2011 07:26P
Senators To Obama, DHS: Stop Ignoring Illegal Alien Sanctuaries – OpEd
In battling local immigration control measures nationwide, the Obama Department of Justice has claimed that they conflict with federal immigration law and undermine the government's careful balance of immigration enforcement priorities and objectives,
Updated: 11/10/2011 07:23P
State targets relatives who aid fugitives
Silverstein said the new measure, introduced this week, was prompted by a recent Chicago Tribune investigation, "Fugitives from Justice," which highlighted flaws in the criminal justice system that enable fugitives to flee the country after committing
Updated: 11/10/2011 07:09P
Atuche, associate urge court to quash charges
Besides, he added that the EFCC, acting for the Attorney-General of the Federation, can only prosecute a crime under a Federal Law, and not the Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State. The lawyer argued that there was no prima facie case
Updated: 11/10/2011 06:43P
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