New York's Boot-Camp Prisons Get the Boot

Published January 5, 2014

New York's boot-camp prisons get the boot
The 32-year-old aspiring rapper is small framed and soft-spoken, but he says he cut an intimidating figure as a drug dealer on the streets of South Jamaica, Queens, in New York City. It was a lucrative business — until he was convicted of weapon …
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Drug residues in Swedish sewage water
Through taking a sample of water in treatment plants and measuring the levels of drugs can provide a snapshot of the drug usage in a particular city. The method has been used before, both in Sweden and abroad, and is a complement to other methods to …
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The Crime of Cruel and Unusual Punishment in the US
In 1987 Amnesty International issued a report on Marion where it found that the prison violated every part of the UN's Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (Freedom Archives 2013). … Crime may have increased in the 1960s, though the …
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