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...Mehsud served as a Taliban fighter against the Soviets in the battle for Afghanistan, but first rose to prominence as a supporter of Abdullah Mehsud, a one-legged militant imprisoned soon after the 9/11 terror attacks at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Baitullah Mehsud quickly leapfrogged his boss, and his ascension up the jihadi ladder was made apparent in 2005, when - swathed in a black cloth to shield his face - he negotiated the public signing of a cease-fire agreement with the Pakistani government. He has also served as the protege of Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar...
...Hunger” is marked by a series of strange and unsettling sequences shot over what feels like painful amounts of time. In one such scene, the camera rests for a good two minutes on a prison inmate as he watches a fly crawl across his arm. In lesser hands these moments could be rendered meaningless and dull, but McQueen’s film instead uses this minimalist aesthetic to transcend a simple set of plot details. In its depiction of real-life events, “Hunger” falls in an innovative category between straightforward documentary and dramatized...
...effect of the new sentencing guidelines has been dramatic. Drug offenders as a percentage of New York's prison population surged from 11% in 1973 to a peak of 35% in 1994, according to the state's Corrections Department. The surge was mostly a result of convictions for "nonviolent, low-level drug possession and drug sales" Paterson told TIME, "people who were addicted and were selling to try to maintain their habits." According to Paterson, just 16% had a history of violence. "And so really," he says, "you're shipping off a generation." In 1979, the laws were amended, reducing...
...legislatures, like New York's, where the draconian Rockefeller drug laws are up for review; in other states, from California to Massachusetts, various forms of marijuana decriminalization are being enacted. And it has reached the floor of Congress, where Senators Jim Webb and Arlen Specter have proposed a major prison-reform package, which would directly address drug-sentencing policy. (See pictures of stoner cinema...
...original version of this story incorrectly stated that Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis had been sentenced to eleven months in prison for the videotaping of underage girls. Francis was not sentenced for any crime. He served 35 days in jail in Florida for contempt and eleven months in jail in Reno, Nevada after being denied bail while awaiting trial on Federal tax evasion charges, regarding which he denies any wrongdoing...