Edmonton Rapist Caught: Rape victim helps nab suspect
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Edmonton Rapist Caught: Rape victim helps nab suspect

Opinion Barry Artiste, Now Public Contributor Yeah, well Charged with the brutal rape of a 17 year old girl, 28-year-old Abdikarim Mohamed Firin can be sure to have many reasons why he did it. Of course once in...
created by Barry Artiste | 1 day ago | updated 1 day ago
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Dogs bust inmates using cell phones to carry out crimes

"HAGERSTOWN, Maryland (CNN) -- Chante Wright was set to testify against a career criminal when she was gunned down on the streets of Philadelphia in January. Investigators believe it was a hit ordered from prison, by an inmate using a cell phone. ...
highlighted by master_jim2008 | 2 days ago
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More prisoners join hunger strike in Maafushi Jail in the Maldives
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More prisoners join hunger strike in Maafushi Jail in the Maldives

"Three of the prisoners in Maafushi jail, who were part of a bigger group that had dwindled down to the lone trio after starting a hunger strike on Friday, were joined by more prisoners on Sunday. Twenty of the 200...
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highlighted by BadrNaseem | 2 days ago | updated 2 days ago
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We love Gary Glitter!
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Gary Glitter's Teenage Conquests Scrap Over Which One Will Marry Him

As disgraced ex-pop star, Gary Glitter anticipates his release for child sex offences in Vietnam, it has been revealed that the two girls he groomed, for which he was gaoled, aged 11 and 13 at the time, are now in an...
highlighted by Christina 123 | 4 days ago | updated 4 days ago
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Dyslexic doctor has overseen 40 executions

A 50 cent bullet to the back of the head is actually a more humane way to be executed, the condemed won't even feel the bullet enter, like they would various needles used in lethal injection. It's cheaper, totally painless and instant, unlike those botched executions you hear...
highlighted by master_jim2008 | 4 days ago
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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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highlighted by amyjudd | 6 days ago
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Gary Glitter 'returns to UK next week'

Former glam rocker Gary Glitter, who has been in prison in Vietnam for child molestation, is apparently being released early under a national amnesty and returned to the UK, where he is a citizen."Gary Glitter will...
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highlighted by Dave Keating | 1 wk ago | updated 1 wk ago
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In Ohio, Inmate Mothers Care For Babies In Prison

Although this can be a common practice in other countries, in the States, it is less common for mothers to raise children when they are behind bars themselves.In Ohio, at the Reformatory for Women, about 12 babies are currently growing up in a cell as their mothers are all...
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highlighted by amyjudd | 1 wk ago
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Five Times Denied: No Parole for John Lennon's Killer

There will be no parole for Mark David Chapman, the man who killed songwriter John Lennon twenty-eight years ago. Chapman was denied parole for the fifth time on Tuesday, as New York's parole board declared that he...
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highlighted by Jarrett Martineau | 1 wk ago | updated 1 wk ago
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Man charged in rape, slaying of Florida girl, 6

"TAMPA, Florida (AP) -- A man already in prison for burglary and stealing a car was charged Tuesday in the rape and slaying of a 6-year-old southwest Florida girl nearly two years ago, police said. ...
highlighted by master_jim2008 | 1 wk ago
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John Lennon's killer denied bail
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John Lennon's killer denied bail

8th December 1980.  Just a normal day for John Lennon, in his adopted home of New York - a morning being photographed by Annie Liebovitz, then the plan of an evening in the recording studio.  A mixing...
created by mchawk | 1 wk ago | updated 1 wk ago
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Electron Microscope Coloured DNA Strand on Black
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Man Freed By DNA Review After 18 Years

This article is about a man that was released from prison after 18 years because he was cleared by DNA evidence. This brings up a topic about the wrongful convinctions of innocent men to prison and even death. It has...
highlighted by Gh0s7 | 1 wk ago | updated 1 wk ago
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'Texas 7' member volunteers to be executed

Michael Rodriguez worked for a year to convince the courts he was competent to drop his appeals and volunteer for the death penalty, and this Thursday he will get his wish.He says he feels remorse for his involvement in a violent prison break and crime spree that saw one...
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highlighted by Rob Peters | 1 wk ago | updated 1 wk ago
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Youth sentenced to life for knife murder of schoolboy

A 16 year old was today sentenced to life in prison for murdering a 14-year-old boy. The sentence is one of the longest handed out for a youth in the UK."A 16-year-old youth was today sentenced to life for murdering the schoolboy Martin Dinnegan last June. Joseph Chin will...
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highlighted by Dave Keating | 1 wk ago | updated 1 wk ago
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Secret court may jail Burma comic Maung Thura for helping Cyclone Nargis victims
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Secret court may jail Burma comic Maung Thura for helping Cyclone Nargis victims

Burma's most popular comedian, Maung Thura who is well known as Zarganar faces 20 years in Rangoon’s notorious Insein prison for helping Cyclone Nargis victims in the Irrawaddy delta " The repressive and...
highlighted by sweet east pearl | 1 wk ago | updated 1 wk ago
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