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The Shocking Ways the Corporate Prison Industry Games the System
Just a decade ago, private prisons were a dying industry awash in corruption and mired in lawsuits, particularly Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation's largest private prison operator. Today, these companies are booming once again,
Updated: 11/30/2011 01:06A
Jackson case highlights celebrity medicine culture
(AP Photo/Reed Saxon) A man shouts with joy after hearing the sentencing of Dr. Conrad Murray, the doctor convicted in the overdose death of singer Michael Jackson, at the Los Angeles Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011.
Updated: 11/30/2011 01:01A
Eddy Neumann Lawyers | `Beyond reasonable doubt¿: the criminal standard of
In Keely v Mr Justice Brooking (1979) 143 CLR 162; 25 ALR 45 Barwick CJ said: “Adherence to the well understood standard of proof in the trial of criminal offences is quite adequate to protect the individual charges summarily with contempt of court.
Updated: 11/30/2011 12:55A
Workshop on laws and rights
Why Citizens Should Know Constitutional and Criminal Law' on December 3. The one-day workshop aims at introducing citizens to laws. One will be exposed to the essential principles and provisions of laws so that they can use it as a sword to safeguard
Updated: 11/30/2011 12:34A
250 arrests, 147 guns tallied in 2011 Mahoning Valley anti-crime initiative
“Every single federal and state law-enforcement agency involved here demonstrated over and over again that they care only about getting guns and criminals off the streets — not about turf,” he said. “This is really the anti-turf effort because nobody
Updated: 11/30/2011 12:27A
Gbagbo flies to the Hague to stand trial for Ivorian abuses
Bourthoumieux said Ivorian justice authorities showed Gbagbo the arrest warrant on Tuesday morning in the northern town of Korhogo, where he has been under house arrest for the past seven months. Gbagbo's Paris-based adviser Toussaint Alain said in an
Updated: 11/30/2011 12:07A
Prosecutors hail revision of bias law
RALEIGH The state's prosecutors and Republican lawmakers rejoiced at Monday's Senate vote to repeal the heart of the Racial Justice Act. Now attention turns to the governor. In 2009, Gov. Bev Perdue signed the bill into law in a public
Updated: 11/30/2011 12:05A
The legislature's move to repeal the Racial Justice Act doesn't mean
The state Senate's vote this week to erase North Carolina's Racial Justice Act of 2009 won't end the state's de facto moratorium on executions. The unofficial moratorium started in January 2007 in a legal fight in state and federal
Updated: 11/29/2011 11:58P
Commissioners back sex offender ordinance
The ordinance notation concerning burglary of a habitation refers to state criminal law that describes the crime as a first-degree felony if any party to the offense entered a dwelling with the intent to commit a felony other than felony theft or
Updated: 11/29/2011 11:51P
Should the Village of Park Forest Decriminalize Marijuana?
People caught with less than 10 grams would be ticketed and fined, but would face no jail time and no criminal record. Currently, they would have been charged with a misdemeanor and faced up to six months in jail. In my five-years-plus reading police
Updated: 11/29/2011 11:41P
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