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"To put these figures in context, we have slightly more jails and prisons in the U.S. -- 5,000 plus -- than we do degree-granting colleges and universities. In many parts of America, particularly the South, there are more people living in prisons than on college campuses."

wow this is crazy can't believe there are more jails than colleges wow

This is probably why we have overcrowded jails, because people go to jail more than college. That's crazy to me, what has this world come too. >:(

"A mother who sent her three-year-old son Jihad to school wearing a sweater with the words "I am a bomb" on the front, along with his name and 'Born on September 11th' on the back, was handed a suspended jail sentence on Friday for "glorifying a crime"."

"A 50-year-old Indian woman has been released from prison, 19 years after she was granted bail. Vijay Kumari was unable to post the necessary amount of about $180 (£120) to secure her release - so she stayed in prison until the son, who she gave birth to while in jail, got her out."

Authorities have confirmed that a body found in a barrel on property linked to a convicted rapist is that of a missing 16-year-old girl. Angela Allen was identified through dental records and her cause of death was determined to be strangulation, according to an arrest affidavit for Lloyd C.

Police found a 16 years old girls body in a barrel on a convicted rapists property. He story isn't to convincing. And people like him are disgusting and should be put away. It's sick minded to do sexually assault children or teens.

How could someone do that to a teenage kid? What kind of world are we living in? Where people are molesting kids and killing them and sticking them in a barrel.

(CNN) -- A mother in Montana is outraged that a high school teacher who admitted raping her 14-year-old daughter received only a month in prison, while her daughter took her own life. "I think this sentence is a joke, a travesty," the mother, Auliea Hanlon, told CNN on Tuesday night, a day after the sentencing.

how can someone do something like that and only get a month in jail, are legal system is messed up

(CNN) -- A large group of Baltimore corrections officers and members of a notorious prison gang have been working together to peddle drugs, phones and sex inside the city's jail, prosecutors say. But an indictment released this week is another shot, prosecutors say, at putting an end to it.

A McCook, Nebraska man was arrested Tuesday for allegedly trading cigarettes for sex with two 15-year-old Lincoln girls. Thirty-one-year-old Adam Brunswick faces two counts of first-degree sexual assault and electronic child enticement. Police say Brunswick began interacting with the girls through a dating website.

He should not have even thought of doing this. This disgusts me to the max. He should have waited to get money for cigarettes not do what he did.

For cigarettes really?

A women was supposedly sexually assaulted by a cop that was transporting her to a jail. This case is still in preliminary stages, but policy has already begun to change

"Stephen Nicholson was instead jailed for refusing to share his Facebook password with police, which they claimed obstructed their investigation into the stabbing of 13-year-old Lucy McHugh."

Something's wrong with the woman, she super glued her young child onto a wall and beat and kicked her repeatedly

Lauryns right she doesn't know right from wrong! she is just a little girl, that mom needs some help shes freakin crazy the mother deserves to go to jail....

the mother is crazy she deserves what she was punished with that little girl didnt deserve being beaten she was only 2 years old she doesnt know right from wrong yet

An Italian court convicted six scientists and a government official of manslaughter on Monday and sentenced them to six years in prison for failing to give adequate warning of a deadly earthquake which destroyed the central city of L'Aquila and killed more than 300 people in 2009.

Eric James, 22, the last of four inmates who escaped from a north-central Kansas county jail this week, is in the custody of Omaha police.

FRANKLIN, Neb. - Three members of a south-central Nebraska family are in jail in connection with the death of a 2-year-old boy. Franklin County authorities said family members brought Joseph Rinehart to a hospital on Monday evening. He was unresponsive when he arrived at the hospital and later pronounced dead.

(CNN) -- A drug counselor at California high school pleaded not guilty Wednesday to secretly videotaping students engaged in sexual activity with each other, and to possessing child pornography. Gilbert Olivares, 34, turned himself in late Monday, according to his attorney and the Salinas Police Department. His bail was set at $1 million.

Who would trust this guy as a counselor.? He doesn't even look friendly or welcoming like a counselor should. I would like to know how the kids got in there and how he knew to have the video camera on at that time? This is just ridiculous though! I can't believe it!

ewwwwwww

(CNN) -- A woman who was babysitting a 5-year-old who fatally shot himself Monday with her gun has been charged with abandoning or endangering a child, a felony, and jailed in Orange County, Texas, police said Wednesday. Bail was set at $250,000 for Melissa Ann Ringhardt, 19, said Clint Hodgkinson, chief deputy with the Orange County Sheriff's Office.

I can't believe the babysitter fell asleep but also can't believe the gun wasn't hidden better and more out of reach

The fact that multiple children are shooting themselves... and primarily in the head... is slightly unnerving. It's a good thing a new law is coming forth teaching gun safety to the younger generations, Missouri lead the way? http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/15/politics/missouri-first-grade-gun-lessons/index.html

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In a precedent-setting decision, a federal appeals court in San Francisco ruled Thursday that random body searches of clothed women prisoners--including of their breast and genital areas--by male guards at a Washington prison violated the Constitution's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. The U.S.