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The brother-in-law of Vice President Kamala Harris appears to have engineered the greatest transfer of taxpayer dollars to left-wing groups in the history of the United States. Tony West, who is the husband of Harris’ sister Maya, served as the head of the Justice Department’s Civil Division and awarded massive settlements to groups aligned with the Democrats, even when the Department of Justice appeared to be winning the cases, The New York Post reported. “Until 1977, Congress had to approve any settlement of a civil suit against the Federal government over $100,000,” The Post reported. But facing numerous cases the...

Israel picked up the pace of its attacks on Iran on Monday, targeting the regime's notorious Evin prison as well as the headquarters of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, among other targets

VIDEOIsrael seems to have achieved a double header in Tehran in the wake of the big bombs dropped by the USA on the Iranian Nuke facilities. The headquarters of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards has been bombed AND the entrance to the Evin political prison has been destroyed as well. Will there be a massive prison escape as a result? This would be a very good time for the guards at that prison to call in sick.Have you noticed that "EVIN" is just one letter away from from being "EVIL?"

A Mexican national who federal prosecutors say illegally reentered the United States three times was sentenced to nearly a decade behind bars on drug charges. Anastacio Santiago Chaparro, 41, was found by police with a backpack that they say contained 10 kilos of cocaine that he was planning to sell. Chaparro, aka Arnoldo Urquidez, was previously charged in the United States with assault and re-entered the country twice before his most recent arrest. Anastacio Santiago Chaparro, 41, pleaded guilty in a Camden, NJ federal court to possession with intent to distribute cocaine and illegal reentry by a convicted felon. The...

R. Kelly allegedly overdosed in prison and was rushed to the hospital last week. In court documents obtained by The Post, the rapper’s attorney, Beau B. Brindley, claimed that Bureau of Prisons staff at his federal center in Butner, North Carolina intentionally gave him too much medication, which caused him to overdose and be transferred to a nearby hospital. The lawyer alleged that Kelly was forced to take mediation in solitary confinement on the night of June 12. The next morning, Kelly allegedly felt “faint” and “dizzy” and “started to see black spots in his vision.” The rapper also allegedly...

Disgraced former Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) spent some of his final hours as a free man Monday running errands with a fellow convicted felon, his wife Nadine. The couple was spotted walking side by side into an Englewood Cliffs, NJ credit union hours before the ex-senator is expected to report to a Pennsylvania federal prison to begin serving an 11-year sentence for bribery and corruption. Menendez, 71, will do his time at the Federal Correctional Institution Schuylkill in Minersville, Pa. The medium security facility, which has an adjacent minimum security satellite camp, houses more than 1,200 inmates and is about...

A Riverside County inmate sentenced to death was allegedly murdered in a state prison by another inmate, which led to a large mob attack on Friday morning, officials say.

The former police chief, convicted murderer and rapist dubbed the “Devil in the Ozarks,” was nabbed less than two miles from the Arkansas prison he escaped two weeks ago, authorities said Friday. Grant Hardin, 56, has evaded capture since walking out of Calico Rock prison on May 25 — despite searchers employing bloodhounds, officers on horseback, drones, helicopters and an elite US Border Patrol team. “Escapee Grant Hardin was captured this afternoon approximately 1.5 miles west of the prison grounds by law enforcement officials,” the Izard County Sheriff’s Office wrote on Facebook. “His identity was confirmed by fingerprint analysis prior...

A disgraced ex-Arkansas police chief who was serving 80 years in prison for rape and a shotgun-to-the-head execution escaped from a high-security prison disguised as a cop. Grant Hardin, 56, the former police chief of Gateway near the Arkansas-Missouri border, was seen on security cameras walking out of the North Central Unit prison, in Calico Rock, dressed in what appears to be a homemade law enforcement uniform on Sunday afternoon. Hardin, who is considered extremely dangerous, used the outfit to sneak through the controlled gate while inconspicuously pushing a cart full of utility materials, according to the Stone County Sheriff’s...

SNIPState officials have praised Butler Snow for its experience in defending prison cases – and specifically William Lunsford, head of the constitutional and civil rights litigation practice group at the firm. But now the firm is facing sanctions by the federal judge overseeing Johnson’s case after an attorney at the firm, working with Lunsford, cited cases generated by artificial intelligence – which turned out not to exist.It is one of a growing number of instances in which attorneys around the country have faced consequences for including false, AI-generated information in official legal filings. A database attempting to track the prevalence...

