Dr. John Merrifield, father of Michael Merrifield - the man convicted of molesting and murdering two-year-old Logan Shane Goodall - has pleaded no contest to a charge of gross neglect, with regard to charges that he failed to report the abuse of the toddler. The charge is a felony. Dr. Merrifield faces one

[This is an article I wrote on June 11, 2007, while Paris Hilton was incarcerated for violation of probation stemming from an original charge of DUI --ENM] I don’t know about anybody else, but I’m just about sick and tired of hearing about poor little rich girl Paris Hilton. Paris, of course, is

Inside a 9/11 Mastermind’s Interrogation By SCOTT SHANE WASHINGTON — In a makeshift prison in the north of Poland, Al Qaeda’s engineer of mass murder faced off against his Central Intelligence Agency interrogator. It was 18 months after the 9/11 attacks, and the invasion of Iraq was giving Muslim extremists new motives for havoc. If anyone knew

[Boston Globe] Fourteen years ago, Henry K. Boateng was sentenced to life in prison without parole after a Worcester jury convicted him of beating his 5-week-old son to death and viciously attacking the baby’s mother. Now, Boateng — who changed his name to Daniel Yeboah-Sefah and identifies himself as a Buddhist — has won a significant

L.A. is failing to protect American Citizens in its effort to be a sanctuary city. The African-American population, whether they are gang members or not, are still American Citizens, while the Latino gang members are made up of mostly illegal Mexican Nationals with ties to Al-Qaeda, are here to do harm and create mayhem. The elected officials of L.A. need to be recalled from office for failing their civic duties to protect the American Citizen from harm.

It’s rare when I find myself nodding enthusiastically to a George Monbiot column, but today’s piece on our bloody awful prisons policy is certainly one of ‘em, restating the lunacy in our fetish for incarceration that I’ve been annoying people with for a while. But for all that’s agreeable in the article, it still retains

Last month Gordon Brown vetoed a planned increase of a magnificent 4 pence an hour for prisoners’ pay. Obviously not to look soft on crime and the criminals Brown intervened and the increase withdrawn. Yet support, financial help and advice for prisoners’ leaving prison is insufficient. The Citizens Advice Bureau highlighted the case of a man who

A federal magistrate has rejected an attempt by the state to keep certain documents secret as courts decide whether to cap California’s overcrowded prison population. California’s 33 adult prisons were designed for roughly 100,000 inmates but currently hold 159,000. Inmate advocacy groups say the crowding has led to numerous problems, including and not

“Locked Up Alone: Detention Conditions and Mental Health at Guantanamo,” documents the conditions in the various “camps” at the detention center, in which approximately 185 of the 270 detainees are housed in facilities akin to “supermax” prisons even though they have not yet been convicted of a crime. “Guantanamo detainees who have not even been charged

It has been two weeks since Matrook al-Faleh was arrested in Riyadh. Despite requests from human rights organizations and the media, the Ministry of Interior is yet to explain why they arrested him. It is truly sad that in a time when our country is trying reform and move towards more openness and freedom that a