Is the 19th time the charm? Leslie Van Houten, 60, former Charles Manson cult member, is facing a parole hearing today. In each of her previous 18 attempts, she came up empty
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State regulators have rejected a proposal by the California Department of Corrections to revise lethal injection guideline procedures, now adding further delay in resuming executions, which have been on hold since 2006. The Office of Administrative Law outlined several reasons for its decision not… Continue reading this article, and get more legal news and information, at FindLaw.com
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State Regulators Reject CA Lethal Injection Guidelines
Is ICE cooling off? The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are offering art classes, bingo and continental breakfast on the weekends at several privately owned detention centers and many immigrant advocates are pleased, the Houston Chronicle reports. The changes are a part…
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement Ease Security Measures
Who would have guessed that it is such a cutthroat, hardball industry? After all, we are talking muffins here. But to former Thomas’ English Muffins exec, Chris Botticella, it is down and dirty and threatening his new employment opportunity over…
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A Lot of Bread: Muffin Exec Stopped from Moving Jobs
Pay up or go to jail. That’s the situation American debtors are increasing facing after debt collectors utilize local police to collect on debts
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Debtors’ Prisons Making a Comeback in America?
The California State Senate recently approved a cost savings bill to save millions of dollars and release the state’s sickest inmates on medical parole.
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CA State Senate Approves Cost Savings Medical Parole Bill
Attorney General Eric Holder is considering possible criminal charges in the BP oil spill. Holder stated that he plans to “prosecute to the fullest extent of the law” anyone who has broken a law in connection with the spill. At the..
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BP Oil Spill: Justice Dept. Weighs Criminal Charges
The White House is keeping its plan on track to buy an Illinois state prison to incarcerate prisoners, possibly including Gitmo Bay detainees. President Barack Obama is forging ahead with the plan to buy Thomson Illinois state prison, and to upgrade and convert… Continue reading this article, and get more legal news and information, at FindLaw.com.
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Plan to Buy Illinois State Prison on Track
After the Senate passed a major financial reform bill, some small businesses are concerned that the new oversight will hurt business and create unnecessary red tape. The uncertainty has many small businesses speculating whether they will get caught up in new financial regulation….
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Financial Reform Bill Concerns Some Small Businesses
A shortage in thiopental sodium, the drug used in lethal injection procedures may put executions in Arizona on hold a while longer. Executions were set to resume after three years and a period of legal wrestling over an acceptable method of lethal..
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Thiopental Sodium Shortage May Delay Executions in AZ
