By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Defendants in one of the largest dog fighting busts in U.S. history received some of the stiffest prison sentences ever issued for a dog-fighting ring, the Washington Times reports. The Alabama dog fighting ring involved more than 350 dogs. “These dogs lived in deplorable conditions that constituted extraordinary cruelty,” said George…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Widespread corruption, misconduct and abusive behavior were found in Alabama’s prison system following a six-month investigation by a nonprofit law firm. Now the firm, the Montgomery-based Equal Justice Initiative, is urging the Justice Department to conduct a formal investigation, the Montgomery Advertiser reports. Alleging extreme violence, security problems and a culture…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com One of the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives may have been dead for more than two decades. WUSA9 reports that the FBI plans to exhume a body that bears a “strong physical resemblance” to Bradford Bishop, who has been wanted for allegedly murdering his mother, wife and three sons in Montgomery…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department is supporting the family of a girl who was raped after a teacher told her to act as bait to catch a suspected sexual predator at Sparkman Middle School in Toney, Ala. The Daily Mail reports that the school had failed to discipline the suspected predator because he…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com This is the kind of training you hope to never have to use. Nearly 200 members of various law enforcement agencies converged on a mall in Mobile, Alabama on Sunday for an active shooter exercise, FOX 10 reports. The scenario at Bel Air Mall was a shooter on a rampage after a…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com States have two choices: Comply with federal prison standards to reduce inmate rape or lose federal grant money. The Montgomery Advertiser reports that the Justice Department sent all 50 states a letter last week warning that would lose 5% of their federal funding if they are in compliance with the Prison Rape…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department leveled serious allegations against Alabama officials, saying the state failed to protect female prisoners from being sexually assaulted and harassed by correctional staff, Fox 6 WBRC reports. “Tutwiler has a history of unabated staff-on-prisoner sexual abuse and harassment,” the department wrote in a report to Gov. Robert Bentley. “The…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A 35-year-old investigator assigned to the DEA office in Birmingham, Ala. announced he’s running for sheriff in the Alabama county of Cullman, where he also served as head of the Cullman Narcotics Enforcement Team, the Cullman Times reports. Matt Gentry is running as a Republican to replace incumbent Mike Rainey in the…
