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The spy who's been left in the cold
Jonathan Pollard's spying compromised U.S. intelligence, strained the U.S.-Israeli alliance and landed him in prison for life. Eleven years later, the Post finds, a new question has emerged: Is justice being served?
Tags: Political prisoner Cental Intelligence Agency Defense Department Federal Bureau of Investigation
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A Bloody Day in Georgia
This story is a classic illustration of abuse of power. In this instance by a former funeral home director with no hands-on law enforcement experience who won a political appointment to lead Georgia's burgeoning prison system. Within weeks of assuming the job, Wayne Garner was leading SWAT-like teams of prison guards on shakedowns throughout the state. With each shakedown came prisoner allegations of abuse, escalating with the bloody shakedown at Hays prison in July 1996. The violence of that day remained a secret until last year, when testimony taken in conjunction with a prisoner lawsuit began leaking out.
Tags: TAPE
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No title (id: 13956)
The story of David Belfield, AKA Dauod Salahuddin, showed that in the late 1970's and throughout the early 1980's the government of Iran recruited disaffected American blacks to commit terrorist acts throughout the United States in the name of Islam. It was a well-organized, well-financed, and intricately planned plot to commit murders, bank robberies, arsons, burglaries and acts of political terrorism. All of the recruits were found in either mosques or prisons in the United States, paid in cash, and given elaborate escape plans and passports to Islamic countries. (January 19, 1996)
Tags: Jarriel Thrasher The assassin Contest entry 6 pgs. TAPE
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George Bush's Herion Connection
Two days before the end of his administration, George Bush signed a paper granting executive clemency to a herion traffickerserving time in a North Carolina prison. The man was deported and forbidden to ever return to the U.S. Rolling Stone examines one of the most puzzling mercies bestowed by a chief executive in the 206 years of presidential clemencies. (Oct. 6, 1994)
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End of the Line
The Westword examines the United States Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility, better known as ADX. The prison replaces the federal penitentiary in Marion, IL as the U.S. Bureau of Prisons' highest security penitentiary.
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No title (id: 13087)
This Patriot-News article looks at Mumia Abu-Jamal, a convicted cop-killer on Death Row who has collected support from an odd mix of radicals, politicos, academics and celebrities while coming to symbolize all that seems wrong with the death penalty. From direct mail to the Internet, Berlin to Beverly Hills, Abu-Jamal is billed as America's political prisoner. (Aug. 20, 1995)
Tags: Bell Mumia; Inc. Courts NAACP Police Charities Black United Fund Murder 4 pgs.
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No title (id: 12497)
Greenville News series documented the failure of the juvenile justice system in South Carolina--from the courtroom to the inadequate political commitment to address the problem, to the juvenile prisons that don't punish or rehabilitate. Less than one in three juveniles convicted in 1,255 cases of serious crimes served any time behind bars in 1993. Judges let juveniles convicted of kidnapping, rape and armed robbery walk out of their courtrooms on probation.(April, 1995)
Tags: Fox Smith CAR Criminal neglect Contest entry Crime Violence Drugs Weapons Family Court 32 pgs.
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Clay Jackson in Prison
The California Journal reports that "After nearly two years in prison, and after a stern rebuke from a federal appeals court, the legendary lobbyist (Clayton R. Jackson) is anything but contrite about the circumstances that led to his fall. Instead, he insists that those who prosecuted and convicted him just didn't understand the universe of legislative and deal-making
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Commerical Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.) discloses that a candidate for governor had used prison kitchen workers to cater at least six political functions while he was the mayor of a Tennessee town, November - December 1993.
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No title (id: 9436)
The Detroit News series finds that politically ambitious prosecutor sent five men to prison based on faulty evidence for a murder they did not commit; local pathologist overlooked important evidence; the star witness for the prosecution changed her story between the two trials; the prosecutor withheld key information from the defense; jurors say they were pressured into voting guilty although they believed the defendants' innocence, 1991. # MI Sinclair Wrongful Conviction
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