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President Joe Biden joked with Jimmy Kimmel that Republican rule-breakers should be in jail, slammed Trump and called inflation the 'bane of our existence' in his first TV interview in 118 days. (Snip) Kimmel responded, 'It's like you're playing Monopoly with somebody who won't pass go or won't follow any of the rules, and how do you ever make any progress if they're not following the rules?' 'You've got to send them to jail,' Biden joked.

Despite the Constitution's affirmation of a right to a speedy trial, persons suspected of crimes committed during the January 6, 2021 riot at the Capitol building continue to languish in jail. Part of this pre-trial and conviction punishment includes isolation from outside visitors. Living conditions are degraded by unsanitary conditions. Brandon Fellows has been in the DC jail for almost a year. His alleged crime was smoking marijuana in the Capitol on Jan 6. A video of him in prison was smuggled out. In it he conducts a tour of his cell revealing frayed electric wires, mold, and an overflowing...

Libertarian politician Ingram Spencer, a candidate in a crucial seat in Australia's current federal election, used the words "mean girls" and "bithchiness" at a meeting to draw ballot paper positions last Tuesday. He has retweeted the fact the Russian President rejects the New World Order. (Declared by POTUS 41) Ingram has now disappeared into the prison system. It was reported that he iwent into jail on Friday and nothing has been heard of him since. It was also reported on Friday that he is in jail for being aggressive and spreading Russian propaganda. Not a single media report since then....

Headline only: A judge has let the famous French actor, Juicy Smooliét, out of jail on bond, pending resolution of the gay & black Empire star's hate crime hoax conviction.

JESSUP, Md. — A COVID-19 outbreak has reached the Howard County Detention Center. As of January 3, 2021, the County Health Department reported 126 of 235 inmates tested positive. Out of 131 staff members and 9 contracted employees, 44 were positive. A majority of them are asymptomatic or displaying only cold-like symptoms. Testing at the detention center is being conducted every Tuesday. Medical staff are taking the temperatures of those who tested positive twice each day, while also monitoring other symptoms. Infected inmates are being isolated and quarantined from others. Thus far, no one has required care at the infirmary...

While the jury was busy hearing Ghislaine Maxwell’s case in her recently concluded trial, there was some other action related to her perverted boss taking place quietly in the background. Insider is reporting that the charges against Tova Noel and Michael Thomas, the guards charged with sleeping on the job while Epstein supposedly killed himself, were dropped. The timing of this decision was certainly curious, as was the fact that the decision to drop the charges wasn’t made public for more than two weeks. A public status conference for the case against the guards had been scheduled for December 15th,...

People who falsify their vaccination cards to bypass the passport system in the state of New York could face up to one year in jail, according to new legislation. Signed into law on Wednesday by Gov. Kathy Hochul (D), the “Truth in Vaccination” law will make “faking a vaccination card a class A misdemeanor and tampering with computer records related to vaccinations a class E felony,” according to The Hill.

CHICAGO, IL—People are protesting in the streets today after human rights groups revealed Jussie Smollett will be forced to share a jail cell with his racist attackers. "This is an outrage!" said Reverend Jesse Jackson. "Not only was Mr. Smollett attacked by hateful racist bigots who want to tear our country apart, but now he has to share a jail cell with them? This is cruel and unusual punishment. This is the kind of thing that happens in our white supremacist country. Send me money!" Criminal justice watchdogs also revealed that in addition to sharing a cell with his attackers,...

OKLAHOMA CITY - A Trump supporter from Muskogee was sentenced Friday to 20 days behind bars for breaching the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

A woman who took more than $40,000 in merchandize from a San Francisco Target is out of jail as the city faces an ongoing surge in retail looting and theft. Aziza Graves is wearing an ankle bracelet and faces 120 misdemeanor counts of petty theft after she scanned dozens of items and made nominal payments before leaving incomplete transactions.

UPDATE: Both parents have been arrested by Detroit police in the 1000 block of Bellevue Street in Detroit just before 2 a.m. Saturday.

