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The end of the line for Tennessee’s Brushy Mountain penitentiary came in 2009, when the state closed the century-old facility. The local landmark sat unused until Pete Waddington came upon it and hatched a plan to turn the 280-acre site into a distillery, with a...
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A Virginia juvenile and domestic relations judge has been removed from the bench by the Virginia Supreme Court after he admitted contacting two key witnesses in a pending federal corruption case against his wife, the Washington Post reports. Kurt Pomrenke, 64, was elected to the...
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The St. Anthony, Mn., City Council, facing “threatened litigation,” has voted to pay Diamond Reynolds and her young daughter a $675,000 settlement in connection with the police shooting of Philando Castile, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports. Reynolds will receive another $125,000 from the League of...
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New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex maintains a “culture of violence” among both inmates and staff, despite efforts to improve conditions at the storied correctional facility, says a court-mandated study reported by NPR. The report said staff on the island “relish confrontation” with inmates,...
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The following is a series of questions on the occasion of the publication of Ronald Collins and David Skover’s “The Judge: 26 Machiavellian Lessons” (Oxford University Press, 2017). Drawing from over 200 years of Supreme Court history, Collins and Skover offer 26 lessons – e.g.,...
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The Virginia parole board is changing how it interprets the state’s three-strikes law in a way that could free hundreds of inmates – many of them nonviolent – who are serving prison terms significantly longer than the typical first-degree murderer, the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot reports. The...