ALHS Legal Studies

This is the woman charged with murdering her baby granddaughter, allegedly cutting the infant's throat with a power saw after hitting her on the head multiple times. Police in Chicago said seven-month-old Rose Herrera was apparently killed because she would not stop crying.

On April 16, 1996 Smith walked into his local police station to report Kelly's accidental death by drowning. When officers arrived at Smith's home, what they saw made it clear that the 17-year-old's death had been anything but accidental.

Sometimes I read a story that is so unbelievably awful it makes me seriously doubt humankind. This is one of those stories. A Florida couple conceived their children for the sole purpose of fulfilling a perverse dream of the father.

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" Though he tearfully insisted that he was merely following God's will, a jury on Friday convicted Jacques Robidoux, 29, of first-degree murder in the starvation death of his infant son."

They felt like what they did made them guilty and they got what they saw coming.

How is starving his son who is so small and fragile doing gods will?

"People who provide gay-to-straight conversion therapy are committing fraud if they describe homosexuality as a mental disorder that can be cured, a state judge said Tuesday in a ruling a civil rights group predicted would deal a serious blow to the treatment's future across the nation."

"O.J. Simpson went on trial for the killings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman 20 years ago, in what would become a wall-to-wall televised proceeding."

Posted: 03/10/2014 06:35:50 AM PDT Updated: 03/10/2014 06:47:36 AM PDT SACRAMENTO -- California counties are confounding the state's court-ordered efforts to sharply reduce its inmate population by sending state prisons far more convicts than anticipated, including a record number of people with second felony convictions.

Today, the ACLU announced that it is filing a federal lawsuit on behalf of prisoners at the East Mississippi Correctional Facility, a private prison in Meridian, Mississippi. The suit alleges that EMCF is "hyper-violent, grotesquely filthy and dangerous." One example of the jail's dangers: this handwritten letter from an inmate describing his own rape.

Now the Justice Ministry is reportedly considering a proposal to export convicts to neighboring France and Germany. Swiss prisons chief Thomas Freytag told public broadcaster SRF in a program aired late Friday that the country's correctional facilities are at more than 100 percent capacity.

"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. >:(

Despite pleas by human rights groups and legal representatives who have argued that Hill's intellectual disability should have made him ineligible for the death penalty, Hill died by injection at the prison in Jackson, Georgia. His time of death was 7:55 p.m. ET, said spokeswoman Gwendolyn Hogan.

This past Saturday, 53 inmates at Eastern Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison in upstate New York, were awarded college diplomas as part of the Bard Prison Initiative, a program that enables convicted felons to take courses and earn degrees while incarcerated. Among the graduates were newly minted experts in advanced...

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.

Teen, dad's marriage plan spurs N.J. incest ban effort