Why we must reduce the prison population rather than build new prisons: The justice secretary Liz Truss has published a new bill to reform the prison and court system in England and Wales. The Prisons and Courts Bill proposes new laws emphasising audits and league tables of prisons and a legal responsibility for both prison …
Inmates escape, grab some stuff, sneak back into prison — for years: Inmates trying to break out of prison is nothing new. But inmates breaking out, then breaking right back in? It's apparently been happening for years at a federal facility in Atlanta. : Weird News Nova Scotia reviewing bizarre liquor laws that date back …
Weird 49 mins ago 9:47 a.m.Convicted cannibal cop killer found dead in prison: An Italian man sentenced to life in prison for strangling a British police officer to death during a sex game and then cooking and eating parts of his body has died in jail, according to British media. According to one report, in …
South Africa in the news: South Africa’s Zuma: ‘I do not fear prison’: A defiant South African President Jacob Zuma says he doesn’t fear prison days after an anti-graft watchdog released a report recommending a judicial probe into alleged corruption. The “State of Capture” report, which stopped short of saying crimes had …: “South Africa” …
A Breyten Breytenbach video production – Breyten Breytenbach and Georges Lory reading “A Man is in Prison” by Abdellatif Laabi: Breyten Breytenbach and Georges Lory reading “A Man is in Prison” by Abdellatif Laabi during a precursor for the Dancing in Other Words Spier Poetry Festival (9-10 May) at an event hosted by Breytenbach and …
The two former Republican Michigan state representatives caught up in a crazy sex scandal are back in the headlines again, but this time they are each facing up to 15 years in prison. Todd Courser and Cindy Gamrat were both removed from office late last year. Weird News –