And I remember one page that I read called, “How to Survive in Federal Prison?” written by collaboration of former federal prisoners. And it was amazing, you know, I have [??] reading a page,” [??] you’re going to spend time in the joint.” It’s got great tips and the so...
So there I sat in a county cell thinking they would let me out soon... just to teach me a lesson. Then it became a pure nightmare as I sat for a couple of days while I waited to see the judge. I desperately believed that the powers that be would come to their senses and just ...
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Perhaps I can illustrate this phenomenon by going back to the burglary example of Chapter One. Imagine a case in which the facts are clear that the defendant broke into the victim’s dwelling, in which the facts are also clear that the defendant stole something while in the dwelling, ...
Social-services programs in America spend billions annually to assist disadvantaged populations. In 2019, the year before the pandemic hit, the federal budget devoted about $360 billion to safety-net programs (excluding Social Security benefits and health insurance) for low- and moderate-income indivi...
inmates chose one of two ways to be executed: lethal injection or firing squad. After dropping the firing squad, Utah faced a serious shortage of chemicals for lethal injection, so the state brought back the firing squad, makingUtah the only state in the union that shoots prisoners to d...
Somehow, over just three years, the Biden administration did to the Middle East what it did to the southern border: blew it up in the same exact manner of mindlessly undoing any policy that had previously worked with Trump’s finger prints on them. ...
the war years themselves. Many US working class also supported the Nazi cause. In a kind of schizophrenia, as we were fighting the Germans in Europe as the wealthy US barons were financing the German Nazis, 676,000 German prisoners were shipped to a...
In 1990, a new group formed within the Peter J. Pitchess Detention Center, then known as the Wayside Honor Rancho. The Wayside Whities’ alleged mission was tobring to heel any incarceratedBlack men, especially those who fought with white prisoners. They used hand signs with their middle fing...
"It had the reputation as a place that would break a man. It lived up to its reputation."Now, more than 150 years after it was created as a Union Army fortress and stockade and more than 30 years since the last federal prisoner was removed, moviegoers can get a more dramatic look ...