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More than Third of Released Prisoners Arrested Within 6 Months of Release
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com If prison is designed to prevent repeat offenses, it’s failing miserably. Business Insider reports that more than a third of state prisoners were arrested within six months of being released, and that number jumped to 56.7% within the first year, 67.8% within three years and 76.6 % within five years. Those numbers…
FBI’s Reaches 80-Year Anniversary of Botched Attempt to Arrest John Dillinger, His Gang in Wisconsin
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com It was a 80-year-old lesson the FBI will never forget. Tuesday was the 80-year anniversary of the bureau’s bungled attempt to arrest gangster John Dillinger and his gang at Little Bohemia Lodge in northern Wisconsin, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. Agents acting on a tip tried to raid the lodge but were…
Justice Department Readies for Unprecedented Campaign to Grant Clemency to Nonviolent Offenders
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Obama administration is anticipating thousands of clemency requests from federal inmates imprisoned for drug offenses. The Washington Post reports that the clemencies are part of an unprecedented campaign to create more equity in criminal sentencing by freeing some nonviolent offenders. The initiative will last two years and will involve dozens of…
Border Patrol Saves Life of Illegal Immigrant Bitten By Snake in Texas
video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com U.S. Border Patrol agents are being credited with saving a man’s life after he illegally entered the U.S. from Honduras. KSAT.com reports that agents rescued the man in Texas after he called 911 and told the operator he was bitten by a snake. Agents responded with a…
Stowaway Teen Reveals Serious Flaws in Airport Security After He Climbed onto Plane Unnoticed
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com More disturbing than a teen’s decision to hide in the wheel well of a flight from California to Hawaii was how easily he was able to slip past layers of security Sunday morning. The Washington Post reports that the 15-year-old boy, who was running away from home, showed how a determined person…
Longtime FBI Agent Joins Miami Dolphins to Oversee Security Following Bully Scandal
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Miami Dolphins have hired a longtime FBI agent to oversee security after last year’s bullying scandal. The USA Today reports that Joe Cicini, a 23-year veteran of the FBI’s Miami division, has the credentials: He provided crisis management training to professional football, baseball and basketball. The hiring follows a scandal last…
U.S. Marshal Fatally Shoots Gang Member Who Charged Witness Stand in Trial
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A gang member’s decision to attack a witness testifying against him Monday was a deadly one. KSL.com reports that Siale Maveni Angilau was fatally shot by a U.S. Marshall after he charged a witness in federal court in Salt Lake City. “The defendant went after (a witness) … and when he engaged…
Pittsburgh’s New FBI Leader Is Tested on Third Day with Mass Stabbing at High School
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com It was just Scott S. Smith’s third day as special agent in charge of the FBI’s Pittsburgh office when a student slashed and stabbed classmates in a hallway at Franklin Regional High School last week. “It was a horrific incident,” Smith told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for a story. “Behind the scenes, though,…