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...inmates tell it, Venezuela's prisons are run not by the guards, but by the prisoners - and guns and drugs have become common currency inside prison walls. At the nearby male prison, which holds three times its capacity of prisoners, shoot-outs are a regular occurrence. Frightened foreign inmates say the understaffed, underarmed guards cannot stem the violence and do not even clean off the blood marks splattered across the walls...
...Padilla first caught the government's eye in the 1980s. He was a teenager, a Chicago gang member who pulled an armed robbery and got sent to juvenile detention. Later, he went to adult prison for brandishing a gun in Florida, and he stayed there until 1992, when he turned 22. After his release, Padilla embraced Islam, and in 1998 he moved to Egypt. While on a religious pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia in February 2000, he got cozy with al-Qaeda operatives, who recruited him to train for jihad in Afghanistan, the government claimed in court records. On July...
...during a pre-trial hearing last summer. Just as significant, Cooke threw out the "conspiracy to murder" count because, she ruled, it duplicated the conspiracy mentioned in the two other counts. Her decision would have eliminated the possibility of a life sentence, leaving a maximum of 15 years in prison for each defendant, had it not been overruled by an appeals court...
...first-degree charge is for a killing that is intentional, while the second-degree charge is for one that is unintentional. Both carry a maximum penalty of life in prison...
...accordance with Massachusetts policy, the Middlesex District Attorney’s office (DA) declined to comment on whether Vick has served prison time for the 1991 rape or the 2005 Mather House charge...