Life Without Parole – Limbo

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Spoon Jackson contemplates his life without parole

Uniformed Code of Military Injustice

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UCMJ – Unjustly Coddling Military Jerks

Police and COPS: The Vasectomy Files 7

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Jonathan Stack’s scary—but funny—experience with being nearly arrested in Guinea leads to a revelation.

Australian Backpacker Rescues Family from North Korea (VIDEO)

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In 2009, Dick Stolp helped Hyeonseo Lee and her family escape from North Korea; watch Lee’s TED Talk and see their emotional reunion.

Who Profits From a Growing Prison Population?

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Private prisons highlight the disposability of men.

“I work in a residential facility for male addicts. The kids interested in recovery view marijuana legalization as a slippery slope.”

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This comment-of-the-day is by Tom B. on the post “Are You in the Marijuana Majority”?

“What? Men all have that thing where we use rape to keep people in line? What the hell!?”

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This is a comment by wellokaythen on the post “An Eye for an Eye? Jerry Sandusky, Male Survivors and Prison Rape”.

“Society wants dads to ‘step up’, but they are literally stomped down when they do.”

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These are comments by John Schtoll and Danny on the post “Can A Dad Take His Daughter Clothes Shopping (and Other Indignities of Modern Dadhood)”.

Racing Through The Dark: Prologue

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“And then, my guts in sudden free fall, I recognize where I am, the bare walls, the rough blanket, the hanging lightbulb. I am in a French police  cell, below  Biarritz town hall, in an empty basement.” — David Millar

“Laws prohibiting consensual deviant exchanges damage the public’s respect for law.”

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This is a comment by Andrew on the post “Open Thread: Should Drugs Be Legalized?”

“I would like the death penalty removed and to see a reformative jail akin to a drug abuse rehab center.”

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This is a comment by Gustavas on the post “Death Penalty Now”.

George Zimmerman Out on Bail

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George Zimmerman, who shot and killed Trayvon Martin in February, has been released on bail.

Supreme Court Rules Jailhouse Strip Searches Legal

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Mark D. White examines the today’s Supreme Court ruling about the legality of strip searches in US jails.

Crows Eat Well

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“The day I get out on parole, Toby picks me up in Kingston. He’s two hours late.” — Andrew F. Sullivan lets us into the dark parts of his soul.

#2 Foxy Lady

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I met Jake soon after he’d spent the night in jail.

Chained to a Madman: Charged With Grand Larceny at 19

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Eventually Steve Jaeger got himself on the right path, but not before he was shackled to a deranged prisoner who thought there was a witch inside of him.