AltWeeklies Wire
UNICOR Unrestnew
This prison industries program fails to communicate.
Tucson Weekly |
Tim Vanderpool |
05-03-2006 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
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
Tags: crime & justice
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
Tags: crime & justice
Safety Shell Gamenew
Government agencies keep passing the buck over prison recycling hazards.
Tucson Weekly |
Tim Vanderpool |
04-26-2006 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
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
Tags: crime & justice
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
Tags: crime & justice
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
Tags: crime & justice
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