One of six inmates still at-large after a New Orleans jailbreak last week has been captured, and a jail worker who allegedly helped the inmates escape has been arrested, the Louisiana attorney general's office announced Tuesday. Sterling Williams, 33, an Orleans Parish jail maintenance worker, was arrested after admitting to helping the 10 inmates escape Friday. He is charged with 10 counts of principal to simple escape and one count of malfeasance in office. Williams said he turned off the water to the cell from which the inmates escaped, allowing them to dismantle a toilet and flee. Williams said one...

TR agreed to take down X posting of documentary, which everyone has already downloaded and circulated. So he's being released this week. Suzy Connolly has been incarcerated for tweet, is still being held for more than a year, has a young daughter. Already took down the tweet. Court ruled against her. Transcript linked to video.

Eleven inmates considered "armed and dangerous" escaped a New Orleans jail Friday morning, the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office said. The inmates were discovered missing during a routine headcount conducted at 8:30 a.m. at the Orleans Parish Jail, according to the sheriff's office. They are believed to have escaped sometime just after midnight. New Orleans Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick said one inmate has since been apprehended in downtown New Orleans through facial recognition, caught by a surveillance camera. Louisiana State Police identified the escapee as Kendall Myles and said Myles tried to flee on foot before being apprehended "without further incident."...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has called for closing another prison as part of his newly revised budget proposal. If that happened, it would be the fifth state prison that was closed during the Newsom administration. The Criminal and Judicial Branch portion of the Democratic governor’s budget, presented on Wednesday and subject to legislative approval, called for $13.6 billion for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. It also called for closing one of the state’s prisons by October 2026 to save an estimated $150 million. Newsom’s budget didn’t say which prison would be closed. In his budget, the governor noted...

The first video from inside El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison shows newly deported Tren de Aragua-accused migrants hollering from their cells. The scene unfolded as US representatives toured the facility with the country's president, Nayib Bukele. Video shows the caged men shouting and screaming as Reps Andy Ogles, Vicente Gonzalez, Anna Paulina Luna as well as former congressman Matt Gaetz made their way through. 'I saw evil today. I will never forget it,' Luna said of her visit. 'I heard a story of a MS-13 admitting to watching an infant being murdered. 'I watched and listened to another member of...

In today’s edition of why the Democrat Party must be forever obliterated and never again allowed to hold power, we learn 73 percent of Democrat voters and 80 percent of self-identified liberals want Elon Musk thrown in prison. “A new telephone and online survey … of 1,067 U.S. Likely Voters was conducted on April 30-May 4, 2025 … finds that 54% of Likely Voters would support a hypothetical law that would imprison Musk for his role in the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE),” reads the report. This includes “39% who would Strongly Support such a law.” Here’s the exact wording...

A year after his presidential ambitions collapsed, Gov. Ron DeSantis and his wife Casey can no longer lay claim to the future of the Republican Party. And in Florida, even their present is in jeopardy. Once firmly in his corner, many Sunshine State Republicans have lately turned on DeSantis, stymying his agenda and frustrating him to no end. At the same time, Casey DeSantis, long regarded as a political force in her own right, is encountering quiet but firm resistance as she lays the groundwork for a potential run to succeed her husband — a campaign that would pit her...

Ex con explains what Karmelo is in for. He says most inmates have phones and have most likely already seen Karmelo and are waiting.

National Guard members deployed in New York prisons have endured unacceptable treatment, including female members filmed changing clothes and exposure to noxious fumes from makeshift drug use, The Post has learned. Governor Kathy Hochul drafted in 8,200 members of the state National Guard and declared a state of emergency in February after an illegal strike by prison workers left facilities dramatically understaffed. However, after being mandated for duty, the guardsmen were badly trained and subjected to various horrors in the prison environment, according to a source. A group of eight female members stationed at the Taconic Correctional Facility in Bedford...

Trump administration border czar Tom Homan said Wednesday on FNC’s “Fox & Friends” that Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and other Democrats’ plans to go to El Salvador to conduct a welfare check on Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran migrant, was “disgusting.” Partial transcript as follows: LAWRENCE JONES: Truly incredible. This comes as House Democrats reportedly planning to send a delegation to the megaprison where he’s being held. Let’s bring in the man himself, border czar Tom Homan joins us now. Tom, I just want to focus on one portion when the senator said that he was abducted. As the...