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AP / Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department

L.A. Jails to Get Ray-Gun Technology

Los Angeles jails may become the new frontier for science-fiction weaponry after the Sheriff’s Department unveiled plans to use heat-beam ray guns in one county jail, zapping unruly inmates with a beam that “makes them feel as though they are burning.”

Posted on Aug 27, 2010 READ MORE  |  13 COMMENTS


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Gitmo Guard Reunites With Ex-Inmates via Facebook

Six years after their release from the Guantánamo Bay prison, former inmates and British citizens Ruhal Ahmed and Shafiq Rasul met up in London with an American soldier, Brandon Neely, who had been one of their guards during their two-year detention at Gitmo.

Posted on Jan 12, 2010 READ MORE  |  1 COMMENT


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Top Court Orders New Hearing for Troy Davis

Death row inmate Troy Davis might get a chance to clear his name in the 1989 murder of a Savannah, Ga., police officer, now that the Supreme Court has ordered a federal judge to grant him a new hearing.

Posted on Aug 17, 2009 READ MORE  |  5 COMMENTS


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Prisoner Accused of Chandra Levy’s Murder

Eight years later, it seems the mystery of Washington intern Chandra Levy’s murder might be solved, and it seems former Congressman Gary Condit is exonerated—cold comfort after his political career was wrecked as a side effect of the Levy investigation.

Posted on Mar 3, 2009 READ MORE  |  2 COMMENTS


Three Gitmo Inmates Commit Suicide

The detainees hanged themselves with nooses made of sheets and clothes, sparking renewed calls to close the detention facility.

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