AP Exclusive: Counties Undermine Prison Efforts

AP Exclusive: Counties undermine prison efforts
The law initially reduced the state prison population by 25,000 inmates and brought it close to the level demanded by a special panel of three federal judges who ruled that a reduction in crowding was the best way to improve treatment of inmates. But …
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In China, brutality yields confessions of graft
And Fan Qiqing, a contractor, said he was kicked and lashed with a metal whip and wooden plank during his 431-day detention and forced to take hallucinogenic drugs. … Zhou's treatment reflects the bind in which the Communist Party in China finds itself.
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Mexico Drug Lord Faked Earlier Death
By José de Córdoba. MEXICO CITY—The first reports of drug lord Nazario Moreno's death, four years ago, turn out to have been greatly exaggerated. But the second reports are true, Mexican officials assured the public on Monday. Mexican Attorney General …
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