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Managing to the short-term, managing to self-interest and hoping for a "happily ever after." It's beginning to feel a bit like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
The culture of a police department determines the extent of misconduct, and this certainly applies to Newark, NJ.
In 1997, as tends to happen on the internet, someone did something bad: they set up an account posing as an AOL billing representative, and emailed thousands of people with a simple request.
Let's start changing our lock-up facilities into places that actually cause inmates to change their behavior -- so that when they leave them they never go back.
Kylie Thompson is a University Chic blogger and an undergrad at Harvard University. Finance major? Accounting whiz? Tech geek? In the past these fie...
Viva Riva! is the first film out of the Congo to get U.S. distribution, and director Djo Tunda Wa Munga has made it a hell of an introduction.
After a robbery, two men mistook the powder in the urn and the container they stole for cocaine... and allegedly snorted the ashes of the woman's father and her two Great Danes.
As far as statements go, Raymond Clark's was a pretty complete exposition of guilt and remorse. But Annie Le's mother wanted more -- she wanted to know why.
Saying the US criminal system is racist may be politically controversial in some circles. But the facts are overwhelming. There's no real debate about that. Here's why.
Before summer officially begins, Chicago is dealing with more than just a spike in temperatures. It seems as if hot weather brings some of the wrong p...
In the criminal justice system, there are two separate but equally important groups: the attorneys and the crooks themselves, some of whom are really stupid. These are their stories.
As much as the details of Felicia Lee's life and death would seem sensational enough for widespread media coverage, unlike Annie Le's murder, Lee's has largely failed to capture the public's imagination.
On Independence Day, somebody somehow slipped a pill into my wine glass at a dinner dance, and I left about three minutes before it really hit. Date rape drugs are a weapon.
Unless we drastically reform our spending priorities, and move toward "smart on crime" policies, our City on the Hill will continue to resemble Rikers Island instead of the Library of Alexandria.
Gruesome murder, once exclusively a man's game, is now the province of horrifying ladies.
Wal-Mart workers and one bystander held Patrick Donovan down, while one leaned on his back and another held down his arms and head.
Healing from sexual assault is very difficult, especially when your friends and family not only invalidate your claims but blame you for being raped. Victim blaming, however, is a huge part of our culture.
This is a love story about a quadriplegic woman named Sarah and a heroin addict named Rick grappling with the consequences of conviction under California's Three Strikes Law.
How do you wind up in prison serving two life terms for a robbery that netted 11 dollars? That question has haunted first time offenders Gladys and Jamie Scott for the past 15 years.
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