All Blog Posts Tagged 'prison' (18)

In Prisons, Sky-High Phone Rates and Money Transfer Fees…

A 31-year-old local rapper who gained international acclaim for his gritty songs detailing drug dealing, violence and a no-snitch mantra was sentenced Wednesday to 14 years in federal prison for gun possession and witness tampering. Christopher Dorsey, better known as B.G. or Baby Gangsta, was an original member of the 1990s rap super group the Hot Boys. His most recent…

from Marty Tankleff

Dear All:

On December 27, 2007, I was released from prison after being wrongfully imprisoned for 6,338 days. This is my first Thanksgiving since I've been free and it's amazing. Many of you here have helped me along the way and I have no doubt that many will continue to help me and my family fight for justice. For that I want to thank you. I especially want to thank: Stephen Braga, Barry Pollack, Jennifer O'Connor, Bruce Barket, Lonnie Soury, Rick Friedman,…

(Utah Department of Corrections courtesy photo) Cindy Chatterson, center, beams as as staff, officers, friends and family gather at a graduation program Wednesday for the prison's ExCell substance abuse program. Also shown are Stacy Westfahl, left, and Amy Pehrson, right.

Substance-abuse program in prison changing women’s lives

30.4% of inmates who participate in ExCell return to prison, compared to 42.6% who don’t.

By Brooke Adams | The Salt Lake Tribune

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Susan Wright re-sentenced to 20 years in prison for husband's murder . by Kevin Reece / 11 News

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Posted on November 1, 2010 at 4:40 PM

Updated Tuesday, Nov 2 at 9:02 PM

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Corrections Officials Ill-Prepared to Run Geriatric Facilities

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Changing The Youth:The New Revolution....

Change is the most wishful word in the English language. It evoke feeling of hope. Strong possibilities and endless…

You strip me from my freedom

Another Call to Be Maladjusted -

Throughout the course of human history, time and time again, civilizations have enacted laws and sanctioned social policies that have exploited and oppressed men, women, and children for their inalienable rights. They have been tortured with the tactics of…

For far too long we have accepted and nourished a culture that systematically devalues the importance of our children reaching their maximal development.

A culture that pretends to believe that our Nation's children will fulfill their potential in dilapidated, unsafe schools with out dated curriculum's and equipment. A culture that designed the minds, the ideas and the motives of two Pennsylvania Court Judges, Mark A. Ciavarella Jr., and Micheal…

PONTIAC, Mich. -- A Detroit-area woman who pleaded guilty to having sex with the biological son she gave up for adoption and later tracked down on the Internet has been sentenced nine years to 30 years in prison.

Thirty-six-year-old Aimee L. Sword of Waterford Township apologized at her sentencing Monday in Oakland County Circuit Court. She had pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree…