Tom Chudz had been enjoying his retirement as he drove his Airstream 190 around America. One night in New Mexico, while Tom slept, the local sheriff and his deputies came knocking Sniffing booze on Tom’s breath, the deputies arrested him believing he had been driving and drinking. Someone had plowed into a Toyota just down…
On Monday, actress Shailene Woodley was arrested in Sioux County, North Dakota, following a peaceful protest of the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. She was released from Morton County Jail hours after she was taken into custody, E! News reports. The Dakota Access Pipeline is a $3.7 billion project aimed at creating a 1,172-mile…
A local woman is suing the Orange County bail bondsman accused of sexually assaulting her. The victim says bondsman Robert Burns threatened to revoke her bond, arrest her and take her to jail unless she had sex with him. The alleged victim announced the lawsuit late Monday morning. The suit, filed in Orange County, is…
“Many states can no longer afford to support public education, public benefits, public services without doing something about the exorbitant costs that mass incarceration have created.” — Bryan Stevenson Stevenson, the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, eloquently points out the cost of America’s “prison industrial complex.” It’s a fact that America…
Thousands of New Yorkers accused of low-level or non-violent crimes won’t face the prospect of raising cash for bail under a plan that seeks to keep such suspects out of the troubled Rikers Island jail complex. The $18 million city plan, detailed to The Associated Press ahead of the announcement on Wednesday, allows judges beginning…