Number of U.S. Inmates Rises 2 Percent

Prisons and jails added more than 1,000 inmates each week for a year, putting almost 2.2 million people, or one in every 136 U.S. residents, behind bars by last summer.

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More than three-quarters of young black men aged between 18 and 35 are on the system, the report said.

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The proportion of US citizens behind bars far exceeds that of every other nation on Earth. Further, there is a class and race dimension to US incarceration: blacks and Latinos are imprisoned at a much higher rate than are whites.

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In the Islamic Republic it is illegal to execute a young woman, regardless of her crime, if she is a virgin, he explained.

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Reputation Institute collected survey data on 600 companies globally. Only people in a company's home country and familiar with the company could rate it. So Americans could only rate American companies they knew about.

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Akamai Releases Fourth Quarterly "State of the Internet -- India ranked #17 globally in terms of attack traffic, with 1.16% of observed attack traffic During the fourth quarter of 2008, Akamai observed attack traffic originating from 193 unique countries around the world, u …

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India is actually very well-positioned for the new post-US consumption world. We are a large economy with very little dependence on exports. Consumption is about 65 per cent of the economy, our demographics suggest it will remain strong. Our banking system is solvent.

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Indian Muslims Take Global lead - 'Jihad and terrorism poles apart'

A group of ulema (religious scholars) came out heavily against terrorism on Saturday.

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"It took us 89 years to free the slaves and 189 years to guarantee African-Americans the right to vote," he writes. "Women waited 144 years before earning suffrage.

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The California prison system must reduce overcrowding by as many as 55,000 inmates within three years to provide a constitutional level of medical and mental health care, a federal three-judge panel tentatively ruled Monday.

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Those who support the change on the ground that the amendment merely puts in the statute what is already a requirement of arrest and part of police practice ignore the fact that the amendment alters the emphasis significantly, and mandatorily provides that the accused "shall no …

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To tackle the pendency of nearly 2.5 crore cases, there was an urgent need for an additional 10,000 courts, the CJI said. "But, establishing these courts alone will not give the desired result.

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The police entered ... (a) pub ... cordoned it off, stopped the music and forced youngsters to take the breathalyser test. At the end of it all, however, only 11 of the 100 youths were found to be drinking. The cops then slapped the charge-of drinking without permits-on all 11.

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The recognized leader of the free world incarcerates far too many people, and the author makes the case for prison reforms.

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A rash of bank robberies in New York has the city's police commissioner worried that criminals have turned banks into "virtual cash machines" and some wondering whether tough economic times are fueling the trend. On Monday alone, robbers targeted five banks in the Big Apple, s …

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Tamanchas (also known as desi katta, a locally made gun) are ... illegal and indigenous weapons that are ... Priced anywhere between Rs500 and Rs1,000, depending on the quality, ...

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Bank robberies have also increased across the country.

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In a unique initiative, probably the first of its kind in the country, a sitting judge of the Bombay high court visited the high security Arthur Road jail on Sunday and interacted with its inmates, asking them to take advantage of the recently introduced concept of plea bargai …

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Americans, perhaps like all people, have a remarkable capacity for tuning out unpleasantries that do not directly affect them.

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Related Interactive Graphic: Prison Population Around the Globe. The United States has less than 5 percent of the world's population. But it has almost a quarter of the world's prisoners.

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The woman in this article deserves to be free; the other woman mentioned in the report does also. My son Benjamin Downey, an inmate in Greensville Correctional Center deserves a release, also. His crimes and conviction read the same as these two women. Help me bring Gov.

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SUPPLEMENTS are all the rage: evening primrose oil; St John's wort; fish oils; glucosamine; selenium; zinc; iron; molybdenum; probiotics. And don't forget those old standbys, multivitamin tablets.

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Tough sentencing laws, record numbers of drug offenders and high crime rates have contributed to the United States having the largest prison population and the highest rate of incarceration in the world, according to criminal justice experts.

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