Crime and Punishment : Everything tagged "incarceration"

Mr. Jackson is on a mission to protect drug addicts from HIV, for which he tested positive in 1990 after sharing needles to shoot heroin and crack cocaine.

A measure that would decriminalize minor marijuana-possession cases is on the ballot in Massachusetts largely because of one man: billionaire financier and liberal activist George Soros.

A state judge has ordered a hearing into the accusation by a condemned man that his murder trial was tainted by a love affair between the judge and the prosecutor.

Capitol Police arrested a man Fri after they found a grenade and several weapons in his car several blocks from Capitol building. Christopher Shelton Timmons, 27, of Orange, Va., was charged

Federal News Radio - Venezuelan authorities have captured a former Colombian senator wanted on charges of conspiring with paramilitaries to kidnap a reputed political rival.

Rep. Charles Rangel paid no mortgage interest on a beach resort property for about 15 years, a lawyer for the powerful House committee chairman said Friday.

A former colleague of the US Vice-President, Dick Cheney, has pleaded guilty to funnelling millions of dollars in bribes to win lucrative contracts in Nigeria for Halliburton, during the period in the Nineties when Mr Cheney ran the giant oil and gas

Information from wire service reports and the Chicago Police Major Incidents log indicated that 123 people were shot and killed throughout the city between the start of Memorial Day weekend on May 26, and the end of Labor Day on Sept. 1.

FROM THE moment US military and civilian officials began detaining and interrogating Guantanamo Bay prisoners with methods that the Red Cross has called tantamount to torture, they have had the assistance of psychologists. This has been a source of anguis