High Desert State Prison Inmate Stabbed to Death

An inmate at the High Desert State prison has been stabbed to death. Andrew Ryan Thurgood, 26 was serving time for a motor vehicle theft when the stabbing occurred at the corrections facility, located just outside Las Vegas. He was pronounced dead.

The drug Renagel is at the center of an interesting regulatory controversy right now. A doctor filed a petition with the FDA on May 3 arguing that Renagel should be de-approved or slapped with a drug Renagel " warning because it is.

I wrote a post not a free-for-all: it's regulation. It's regulation via the same powerful policy tools that we already use to control the manufacture and sale of prescription and over-the-counter drugs and recreational commodities like tobacco. One thing I had meant.

Earlier this month the SEC, in the first case of its kind against a municipality, ordered the City of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to cease and desist from violating the anti-fraud provisions of the federal securities laws. While the circumstances surrounding this order are.

Grits For Breakfast ran a post this weekend on the way the criminalization of gambling in Texas functions as "an example of irrationally punitive criminal justice policies actually making us less safe." Scott writes that Houston has between 300 and 400 illegal.

Around 1230 burglaries were reported in Vegas in November and this figure does not include automobile break-ins. On an average this accounts to 41 reports in a day. Burglary differs from robbery and one should not be confused with the other, according.

Candles and flowers were laid out at the very same spot outside a high school in North Las Vegas, where a 16 year old boy died from a gunshot wound. Walls filled with messages written in chalk in honor of Taylor Brantley,.

Once a renowned hit man for the Chicago Outfit, Frank Cullotta used to be a gangster with crimes such as murder, arson, burglary and extortion on his resume. In 1979, a con man by the name of Sherwin “Jerry” Lisner was killed.

Back in my pre-law existence once of the places I worked as a reporter was at the Los Angeles Times community newspaper The Daily Pilot, which covers the areas of Newport Beach and Costa Mesa. It's a small, scrappy paper that has.

The Washington Post has a response to Misha Glenny's insightful article on the failures of the war on drugs. Titled "The War Is Not Lost," it's a piece by former ONDCP spokesman Robert Weiner. It's full of encouraging statistics that don't map.