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Louisiana has the highest imprisonment rate in the country
No place in America or the world has a larger prison population per person than the state of Louisiana, according to an explosive report from The Times-Picayune. Louisiana’s incarceration rate is not only the largest in the country, but is triple the rate in Iran, seven times greater than in…
IMF chief to be charged with raping New York hotel maid
NEW YORK (AFP) – IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn will be charged with a “criminal sexual act, unlawful imprisonment and attempted rape,” a police official told reporters. Strauss-Kahn, widely expected to run for the French presidency next year, was detained Saturday and quizzed over an alleged sexual assault on a New…
American’s imprisonment delayed US-Afghan-Pakistan meeting
WASHINGTON – A scheduled high-level meeting among U.S., Afghan and Pakistani officials this month has been postponed, the State Department said on Saturday amid a deepening diplomatic rift over a U.S. man locked in a Pakistani jail accused of murder. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said the decision to scrap…
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