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U.S. Senate committee OKs Thomson prison funding By A U.S. Senate committee has approved funding to re-open the prison in Thomson as a federal facility. Sen. Dick Durbin is a member of the Appropriations Committee that approved $166 million Thursday to reactivate Thomson and two other prisons, buy 1,000 prison beds from private contractors and expand a program to reduce recidivism. The state opened the prison in northwestern Illinois in 2001 but never fully opened it because of budget problems. The federal government bought it for $165 million last fall. Durbin and Rep. Cheri Bustos (BOO’-stohs) — both Illinois Democrats...

O.J. Simpson's been an afterthought since he went to prison, but a report today that he was brutally beaten by skinheads in his prison cell has him back in the media spotlight. The National Enquirer, which gained noticeable sports cred when they broke the Tiger Woods scandal, reports that Simpson was "beaten unconscious in a brutal prison yard attack" and is now so messed-up mentally that he can't leave his cell. "Unfortunately for O.J., a group of young skinhead punks were within earshot - and they were enraged," Bruce Fromong, a former business partner of Simpson's told the Enquirer. The...

WASHINGTON -- If you're a criminal and you're not entitled to be in the United States, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano wants you out of the country. Napolitano wants what she calls "criminal aliens" off American streets. She is looking at existing immigration enforcement programs to see if taxpayers are getting the most bang for their buck. "That sounds very simple, but it's historically not been done," Napolitano said, speaking to reporters and senior Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials Thursday. About 113,000 criminals who were in the U.S. illegally were deported last year, Immigration and Customs Enforcement said. The agency...

Well it has happened once again. This time, two Yemeni men are claiming that the US kept them hostage for eighteen months in two 'secret' detention facilites and interrogated and tortured them. Amnesty International of course was all over the story adding to the legend of clandestine CIA torture chambers in far corners of the globe. I am not so naive tas to believe that we don't pull some shenanigans to get the information we need to protect our troops and innocent civilians, but AI has been given free reign by the media to lay out their claims to the...

Prison Escapees Found Dead In Local Landfill Pair Escaped From KSR Wednesday POSTED: 6:04 pm EDT July 14, 2005 UPDATED: 11:27 pm EDT July 14, 2005 TRIMBLE COUNTY, Ky. -- Hours after police confirmed a body found in an area landfill was that of one of two prison escapees, they said a second body found was the other inmate. Video State Trooper Describes How Body Was FoundSecond Escapee Found Hours After First Michael Talbot was identified at the Valley View Landfill in Trimble County Thursday shortly before 6 p.m., WLKY NewsChannel 32's Stephanie Segretto reported. The confirmation took place hours...

Proverbs 16:9 The heart of man plans his way, but the LORD establishes his steps CUMBERLAND, MARYLAND—Nineteen years ago in St. Louis, Lee Capper was preparing to graduate from Covenant Theological Seminary. Nicely perched at the top of his class he was eager to accept a quick and prestigious call—perhaps to an established church in a Florida suburb, to an assistant pastorate in a major downtown market, or to a new church plant—one stemming from a thriving congregation and ready to sprout in fertile new ground. Whatever his thoughts at the time, Capper dreamed of a life that bears little...

Support America's moral war To: Terrorist groups and all nations worldwide Whereas, enemies of the United States seeking to end America's war on terror, say that the Iraq abuse problem is morally equal or greater than 9/11; and Whereas, innocent victims of terror are being compared to prisioners of war and criminals; and Whereas, Jewish diaspora leaders have supported Israel war on terror but not yet strongly condemmed and acted against worldwide terrorism whereever and by whomever it is employed against; and Whereas, Israel's war on terror is different from the United States war on terror; Now therefore be it...

<p>KETZIOT, Israel (AP) --  Israel reopened a sprawling desert detention camp this week to hold some of the thousands of Palestinians it has rounded up during its 19-day West Bank sweep, an Israeli military official said Tuesday.</p> <p>The confirmation came after Associated Press reporters saw resumed activity at the Ketziot camp in the southern Negev Desert. Towering spotlights beamed down on the site and soldiers stood in guard towers. Civilian and military trucks entered and left and bright new Israeli flags and corps banners of the military police hung limply in the baking desert air.</p>