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Texas prison officials plan cell phone jamming test

Texas :: TX :: USA | 5 days ago

House Corrections Committee Chairman Jerry Madden said he has requested a test of the technology at a Texas prison "as soon as it can be worked out."...Travis County state jail in Austin. "It would take a change in federal law to allow jamming such as...

Fighting Prisoners with Cell Phones

Washington :: DC :: USA | 7 days ago

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Remember that guy in Shawshank Redemption who engineered an ingenious escape through the sewerage? Prisoners today have it so much easier: the ubiquity of cell phones makes it so much easier to plan exit strategies. Not that prisoners are allowed to...

1988 Carter football robbery spree was 'just for kicks'�

Evans :: GA :: USA | 21 days ago

She later learned it was Edwards who drew a .22 revolver from a Crown Royal bag. Evans was the 6-3 guy who reached over the counter and emptied the cash register. Edwards hopped the counter and trailed her to a back room, demanding more money. They drove...

Killer axed family to death to avoid shame

Vienna :: Austria | 24 days ago

Austrian man who murdered five members of his family with an axe to avoid embarrassing them over a big financial loss has been sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in Vienna. The man, identified only as Reinhard S, said he had killed his wife, his...

Florida News Preview

Miami :: FL :: USA | 24 days ago

Eighteen-year-old Michael Hernandez faces life in prison without parole when he is sentenced for the 2004 knife slaying of a friend in a middle-school bathroom. The Federal Aviation Administration says three people were killed when their twin-engine plane...

Millionaire Sentenced to Life in Murder-for-Hire Plot

Brentwood :: NY :: USA | 24 days ago

N.H. Millionaire John Brooks has been officially sentenced to life in prison, less than one day after a jury spared him the death penalty. Brooks will instead serve two concurrent life sentences, without possibility of parole. Family members of slain...

Israeli Army Investigates Alleged Abuse of Prisoner

Jerusalem :: Israel | 24 days ago

The Israeli military says it has launched an investigation after a local TV station aired video allegedly showing soldiers humiliating a bound and blindfolded Palestinian prisoner. The pictures screened by Channel 10 show a man forced to repeat Hebrew...

Kenney gets life without parole

Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 28 days ago

Proclaiming his innocence to the end, a defiant John Kenney was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole this morning for the murders of his Carmel Valley neighbors, Mel and Elizabeth Grimes. Kenney, 74, shot the couple Jan. 29, 2007,...

Metro.co.uk: 55 years on, serial killer's final chapter

Islamabad :: Pakistan | 28 days ago

The final chapter of one of Britain's most notorious murderers was marked by just a short inquest attended by a handful of people. Serial killer John Thomas Straffen was Britain's longest-serving inmate when he died at Frankland prison in Durham last...

Last meal as Bali killers prepare to meet their God

Denpasar :: Indonesia | 29 days ago

Bali killers Amrozi and Mukhlas prepared the bombers' last meal yesterday in anticipation of their appointment with a firing squad as early as this morning. Parents who lost children in the 2002 Bali bombings had mixed feelings about the impending executions....

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