criminal violence

TUCSON -- In a roundtable discussion on Sanctuary Cities with President Trump at the White House, Tuesday, Congresswoman and Arizona GOP Senate candidate Martha McSally joked about building a wall on the California-Arizona border. "If these dangerous policies continue out of California," McSally ...

In practice, this means treating violent and nonviolent offenders differently — with violent criminals locked up and kept isolated from the community.'' The IPA research is designed to find cheaper alternatives to prison for nonviolent offenders to curb the cost of jailing offenders. The latest ABS data shows the ...

Unwell pensioner with violent criminal past screams 'I'm going to kill you' before stabbing man in the back ... Violent criminal Ian Brown met up with his victim Henry Jarvis, 24, late at night and they spent time drinking on a bench outside the Lumley Hotel in Skegness before going to a supermarket to buy ...

A “life-long violent criminal” should spend more than nine years in federal prison for robbing two banks in November 2016 in West Bridgewater and Brookline, prosecutors said Thursday in a court filing. US Attorney Andrew E. Lelling's office filed its sentencing recommendation in US District Court in Boston ...

A 35th District Court jury convicted Lynn Isbell of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon Wednesday, then spent a a day and a half hearing about his violent past, his association with the Ayran Brotherhood of Texas and his previous convictions. Late Thursday afternoon, jurors sentenced Isbell to life in ...

FAYETTEVILLE -- The man who Fayetteville police are calling their "priority number one" has now been taken off the streets. Twenty-eight-year-old Genesis Whitted Jr. was sentenced to 35 years in prison. It comes after a joint investigation involving the Fayetteville Police Department and the FBI. Whitted ...

MISSOULA – The man whose DNA is now in question in the murder of a Helena-area woman 23-years ago is someone who's made headlines before, most recently for the brutal robbery and murder of a mother and son in Deer Lodge. It was a theft that netted him thousands of dollars in silver, but also a trip ...

The plan to empty out the Cook County Jail hit a snag Friday as Taphia Williams filed a lawsuit against Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart. She asserts the sheriff interfered with her pretrial release and right of being placed on home monitoring via ankle bracelet. (“Jailed woman sues Sheriff Tom Dart over ...

Cook County State's Attorney Kimberly M. Foxx sits for an interview in her office in the Cook County Administration Building in Chicago in November. (Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune). Ted SlowikContact ReporterDaily Southtown. Privacy Policy. I appreciate the opportunity to occasionally sit down with elected ...

A new report says that homicide rates increased substantially between 2016 and 2017 in municipalities in Colombia partaking in coca crop substitution programs, highlighting the fragility of the program in the context of intensified conflict among the country's fragmented crime groups. Homicide rates in ...

MADISON, Ala. - Mental health care is something you're hearing a lot about these days. Officials are saying it's the way to make sure things like the recent shooting in Florida don't happen. In Madison County, the court system operates a special program that works to correct mental health issues for ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark -- Thursday, U.S. Attorney Cody Hiland, along with several Little Rock city leaders, announced the arrest of 49 suspects, who face either drug or gun charges, as part of Project Safe Neighborhood. People who live where police said some the most violent crimes take place in Little Rock, ...

Mexico enters the 2018 presidential campaign on the heels of the most violent year in its recent history. But notwithstanding the urgency of the challenge, the candidates have been unable to voice coherent proposals to confront an increasingly fragmented and violent criminal landscape. While the initial ...

A basic feature of the criminal justice system is that violent crimes are punished with more prison time than non-violent ones. But the logic behind extremely long sentences is not always clear, reflecting an age-old debate about the purpose of prison. Whether it's slashing sentences or reducing the ...

Detective Constable Alan Mears, of the Met's Flying Squad, said: "Whelan is a violent criminal who used threats and violence to steal cash from petrol stations. "He was committing offences at a rate of almost one a week so it was important he was caught as soon as possible." Detective Chief Inspector Scott ...

U.S. Attorney Robert Duncan says combining resources and having agencies work together could result in better prosecution of violent criminals. "You know we want to be out in the community, want to be an active part of the communities, discussing the dangers of violence, the dangers of drug abuse and ...