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Mexican traffickers get help from US prison gangs
EL PASO, Texas – When Mexican drug traffickers need someone killed or kidnapped, or drugs distributed in the United States, they increasingly call on American subcontractors — U.S.-based prison gangs that run criminal enterprises from behind bars, sometimes even from solitary confinement. Prison gangs have long controlled armies of street toughs on the outside.
Lawmakers offer break to wrongly imprisoned
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (CHICAGOPRESSRELEASE.COM) — People sent to prison for crimes they didn’t commit have suffered plenty. Illinois lawmakers say they shouldn’t also have to pay taxes on whatever money they…
Cook County jail buildings get axed
CHICAGO (CBS) — Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart announced Thursday that he is closing two buildings at the Cook County Jail due to a shrinking number of inmates. A 600-bed building…
Monee man gets 35 yrs for killing son
A Monee man was sentenced to 35 years in prison for the fatal beating of his 5-month-old son in a Northwest Indiana apartment. With relatives of the victim sobbing in…
Thomson plan hits new snag in Springfield
President Obama’s plan to turn Thomson state prison into “Gitmo North” might hit a new snag, this time in Springfield. The State House has passed a measure that would require…
Antioch man sentenced to 50 years for grandmother’s murder
An Antioch man who murdered his grandmother in 2008 and then set her ablaze to cover up the crime will spend 50 years in prison, a Lake County judge decided…
Town of Cicero still paying for felon mayor’s health care
Former Cicero mayor Betty Loren Maltese begins the next phase of her post-prison life Monday, when she returns to Chicago and takes up residence inside a half-way house. Fox Chicago…
Kentucky man sentenced for bank robbery
COVINGTON, KY—The United States Attorney’s Office and the Federal Bureau of Investigation jointly announced today that Foster Haley, 46, of Burlington, Ky. was sentenced yesterday to 115 months in prison…
Man guilty of second-degree murder in stabbing death
James Webb was convicted Friday of second-degree murder in the August 2008 stabbing death of Cydric Jones, 36, during a drug transaction. The eight women and four men seated before…
Golfer Jim Thorpe gets one-year prison term
Golfer Jim Thorpe, a three-time winner on the PGA Tour, has been sentenced to a year in prison for failing to pay more than $2 million in income taxes. Thorpe’s…