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Crime & Punishment: Out of Control Bridgeport Man Attacks Police Officer With an Urn
For the last six years, Republican state legislators have put together an alternative budget to the one presented and usually enacted by Democrats, who have strong majorities in both houses of the legislature. This year, however, the GOP declined to offer...
Tags: Elections, Winsted, Politics, Racism, Crime, Law and Justice
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Man with 'Cop Killa' tattoo charged with threatening police
An ex-convict with "Cop Killa" tattooed below his left eye has been charged with making 911 calls threatening to shoot and kill police officers in the Ogden District on the West Side, authorities said. Antonio A. Hammond, 27, is also accused of calling...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Explosions, Prosecution, Emergency Incidents
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Egypt army sends reinforcements to Sinai after kidnapping
ReutersEL-ARISH, Egypt (Reuters) - Egypt's army sent reinforcements into the Sinai Peninsula on Monday after President Mohamed Mursi said there would be no talks with militant Islamists who have abducted seven members of the security forces. A military official...Tags: Kidnapping, Armed Forces, Wars and Interventions, Politics, Mohamed Morsi
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Knox County Commission to consider plan to crack down on underage beer sales
Knoxville News SentinelKnox County commissioners hope what they call a simple proposal will help deter the sale of beer to minors. The plan? To require those who serve or sell it to sign a form that notes the criminal penalties for breaking the law. "I want them to know...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Labor Legislation, Laws, Career and Workplace
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Eritrean youth face most harrowing atrocities: activist
Sudan TribuneRenowned Eritrean activist Meron Estefanos has told an international conference in Oslo that of all the atrocities taking place in the repressive Red Sea nation, the plight of its youth is the most harrowing. In an eloquent and quietly emotive speech at...Tags: Oslo (Norway), Civil and Public Service, Africa, Human Rights, Politics
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No clear source of funding for corrections changes
Herald-Times, Bloomington, Ind.Changes in Indiana law that will require judges to sentence low-level, nonviolent offenders to local treatment and counseling programs instead of jail starting next year has universal support, but no clear source of funding. A years-long rewriting of...Tags: Lawyers, Crime, Law and Justice, Prisons, Justice System, Punishment
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In Kansas, it's lawmakers versus the courts
The Kansas City StarKansas lawmakers began the year turning away the chief justice of the state Supreme Court from his traditional speech to the Legislature. The legislative session nears an end with the chief justice accusing a leading senator with political coercion....Tags: Lawyers, Elections, Sam Brownback, U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, Justice System
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Niantic prison would get nursery for inmates' infants under proposal
The Day, New London, Conn.A proposal to create a nursery for infants of women inmates at York Correctional Institution has gotten cautious endorsement from two legislative committees, but lawmakers want to know why the price tag is as much as $14 million over two years. Right...Tags: Lawyers, Waterbury, Prisons, Justice System, Prosecution
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Former Watertown man gets prison sentence for forged checks
Watertown Daily Times, N.Y.A former Watertown man was sentenced Friday in Jefferson County Court to up to three years in state prison for trying to possess forged checks. George J. Lewis, 32, Barneveld, was sentenced to 1 1/2 to 3 years in prison after an April 10 guilty plea...Tags: Prisons, Justice System, Punishment, Watertown, Sexual Misconduct
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Post-realignment arrests down, lower in San Bernardino County
San Bernardino County Sun, Calif.Fewer offenders released from state prison after the implementation of Gov. Jerry Brown's Prison Realignment have been rearrested and conviction rates for the same group of offenders have remained virtually the same, according to a new study from the...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Prisons, Jerry Brown, Police Arrests
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Is county jail large enough?
The Record, Stockton, Calif.In the years since San Joaquin County headed on a tack to expand the jail, crime rates in the county and booking rates at the jail have been on the decline, according to a report released last week. Those trends and recommended changes to incarcerate...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Dwayne Johnson, Prisons, Punishment, American Civil Liberties Union
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Sex offenders seek safe haven at mobile home park
LEALMAN - When a 75-year-old man was fatally stabbed at the Palace Mobile Home Park last month, residents were shocked. The slaying was out of character for this community of 80 mobile homes, spread out behind a liquor store and used merchandise shop in...
Tags: Prisons, Dwayne Johnson, Punishment, Pinellas County (Florida), Sexual Assault
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