Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on March 20, 2012 at 2:10pm —
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March 15, 2012
Peggy King Cordele Dispatch…
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As state governments wrestle with massive budget shortfalls, a…
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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on March 18, 2012 at 4:34pm —
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Private Prison Company to Demand 90% Occupancy
Thursday, February 16, 2012
The nation’s largest private prison company is offering cash-strapped state…
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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on March 18, 2012 at 4:26pm —
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Iron Boy Promotions Brings you Emilo Colon Garcia vs Jesse "The Razor" Ruiz... for more info or Tix visit us www.ironboypromotions.com the fight of the year 2012 get your tickets and be there
pro fight April 21, 2012 in Phoenix, AZ at Celebrity Theatre vs Emelio Garcia... get your…
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An Internet meme with potentially risky consequences is sweeping the Web. The question is, can the brutal 'cinnamon challenge' be potentially fatal as well?
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Monday, March 05, 2012 07:50
When Kids Commit Crimes
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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on March 6, 2012 at 6:26pm —
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In the age of texting, e-mail, Facebook and other forms of communication that teens have available, it can be hard for parents to keep up with all those cryptic abbreviations. But your child's life might depend on you deciphering them. Would you know what "robotripping on DXM" would mean? Or why April 20 is significant to kids who use drugs? Many of today's parents were raised in the era of Just Say No, and while schools still teach that concept,…
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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on March 6, 2012 at 6:19pm —
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Health officials in Casper, Wyo., are investigating an outbreak of kidney failure linked to a batch of synthetic marijuana known as “spice.”
Three people were hospitalized Friday and two more were treated and released from a hospital in the eastern Wyoming city of 55,000 residents.
The patients, all in their teens and early 20s, reported vomiting, back pain and stomach pain. Officials are investigating reports of…
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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on March 6, 2012 at 6:09pm —
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As former Los Angeles drug kingpin
"Freeway" Rick Ross awaits the
trial in his publicity rights case against rapper
Rick Ross, he spoke with The BoomBox about
his upcoming… Continue
Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on March 2, 2012 at 2:30pm —
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Former Los Angeles drug kingpin "Freeway" Rick Ross continues to seek justice in his case against rapper Rick Ross, whom he claims is unlawfully profiting from his name and reputation.
After the lawsuit was…
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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on March 2, 2012 at 2:30pm —
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2-month 'Operation Street Sweeper' a success for LCSO
LEE COUNTY, Fla.- Lee County Sheriff Mike Scott entered 2012 with the resolve to send a clear message to Lee County felons: "Stop plying your illegal trade on our highways and streets."
In an aggressive, two-month, multi-level approach, detectives with the Sheriff’s Office Narcotics, P.I.L.S. (Pharmaceutical Investigations Law Enforcement Strategy), Vice, Highway Interdiction and…
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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on March 1, 2012 at 3:07pm —
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Former gang members work to prevent repeat of violence…
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Corrections Officials Ill-Prepared to Run Geriatric Facilities
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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on March 1, 2012 at 1:14pm —
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The Gray Box: An investigative look at solitary confinement
A few weeks ago, on the fifteenth anniversary of his first day in prison, Osiel Rodriguez set about cleaning the 87 square feet he inhabits at ADX, a federal mass isolation facility in Colorado.
“I got it in my head to destroy all my photographs,” he writes in a letter to me. “I spent some five hours ripping each one to pieces. No one was safe. I did not save one of my mother, father, sisters. Who…
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Added by Lucinda F. Boyd on March 1, 2012 at 1:06pm —
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The Gray Box": An Investigation of Solitary Confinement in U.S. Prisons
Screen shot from "The Gray Box," via the Dart Society
The box. That's the name for the solitary confinement cell where as many as 80,000 U.S. prisoners live in seclusion.
A new multi-media report by the Dart…
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Sunday, February 19, 2012 04:27
Profiting from Prisons
A man opposes private prisons at an Occupy protest in Valdosta, GA.
Photo by faul, via Flickr.
Early this year, the United Methodist Church Board of Pension and Health Benefits voted to withdraw nearly $1 million in stocks…
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Monday, February 27, 2012 04:59
The World’s ‘Murder Capital,’ Transformed
Juarez Municipal Police have seen a decrease in crime after employing such tactics as stop-and-frisk, often employed in New York City.
Photo by Joseph J. Kolb
Juarez, the Mexican border city once…
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