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• Alarmed and dangerous

  
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  Theres more to this correction than the local fishwrap lets on. Heres what appears to be the relevant sentence from the online version of Mondays story : The security was needed because Michiganders at a state auction of drilling lands last year became violent — “one guy pulled a gun” — and officers ...
  6 days ago

• Department of Corrections reinstates early release program

  
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  There was a time in Illinois when inmates could get released from state prison in only days. It was the era of “dress-in-dress-out.” Those days are long gone, but the state penitentiary has re-instituted another form of early release. The new early release program has caused confusion in courtrooms throughout the ...
  1 week ago

• Teen Went to Jail for Throwing a Steak, and Other Injustices Paid for By Private Prisons

  
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  I have watched almost every episode of Law & Order, including the UK version. I learned a lot of things, like always ask for a lawyer, even if you’re not guilty and, when visiting New York City, never look behind trucks or dumpsters because you will always find a dead body. I also knew that [...]
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• The Phil Spector School of Rock, at The Rock.

  
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  Corcoran State Prison, CA —In this tough prison there are few bright spots.  Charles Manson, Sirhan Sirhan and many other convicted criminals who have committed despicable crimes wait here to simply die.    Most other inmates will quickly get out and the rate of return is astronomical. Of course they destroy ...
  1 week ago

• Nathan Dunlap Case Developments

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 153
  The Clemency Petition and all supporting documents are available through the Office of the Federal Public Defender. The Denver Post reports, "Nathan Dunlap lawyers challenge Colorado execution procedures, secrecy," by Karen Augé. Attorneys for condemned killer Nathan Dunlap filed a...
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• Mason man graduates Hamilton Co. Corrections Academy

  
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  Joshua S. Noel of Mason graduated this month from the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office Basic Corrections Academy. Noel (pictured top row, third from right) is among 29 graduates in the class, which held its graduation May 2 at Memorial Hall. The class is the first Corrections Academy class since Sheriff Jim Neil ...
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• Kidnapper Ariel Castro Could Have Never Lived In Mister Rogers Neighborhood!

  
  Lance Scurvin — Authority: 140
  Much has been said about the three young ladies who were kidnapped by that sick individual in Cleveland for ten years in his house without anyone who lived around them ever having a clue. Could this have happened in Mister Rogers Neighborhood? NEVER! Even with a neighbor with a creepy sounding pedophile-like name like ...
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• Prisons report

  
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  In an article earlier this week we misattributed remarks about the complaints process in prison to Debra Baldwin, an official with the Ministry of Justice. We are happy to point out that the words were not hers.        
  1 week ago

• Advice for editors: Stand for accuracy and accountability

  
  Pursuing the Complete Community Connection — Authority: 478
  This continues a series on advice for new top editors in Digital First Media newsrooms. The Digital First editor needs to lead the staff in mastering the art of reporting the unfolding story accurately. Your staff needs to understand that getting-it-first and getting-it-right are not conflicting choices but ...
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• Michigans New Prison Food Contractor Has Checkered History

  
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  Aramark, the company Michigan officials have selected to provide meals for about 45,000 state prisoners, has skimped on food and overbilled corrections departments in other states, according to audit reports. For the full article, see Paul Egan, "Michigans new prison food contractor accused of skimping on size and ...
  1 week ago

• MDOC new prison food services contractor Aramark Corporation accused of skimming inmate meals, overbilling services

  
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  Photo Credit - Circuit9.blogspot.comIndependent Underground News & Talk Op/Ed Opinions about inmates serving time in the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) would be mixed with a... Visit "IU News & Talk" right now to read more of this story!
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• California presents “ugly” plan to comply with court order to reduce inmate population

  
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  California’s top prison official has submitted an “ugly” plan to comply with a federal court’s order to reduce the state’s prison population to 137.5% of design capacity by...
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• Nathan Dunlap Apologizes, Seeks Commutation of Sentence

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 153
  "Nathan Dunlap attorneys seek clemency for Chuck E. Cheese killer," is Karen Augés Denver Post report. After trying, so far unsuccessfully, to stop his execution in the courts, attorneys for Nathan Dunlap have formally asked Gov. John Hickenlooper to spare...
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• New York Times acknowledges ‘Megadeath’ mistake in Jeff Hanneman obit

  
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  The New York Times William Yardley’s May 3 obituary for Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman now sports a correction that will make many metalheads happy: An obituary on Saturday about the guitarist Jeff Hanneman, a founder of the band Slayer, misspelled … Read more
  1 week ago

• Transcript: Press briefing Q&A with California Corrections Secretary Jeffrey Beard on the state’s new plan to reduce prison population – May 3, 2013

  
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  Transcript of press briefing Q&A with Jeffrey Beard, Secretary of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, on the state’s new plan to reduce prison population to meet...
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• Transcript: California Corrections Secretary Jeffrey Beard’s remarks on the state’s new plan to reduce prison population – May 3, 2013

  
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  Transcript of press briefing remarks by Jeffrey Beard, Secretary of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, on the state’s new plan to reduce prison population to meet...
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• Calls for Clemency in Colorado

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 153
  The Boulder Daily Camera publishes an editorial, "Clemency for Nathan Dunlap." Its written by Erika Stutzman for the Camera editorial board. The Camera editorial board wants the governor to commute Dunlaps sentence to life in prison with no chance of...
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• How Lee Harvey Oswald Fucked Up Television History

  
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  My first piece for The AV Club ran last Friday.  It’s a look at the ritual of preempting or editing television shows in the aftermath of tragedies like the Boston Marathon bombing – a ritual that extends back at least as far as the murder of John F. Kennedy.  (That’s Martin Milner above, in the strange  ...
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• Cellphone Charger

  
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  Danielle da Silva, 42 years old, was arrested on Saturday (4), when trying to enter the city’s public Jail of Bayeux, in the metropolitan region of João Pessoa, with a cell phone, charger, marijuana, crack and lighter inside the vagina. She was surprised by agents of the State Department of Corrections (Seap) for ...
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• Movement on the Death Penalty

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 153
  Thats the title of an editorial in todays New York Times. On Thursday, Gov. Martin O’Malley of Maryland signed a law making life without parole the state’s maximum sentence, repealing the death penalty after more than 300 years. Maryland is...
  2 weeks ago

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