By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Sen. Chuck Grassley wants answers. The Republican from Iowa is demanding details of the treatment of Daniel Chong, who was detained and deprived of water and food for five days, the Hill reports. “The American people still do not know the full details about Mr. Chong’s mistreatment and abuse,” Grassley wrote….
By Theodoric Meyer and Christie Thompson ProPublica In 1991, an unemployed printer named David Ranta was convicted of killing a Hasidic rabbi in Brooklyn. Last week, Ranta was released from the maximum-security prison in which he’d spent nearly 22 years, after almost every piece of evidence used to convict him fell away. The New York…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Justice Department study has found that one in four women in jail have serious mental illnesses. The Justice Department announced the findings Wednesday in what is certain to spark more debates about access to mental health care in prison. The study also found that half of incarcerated women had received treatment for…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is on the hunt for two inmates who made a daring escape from a high-rise jail in Chicago early Wednesday morning, the Chicago Tribune reports. New videos show the two fugitive bank robbers hopping a cab a few blocks from the Metropolitan Correctional Facility, where authorities said they slid down…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The number of people paying time for a crime last year dropped to its lowest level since 2000, according to a newly released Justice Department report, the Associated Press writes. The report shows there are nearly 7 million people – or 2.9% of U.S. adults, are in jail, on probation or on…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com No one knows what Ford Cummings was thinking when he walked into a Texas jail, posing as a DEA agent who needed the release of an inmate. The 32-year-old with a gun tucked into his belt and no ID raised some eyebrows, the Houston Press reports. Cummings was charged with third-degree count…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Suspended NBA Washington Wizards star Gilbert Arenas dodged the bullet Friday during sentencing. He won’t be going to jail, but he will have to spend 30 days in a halfway house and two years on probation, the Associated Press reported. The D.C. U.S. Attorney’s Office had recommended a 3…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com One-time national hero Bernie Kerik, the former N.Y. City Police commissioner, will remain behind bars in the Westchester County Jail for now. A 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals Judge in New York denied his request “to stay the revocation of his bail on pending trial in corruption charges, but granted an…
