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In 2006, National Football League players were arrested or cited at least 71 times for various alleged crimes. The problem got so bad that the league cracked down after hiring Roger Goodell as commissioner that August. Another surge of criminal cases disrupted the league in...
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“We’re taking a leap,” said Scott Erfe, the warden of the super-max Cheshire Correctional Institution in central Connecticut.
The inmates seem to agree the leap is worthwhile.
In a live-streamed interview Wednesday, young men who have been living most of this year in a special, insular unit...
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The Washington state Supreme Court unanimously struck down the death penalty as unconstitutional Thursday, ruling the state’s 37-year-old capital-punishment law “invalid because it is imposed in an arbitrary and racially biased manner.” The ruling in the appeal by murderer Allen Gregory means he and seven...
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FBI employees stationed in cities across Asia have been recalled to Washington while the agency investigates allegations related to parties and interactions with prostitutes, reports the Wall Street Journal. The Justice Department’s inspector general is examining the allegations, which involve FBI personnel in six cities....
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President Trump has at least five candidates as his new attorney general on the assumption that Jeff Sessions will leave his post this year, the Wall Street Journal reports. The list includes Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, Transportation Department general counsel Steven Bradbury,...
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Women confined in the Perryville prison at Goodyear, AZ., say the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC) is not giving them enough toilet paper to live clean, hygienic lives.
Perryville State Prison complex. Photo courtesy Arizona Department of Corrections
Prison authorities have officially denied the charge, but a...