A new book and website may prove to be the last straw for Asante Kahari. Author Asante Kahari is best known for his book, “The Birth of a Criminal”. He is the first author in United States history ever to go to prison for writing a book, a work of fiction. Since his release in [...]
Alaska’s 800 inmates doing time in a private prison in Arizona will be moving to another private prison in Colorado by the end of the year. There they will stay for three years until Alaska finishes building its own lockup in Mat-Su to finally accommodate the state’s long-standing overflow. The Alaska Department of Corrections is [...]
States Are Rethinking the Mandatory Sentencing Rules for Less-Violent Offenders. By Kim Murphy, Reporting from Seattle Stevan Dozier was 25 when he punched a woman in the face to snatch her purse, another episode in the cash-for-crack crime wave that plagued America’s big cities during the 1980s. Over the next eight years, he would be [...]
Burgaw | Tina O’Kelley had driven in from Asheville to visit her husband, who was serving time at the Pender County Correctional Facility on a weapons charge. A heavyset woman with health problems who’s living on disability, O’Kelley could not afford to drive six hours and stay overnight in a motel so she could make [...]
El Dorado, Kan. – In 2003, the Spiritual Life Center was in its youngest form and now construction is close to completion. Since 2003 the facility has been in fund-raising mode and in 2004 the governor attended the center’s groundbreaking ceremony. Construction began in 2005 and continued for two years, then in October of 2007 [...]