A young Indiana Daily Student essayist, somewhere in the middle of a piece that keeps confusing the functions of jails and prisons, concludes that the United States is just too darn punitive and doesn't spend enough time trying to redeem criminals:
Strangely enough, the crime rate in the country has steadily decreased. Yet, the incarceration rates have not decreased proportionately.
This Journal Gazette editorial has one of the greatest leaps of logic you'll ever see:
The report's author says the goal was not to shock Indiana residents but to give Hoosier policymakers useful information to help protect a segment of Indiana's citizens in excessive danger of being murdered. Shocked, though, is exactly what the policymakers
Today's tip for would-be criminals -- make sure your car is in working order:
At around 7:20 Tuesday evening, a trooper pulled over a car driven by 23-year old Halie Long going southbound at the 109 mile marker for having a burned out headlight. The trooper noticed the smell of burned marijuana coming from the car. Long didn't have a driver's license and was taken to the patrol car. An inspection of Long's car turned up a duffel bag with about 17 pounds of marijuana inside.
What's this? Felons are able to get around gun laws? Dang. Guess the gun-control folks are going to have to rethink things:
The Indiana Supreme Court stayed the execution Wednesday of a man scheduled to be put to death Friday in the 1993 slaying of an Indiana State trooper.
The Indiana attorney general is fighting to keep secret the identities of the doctor and prison employees who will execute Norman Timberlake, assuming all the appeals fail. I sincerely doubt if it's for the reason given:
A lot of people are going to make fun of this, but a great many will actually say it's a good thing:
In a ruling sure to make philandering spouses squirm, Michigan's second-highest court says that anyone involved in an extramarital fling can be prosecuted for first-degree criminal sexual conduct, a felony punishable by up to life in prison.
City police are trying to find a hit-and-run driver and, because of the nature of the witnesses, there isn't exactly conclusive evidence to go on:
Witnesses, mainly children at the scene, described the car with a wide range of colors, changing from white to silver to maroon. At first they described it as a 1990s make, but Joyner said that is now in question. Some thought a man was driving the car. Now police are backing off that assertion.
This should generate a lot of discussion:
Indiana's News Center has learned that the Fort Wayne pizza store employee who was shot and killed on the job over the weekend had a gun at the time of the robbery.
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23-year old Chad Brunson, the night manager, was shot in the head early Sunday, after two black men with their faces covered burst in and demanded cash.
How would you go before this judge one of these days?
The Indiana Supreme Court has reprimanded a judge for allowing a man to stay in prison more than a year longer than necessary.
The court said in a Dec. 19 reprimand that Madison Superior Court 3 Judge Thomas Newman Jr.'s “conduct reflects discredit on him and the Indiana judicial system.”
