Tag: prison industry
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decriminalizing drugs would save $46 billion
from st. louis post dispatch: American taxpayers would save more than $46 billion if drug addicts now in prison were instead treated, according to a study released Friday at a national convention of drug court professionals. Retired Army Gen. Barry McCaffrey, a former U.S. drug czar, and actress Melanie Griffith joined experts in calling on…
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choose one: prison, family detention center or xenu u
US to build vast prison in afghanistanfrom afp: The United States plans to build a vast, new detention camp at its main military base in Afghanistan… “I can confirm there are indeed plans to build a new detention facilty at Bagram airfield,” spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Mark Wright told AFP. “And the overall size is expected…
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US prison population dwarfs that of other nations
from iht: The United States has less than 5 percent of the world’s population. But it has almost a quarter of the world’s prisoners. Indeed, the United States leads the world in producing prisoners, a reflection of a relatively recent and now entirely distinctive American approach to crime and punishment. Americans are locked up for…
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sleeper cells, prison swells & uk troops in kansas
islamist sleeper cell in scotland yard?from sydney morning herald: Scotland Yard refuses to comment on a report that an al-Qaeda sleeper cell has infiltrated London’s Metropolitan Police headquarters. The News Of The World published a story yesterday stating Britain’s domestic intelligence agency, MI5, had identified four London police officers who were passing on Scotland Yard…
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uk prisoners ‘to be chipped like dogs’
Hi-tech ‘satellite’ tagging planned in order to create more space in jails. Civil rights groups and probation officers furious at ‘degrading’ scheme from independent/cryptogon: Ministers are planning to implant “machine-readable” microchips under the skin of thousands of offenders as part of an expansion of the electronic tagging scheme that would create more space in British…
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‘aryan brotherhood’
from national geographic: The Aryan Brotherhood, (also known as the AB or The Brand) is a prison gang numbering about 15,000 members in and out of prison. In March 2006, four leaders of the Aryan Brotherhood were indicted for numerous crimes, including murder, conspiracy, drug trafficking, and racketeering. According to the FBI, the gang is…
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news on the march
pig signals conflicts before new world orderfrom breitbart/afp: The world can expect a roller-coaster ride of conflict and unrest, natural disasters and a plunge in global stock markets once the Year of the Pig begins, Chinese soothsayers say… the last time such an arrangement appeared was in 2002, the year that followed the September 11…