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...Lenin, the driving impetus behind this savagery, he was given the nickname “Iron Felix.” At his orders, captured “enemies” of the regime were often sent to forced labor and concentration camps or else just summarily killed in their jail cells. On one night alone in 1919, some 1,500 Moscow prisoners were executed at Dzerzhinsky’s command. His Cheka was also feared for its particularly sadistic methods of torture. These included shoving victims into tanks of boiling water, sawing their bones in half and allowing rats...
...drank, and I warned the Harvard University Police Department officer who had been dispatched by the UHS urgent care ward. He assured me that “She won’t be belligerent with me. Either she’ll cooperate or she’s going to jail.” At the time I assumed the threat of discipline was just a motivational tactic. But the fact remains that if she had acted belligerently towards the officer, she could have been punished for her drunken misbehavior...
...years I was police chief had tried it," says McNamara. Like many pot legalizers, he believes the system, which he says arrests more people for marijuana than for any other drug, is racist. "Ninety million Americans have tried marijuana. When you look at who's going to jail, it is overwhelmingly disproportionate--it's Latinos and blacks." Not surprisingly, the topic is radioactive in the police profession. Andy Anderson, who was head of his state's largest cop organization, the Nevada Conference of Police and Sheriffs, announced that his board members unanimously supported the pro-pot initiative so they could...
...Britney Spears and Jay-Z. But her instincts failed her two summers ago, when she backed a Mercedes SUV into a crowd at a Hamptons nightclub and fled the scene. Grubman kissed her friends and the good life a temporary goodbye last week and began serving 60 days in jail. Although scared, Grubman has suggested that her former life as a professional networker will help her in the slammer; as she told the New York Daily News, "I'm a people person...
...Ohio: Drug treatment vs. jail time Issue 1 If Issue 1 passes, judges would be required to impose treatment, not jail time, for nonviolent first- and second-time offenders who request it. Democrats generally support the measure, which is backed by three billionaires, including New Yorker George Soros, while Republicans - including the governor and several prominent judges - oppose...