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Some Inmates Would Be Released Early Under Justice Department Plan
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department is endorsing a plan that would speed up the release dates for well-behaved prisoners in a plan aimed at saving on detention costs, NPR reports. Strapped for cash, the Justice Department is looking for ways to handle the overcrowded federal prison system that handles 218,000 inmates. Under the plan,…
Holder to Announce Major Reforms for New Orleans Police Department
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder will announce an array of reforms in the New Orleans Police Department on Tuesday as part of the most far-reaching consent decree of its kind, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reports. A monitor and federal judge will direct the mandated oversight spelled out in a 125-page agreement for…
ICE Investigates Human Smuggling After Deadly Crash
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Immigration and Custom Enforcement agents are investigating human smuggling after a truck packed with illegal immigrants crashed in rural southern Texas, killing 17 and injuring nine, the Associated Press reports. Of the those killed, 11 were male and three female. At least two were children. They came from Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras,…
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“Before, we couldn even talk about the beatification of children in the history of the church because the principle prevailed that they didn yet have the skills to exercise the heroic level of Christian virtues,” required as a first step Replica Hermes, Saraiva Martins said in an interview. The country was proclaimed a republic after…
NCAA Message Falls Shorts in Penn State Case
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The NCAA wanted to send a message that protecting children is more important than Penn State football. But if the NCAA really meant it, it would have suspended play for at least a year. A $60 million fine essentially amounts to one year of revenue generated from the program. And no…
ICE Agent Accidentally Shoots Self
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent is recovering after he accidentally shot himself in Miami Beach after a traffic stop Saturday, NBC 6 Miami reports. After talking to the driver of the car he pulled over, the agent was walking back to his car when his gun went off and shot him in the leg….
FBI Probes Link Between Shooter and Adult Dating Website
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating a potential link between an adult dating website and the man accused in the Aurora, Colo. massacre, the Washington Post reports. Authorities said they found an account on Adult Friend Finder, called Classicjimbo, that resembles the shooter, James Holmes. On the account on the site, which is for…
War on Drugs Goes to Africa
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The U.S. is expanding its war on drugs to Africa, the New York Times reports. Targeting areas used to smuggle Latin American cocaine into Europe, the U.S. is training an elite unit of counter-narcotics police in Ghana and plans to do so with Nigeria and Kenya. The aggressive position in Africa is…