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NY Teen Gets 6 Years In Beating Of Immigrant

The April 5 assault on Rodolfo Olmedo was the first of a series of suspected anti-Hispanic bias attacks in the borough’s Port Richmond section.

2011/01/06

Prison (credit: AP)

NJ Man Released From Prison Day After Commutation

A Corrections Department spokeswoman says 27-year-old Brian Aitken, who was found with guns he’d purchased legally in Colorado, left Mid-State Correctional Facility Tuesday morning.

2010/12/21

Gavel (credit: CBS 2)

NJ Man Gets 35-Year Term For Killing Wife

Convicted for the second time in the bludgeoning and strangulation death of his wife, a New Jersey man is headed back to state prison.

2010/11/13

Alan Newton (credit: CBS 2)

Man Cleared In 1984 Rape Gets $18.5M From NYC

Alan Newton was cleared by DNA evidence in 2006. He’d been sentenced in 1985 to up to 40 years in prison after being convicted of raping a woman in an abandoned building.

2010/10/20

A Jail Cell - File / Photo: JEFF HAYNES/AFP/Getty Images

Should Prisoners Get To Read Violent Books?

The CT Dept. of Correction is revising its library policy in the wake of an investigation that found inmates had unrestricted access to works depicting graphic violence.

2010/10/07

New York City Subways

Man Held In NY Terror Plot Faces Extradition Hearing

Abid Naseer appeared by video link from prison Tuesday for a hearing at a London court.

2010/10/05

Prison (credit: AP)

NJ Goes High-Tech To Eliminate Prison Cell Phones

Cell phones are illegal in jails and prisons, and officers are supposed to be on the front lines of keeping them out.

2010/10/03

Andrew Cuomo

Cuomo Charges Debt Collector Who Targeted Military

Lowinger was the latest in a number of debt collectors caught in the attorney general’s office’s crackdown on the industry.

2010/09/28

Gavel (credit: CBS 2)

Prison Term For Elderly Man In Wife Killing

A 90-year-old western New York man has been sentenced to 17 1/2 years in prison for battering his wife of nearly 68 years to death with a hammer.

2010/09/08

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