Burglar 'moved' by girl's letter

Police in West Yorkshire are using the letter written by a 10 year old girl to the person who burgled her home, to try and encourage known burglars in the area to stop and think of their victims by sending a copy...

Thousands leave Sri Lankan camp - Breaking news

Well today we have some very good news about those so called consentration camps in Sri Lanka. Yes they have started to release the prisoners. None I may add have numbers stamped on their arms and the realesed...

Execution of an Innocent Man in Texas, USA

The unimaginable has happened and it could happen to anyone in the barbaric United States justice system where justice is a myth, Wild West attitudes remain, and the courts are used for political gain, instead of as a fact finder of the truth. The argument for the...

China Internet addict beaten to death in rehab

A sixteen-year-old Chiness teen, Deng Senshan was beaten to death during a treatment for internet addiction.  Three supervisors, who allegedly beat the boy were arrested, and the case is still under...

Nepal child soldiers being freed

A great move to help these children grow up to be peaceful non -violent human beings. i wish every nation that has similar problems could do something like these for the young boys and free them from such burdens, and show them a better way into their future.. Kudos to the...

Sri Lanka captured Canadian

A Canadian is kept in the camps for the former Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam cadres. These camps are different than the detention camps that the Sri Lankan government calls as welfare villages. The Sri Lankan...

Extreme U.S. Incarceration Rates Destroy Economy & Family

The huge incarceration rate in Illinois, where we send non-violent drug abusers and thieves to prison at a rate 40 times greater than any civilized country means that we are breaking our economy. The children of the prisoners are a great social burden when parents don’t...

A way out for Sri Lanka’s child soldiers

" RANJENDRAN HAS the acne and somewhat awkward gait of many a 17-year-old schoolboy. He has already completed is O-Levels and is studying for his A-Level examinations, the local equivalent of the Leaving...

Cebu inmates dance to Jai Ho from Slumdog Millionaire

The Cebu inmates, the dancing prisoners from Cebu in the Philippines who became instant sensations due to their dance to Michael Jackson's Thriller, are back with their lastest mass dance to Jai Ho from Slumdog...

Canada ups aid to Sri Lanka by $3M

" COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Canada is sending another $3-million in foreign aid to Sri Lanka to help the country meet the humanitarian needs of ethnic Tamils displaced by civil war. Bev Oda, the Minister of...

Thousands in tents after '05 Pakistan quake

In a time of great strife and stress with two wars, religious upheaval financial disaster,  we seem to have missed and opportunity to do good.When, in the last eight years so much time, money and human life...

Russians Reinstate Romanov Royal Family - the Last Tzar is a New Ztar

NINETY years after the Bolshevik Rising in 1917 with the annhilation of the Russian Royal Family, a supreme court in the country has now declared the unfortunate family  victims of political repression...

Training for Life's Transitions

It is my firm belief, and has been my personal experience, as well, that in order to get the most out of our lives, and to do the very best we can in this event we call life, we must train for it.Today, my life is in transition. And though the truth is, we are, for the...

Audit body: Bonus to dancing inmates illegal

"CEBU CITY -- Illegal bonuses to prisoners and the unregulated use of government phones were among the alleged lapses that state auditors found in the Cebu Provincial Government’s transactions last year. The Commission on Audit (COA), in its annual report released...

B.C. mothers are not allowed to keep their babies in jail

As reported yesterday on NowPublic, mothers in Ohio prisons are part of a new plan to allow them to keep their children with them in jail. But mothers in British Columbia, Canada, will not have the same privilege.Corrections BC has cancelled a plan today that allowed pregnant...

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