Audrey Conklin on October 14, 2019 A Fort Worth, Texas, police officer resigned and now faces charges after shooting a woman in her own home, Fort Worth Police Chief Edwin Kraus told reporters Monday. Officer Aaron Dean, who is white, shot and killed 28-year old Atatiana Jefferson, who is black, at 2:30 a.m. on Saturday…
Peter Hasson Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez promoted “prison abolition” in a pair of tweets Monday morning. Ocasio-Cortez called for “a real conversation about decarceration [and] prison abolition in this country,” adding: “A cage is a cage is a cage. And humans don’t belong in them.” “Prison abolition” is a radical left-wing movement to abolish prisons…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Written by Brent Derider On May 15th 2017 at 2:05PM, Sessions Judge Sam Benningfield signed a standing order that, effectively, puts White County, TN, in the business of trading sterilization for freedom. It stated that any inmate who completes a neonatal health class has an option to have their jail…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: by Micah J. Fleck According to ABC News: The “Incognito Bandit” has been caught. The alleged elusive serial bank robber was arrested Friday night at Dulles International Airport in Virginia as he attempted to board a South Africa-bound flight, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston said Friday. Albert Taderera, 36,…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Saagar Enjeti Emanuel Lutchman of Rochester, New York was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison Thursday, for planning a 2015 New Years Eve machete attack at the behest of the Islamic State. Lutchman fell under the auspices of an American-born ISIS fighter in Syria known as Abu Issa Al…
By Kody Fairfield The “Mannequin Challenge” is one of the newest trends that has been setting the internet ablaze. The short films showing people pretending to be frozen in time, while Black Beatles by Rae Sremmurd plays in the background, has been done by celebrities, police departments, sports teams, and now… prison inmates. The Associated Press through KFI, a…
by Ryan Pickrell Facing jail time, a foreign tourist in Myanmar is regretting a rash decision when he tried to get a little shuteye. Dutch national Klaas Haijtema unplugged an amplifier during a late-night Buddhist prayer service at the Thusarita Dhammaryone religious hall in Mandalay, Myanmar Sept. 23. He disconnected the amp because the noise from…
by Craig Boudreau With the release of the Office of the Inspector General’s (OIG) report on safety issues at private prisons, their use has been called into question. The federal government started using private prisons as a means to help cut down on overcrowding in federal prisons in 1997. Privatization was supposed to reduce costs,…
By Elena Weissmann Two Indiana inmates escaped their prison cell by climbing through the wall last week — an escape that mimics the plot of the 1994 film, “The Shawshank Redemption.” Just as the infamous Andy Dufresne of “Shawshank” digs a tunnel out of his prison cell using a rock hammer, the Indiana inmates somehow drilled a large enough…
By Casey Harper Two men who set ablaze a police car during the Baltimore riots have been handed down prison sentences a year later. Keith Riggins, 24, and Keon Brown, 23, both received prison time Friday for their role in setting a police car on fire during the April 2015 Baltimore riots, according to the State’s Attorney…