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...PRISON BREAK SEASON 1 ON TV THIS month, the thriller shifts scenes as the jailbirds bolt from a high-security prison. (Relax, spoilerphobes: it's in the title.) Find out how they got there as Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller, left) unfolds an origami sculpture of a plan to free his brother from death row, with the help of some unsavory convicts and a prison map hidden in the most elaborate body tattoo since The Illustrated...
...traveling 139 m.p.h. The data, downloaded by police after the vehicle was impounded, convinced a grand jury to indict the youths on murder charges, based on "depraved indifference to human life." In the end, they pleaded guilty to manslaughter and assault, and are now serving a three-year prison term. "The minute the prosecutors had the speed from the 'black box,' they upped the charges to murder," says Richard Slade, whose son Blake was driving the Mercedes. "They had what they needed to force a plea down our throats...
...data as evidence in criminal trials. In Arizona, a Roman Catholic bishop was convicted in a hit-and-run accident after his car's black box showed that he had braked before impact, indicating that he had seen the pedestrian. A Massachusetts woman was sentenced to two years in prison after her SUV skidded on ice and hit a tree, killing her passenger. The car's recorder proved she was traveling 58 m.p.h. in a 40 m.p.h. zone. In Georgia, after a train hit a car, the lone auto survivor sued the railroad for $12 million. But a jury threw...
...Sunni family I meet seems to have a horror story that starts with a policeman at a checkpoint asking for identification. It's profiling, Iraqi style. The harassment ranges from getting insulting, sniggering comments ("Nice car. Where did you steal it?") to being handcuffed, blindfolded and hauled off to prison or, worse, a torture chamber. The most vulnerable are those who have obviously Sunni names, such as Omar. I have interviewed more than a dozen Omars, including two of Mahmud's nephews, who have endured varying degrees of persecution from police or militias. As a precaution, many Sunnis are buying...
...thought the Lebanese would protect us, but the government had no influence on the warriors in the field. We were taken to a prison in the middle of Damascus. The prison, run by the secret police force, was built underground to protect it from Israeli air force attacks...