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UNICOR Unrestnew
This prison industries program fails to communicate.
  
    Tucson Weekly  |  
    Tim Vanderpool  |  
    05-03-2006  | 
    Crime & Justice
  
  
  
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  A Gem of a Capernew
Bags of jewels were stolen from Lang Fine Estate Jewelers, two brothers are in custody, and the store owner is implicated -- who done it?
  
    SF Weekly  |  
    Martin Kuz  |  
    05-01-2006  | 
    Crime & Justice
  
  
  
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  Internal Affairsnew
A racial-discrimination lawsuit brought by black police officers has devolved into a probe of extramarital affairs and pornography.
  
    Illinois Times  |  
    Dusty Rhodes  |  
    04-28-2006  | 
    Crime & Justice
  
  
  
    Tags: crime & justice
  'Dirty, Stupid or Both'new
Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona had claimed he didn't know anything about a Las Vegas mafia associate who contributed to his campaign, but now that a picture of the two men embracing has surfaced Carona is not saying anything.
  
    OC Weekly  |  
    R. Scott Moxley  |  
    04-28-2006  | 
    Crime & Justice
  
  
  
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  Safety Shell Gamenew
Government agencies keep passing the buck over prison recycling hazards.
  
    Tucson Weekly  |  
    Tim Vanderpool  |  
    04-26-2006  | 
    Crime & Justice
  
  
  
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  Drugs of Choicenew
Some former cops argue that all drugs -- not just pot -- should be legal.
  
    San Francisco Bay Guardian  |  
    Steven T. Jones  |  
    04-26-2006  | 
    Crime & Justice
  
  
  
    Tags: War on Drugs, NORML
  Jump-Out Boysnew
Two Miami cops have been charged with armed kidnapping, armed burglary, aggravated assault with a firearm, grand theft, official misconduct and criminal mischief.
  
    Miami New Times  |  
    Francisco Alvarado  |  
    04-25-2006  | 
    Crime & Justice
  
  
  
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  Crush Me, Kill Menew
 
    
    To understand Florida's most bizarre unsolved murder, it helps to wear stiletto heels.
  
    New Times Broward-Palm Beach  |  
    Julia Reischel  |  
    04-24-2006  | 
    Crime & Justice
  
  
  
    
  Small Town, Big Letdownnew
Despite prison overcrowding problems, Illinois' most modern maximum-security prison sits empty nearly five years after it was supposed to open.
  
    Illinois Times  |  
    Jamie Murnane  |  
    04-24-2006  | 
    Crime & Justice
  
  
  
    
  Safety Standnew
A prison-industries whistleblower is vindicated by a government report.
  
    Tucson Weekly  |  
    Tim Vanderpool  |  
    04-20-2006  | 
    Crime & Justice
  
  
  
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  Publicity Hound or Dog Killer?
 
    
    After garnering national attention for scaling the St. Augustine Lighthouse in a tiger suit, Frank Feldmann has gone into hiding following his arrest for beheading the family dog.
  
    Folio Weekly  |  
    Owen Holmes  |  
    04-18-2006  | 
    Crime & Justice
  
  
  
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  Hiding in Plain Sightnew
Seven years after Columbine, officials are still keeping secrets from the public.
  
    Westword  |  
    Alan Prendergast  |  
    04-18-2006  | 
    Crime & Justice
  
  
  
    
  The Comeback Kidnew
After more than a decade on death row, boxer Anthony "Two Guns" Fletcher fights for his life.
  
    Philadelphia City Paper  |  
    J.F. Pirro  |  
    04-17-2006  | 
    Crime & Justice
  
  
  
    
  Sleepwalking Out of Jailnew
In Canada, somnambulists found guilty are sent to bed; elsewhere they end up in psychiatric wards.
  
    NOW Magazine  |  
    Alan Young  |  
    04-14-2006  | 
    Crime & Justice
  
  
  
    
  Burgles and Bunglesnew
In Richmond’s Golden Age of cracksmen, the guys weren’t criminal geniuses, but they had ambition and pluck.
  
    Style Weekly  |  
    Melissa Scott Sinclair  |  
    04-13-2006  | 
    Crime & Justice