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Texas Officer Aaron Dean Charged With Murder After Killing Black Woman In Her Home

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…

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Ocasio-Cortez Says America Needs ‘To Have A Real Conversation’ About Abolishing Prisons

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…

Eugenics in Tennessee: Trading Sterilization for Freedom
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Eugenics in Tennessee: Trading Sterilization for Freedom

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…

“Incognito Bandit” Bank Robber Arrested Boarding South African Flight

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,…

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NY Man Gets 20 Years For NYE ISIS Machete Plot

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…

WATCH: Inmates Secretly Film Mannequin Challenge, Get 100K Views
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WATCH: Inmates Secretly Film Mannequin Challenge, Get 100K Views

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…

Man in Prison After Pulling Plug on Religious Service So He Could Sleep

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…

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The Great Prison Libertarian Debate: Private Vs. Federal

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,…

Inmates Bust Out Of Indiana Jail ‘Shawshank Style’

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…

A Year Later, Baltimore Freddie Gray Rioters Get Serious Prison Time

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…