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Wesley Snipes Sentenced to Three Years in Prison | Bitten and Bound

Posted by bittenandbound

Actor Wesley Snipes has received a three-year prison sentence for three counts of willfully failing to file his taxes.

Although Snipes' attorney argued that the sentence was too stiff for a first-time offender, U.S. District Judge William Terrell Hodges disagreed, despite character reference letters from three dozen family members and friends, including Denzel Washington and Woody Harrelson.

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Brenda Martin’s Mother Reacts To Guilty Verdict

Posted by robynoratocom

Today Brenda Martin was found guilty in a court in Guadalajara, Mexico, after enduring over two years of incarceration without a verdict. Brenda, whose ordeal has captured the attention of millions, was accused of being part of a multi-million dollar fraud scheme perpetrated by her former employer, Alyn Richard Waage, even though Waage himself insisted she was innocent. Here, Marjorie Bletcher, Brenda's mother, speaks of her devastation over this outcome.

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Record-High Ratio of Americans in Prison

Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times

50 states spent more than $49 billion on corrections last year, up from less than $11 billion 20 years earlier. The rate of increase for prison costs was six times greater than for higher education spending, the report said. Using updated state-by-state data, the report said 2,319,258 adults were held in U.S. prisons or jails at the start of 2008 _ one out of every 99.1 adults, and more than any other country in the world.

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Prison population on the rise

Posted by DBFerguson from San Jose Mercury News

There are more than 1.5 million inmates in the nation's state and federal prisons, a number that is projected to grow to more than 1.7 million by the end of 2011, a 13 percent increase. The nation's population, by comparison, is projected to grow by 4.5 percent in that time.

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Five To Fifteen Years: The Life Of An Inmate

Posted by Orato

Last year, I stumbled upon a prisoner's blog in which the inmate expressed his desire to maintain a link with the outside world while maintaining his anonymity. I contacted Prisoner X through this blog and requested an interview. Some months later, a letter from a state department of correctional services turned up in the mailbox. Here's his story.

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US Prison Population Sets Record

Posted by Jeff from Truth Out

A record 7 million people - one in every 32 U.S. adults - were behind bars, on probation or on parole by the end of last year, a Justice Department report released yesterday shows.

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Prisons Often Shackle Pregnant Inmates in Labor

Posted by Jeff from New York Times

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