The man accused of killing six people and injuring dozens more with his SUV during a rampage at a Wisconsin Christmas parade feels “dehumanized” behind bars. Darrell Brooks gave his first interview since last Sunday’s ghastly attack to Fox News Digital Wednesday inside the Waukesha County Jail.

A federal lawsuit was filed recently after alleged abuse inside the Oklahoma County Jail, KFOR reported on Friday. “In October of 2020, two former Oklahoma County detention officers and their supervisor were charged with four counts of cruelty to prisoners, corporal punishment to an inmate, and conspiracy,” the outlet said. Court documents said former detention officers Christian Miles and Gregory Butler were accused of taking approximately five inmates from their cells, handcuffing them with their arms behind their backs inside an attorney booth, and forcing them to stand. “In some cases, the inmates were forced to listen to ‘Baby Shark’...

The same firms that volunteered to represent 9/11 terrorists pro bono now have no interest in defending the American citizens languishing in prison since January.At least 50 high-powered law firms that went out of their way to defend foreign terrorists in Guantanamo Bay free of charge are nowhere to be found as hundreds of American citizens languish in prison for charges related to entering the U.S. Capitol building during the January 6 riot.When foreign terrorists, including the accused mastermind who helped plan the 9/11 attack, were being held in the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, law firms from across the country...

U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth is holding D.C. Jail Warden Wanda Patten and D.C. Department of Correction Director Quincy Booth in contempt of court, accusing them of ‘inexcusable’ delays in providing medical treatment to prisoner Chris Worrell, who is accused of partaking in the January 6 Capitol Hill riot.‘American Greatness’ writer Julie Kelly live-tweeted the hearing and the resulting action by the judge.“Judge Lamberth just found the DC Jail Warden and DC DOC Director in contempt of court for refusing to turn over requested documents related to care for cancer-stricken J6 detainee,” she wrote. “Says civil rights are being...

Inmates of New York City's Rikers Island jail complex are reportedly running amok.Detainees at the understaffed jail have taken control of entire units, The New York Times reported.Inmates of New York City's long-beleaguered Rikers Island jail complex are running amok at the notorious lockup - and some have taken control over entire facility units, The New York Times reported on Monday."Rikers has long been dysfunctional, decrepit and dangerous," Zachary Katznelson told the news outlet. He's the executive director of a research and advocacy organization called Independent Commission on New York City Criminal Justice and Incarceration Reform.But Katznelson added, "What we...

An inmate at Bay Area jail overdosed on fentanyl Friday morning. Just after 7 a.m., correctional deputies at the Santa Clara County Jail in San Jose found a man suffering from a serious fentanyl overdose. Authorities administered three doses of narcan to the inmate who was unconscious. The man was immediately revived and was transported to a local hospital for further treatment. Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office in partnership with the Drug Enforcement Administration is investigating the incident to process the cell and determine how the fentanyl got into the jail. In September, a Santa Clara County Juvenile Hall counselor...

Fairfax County police have stopped publishing a weekly arrest blotter after county officials found it violated a policy that restricts the dissemination of personal information that could aid immigration enforcement. Immigrant rights and civil liberties groups had been pushing for the change, arguing the weekly compilations that include arrestees’ addresses and other details could allow U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to target immigrants for deportation and raise privacy concerns.

A Michigan state lawmaker who has faced months of legal woes is now facing two additional charges after authorities say he snuck a handcuff key into a county jail. Rep. Jewell Jones, 26, a Democrat from Inkster, was caught literally with his pants down during an alleged drunk driving spree on April 6th. That fiasco was said by authorities to have involved an unknown woman and a vehicle which ended up off the road. During that incident, a belligerent Jones was caught on video arguing with state troopers and at times hurling racial slurs toward them when the authorities showed...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Veterans’ groups, Democratic lawmakers and Afghans called Tuesday for urgent Biden administration action on a weeklong standoff that has left hundreds of would-be evacuees from Afghanistan desperate to board waiting charter flights out of the Taliban-ruled country. They say several dozen Americans, along with a much larger number of U.S. green card holders and family members, are among vulnerable Afghans waiting to board pre-arranged charter flights at the airport in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif that are being prevented from leaving. “We think we are in some kind of jail,” said one Afghan woman among the...