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(AFP) — Singapore insisted Tuesday it would still cane a British man convicted of drug smuggling despite a plea from London not to proceed with the punishment.

Rap star Meek Mill said 19th century-era slave plantations and prisons in modern America are “no different” in a video published by the New York Times Monday.

The First Step Act — dubbed “prison release” by conservatives and law enforcement officials — will reduce sentences for drug traffickers while immediately resulting in the release of 4,000 inmates. 

A mixed race woman who has repeatedly assaulted, spat on, and racially abused police officers has been allowed to walk free from court by an Australian magistrate who called her “wonderful”.

Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Tuesday that makes California to be the first state to abolish cash bail for pre-trial incarcerations.

California Democrats in the State Senate voted Tuesday to eliminate money bail and grant judges control over pre-trial incarcerations.

A family member of one of the victims of the massacre of ten UN peacekeepers in 1994 during the Rwandan genocide has expressed outrage that Belgium is considering granting asylum to one of the men involved in the slaughter.

Over 40 per cent of terrorists convicted and imprisoned over the past decade will be back on the streets by the end of 2018, having served fairly light sentences.

An Egyptian adult who broke into Britain and claimed to be a Syrian child has been jailed for just three and a half years for the “severe and prolonged” rape of a vulnerable schoolgirl.

A Texas dad made a tough decision when his teenage son bragged about a “burglary spree” that included breaking into hundreds of cars, even stealing a police officer’s weapon from a parked vehicle — he called 911.

A teenage ‘refugee’ who strangled a young woman and sexually assaulted her has been spared prison, and even exempted from a “vigorous and intensive” sex offender treatment programme due to his poor English.

Official new guidance on “equal treatment” instructs judges to favour non-white defendants in order to “redress inequality”.

Theresa May’s Ministry of Justice is rolling the dice with the public’s safety by pressuring prison governors to release thousands of criminals early, according to The Times.

(ITV NEWS) — A violent attack on a West Midlands Police Officer has been caught on camera. PC Emma Agyei was assaulted after being called to a domestic incident in Wolverhampton.

Criminals could be allowed to sidestep charges if they agree to attend rehabilitation classes, under a scheme designed to reduce supposed “racial bias” in the criminal justice system.

Two Romanian brothers who were sentenced to 12 years in prison for the brutal rape of a London woman had been released from a French prison in 2016 after serving a sentence for rape.

An official Government report has recommended allowing criminals to avoid prosecution by signing up to rehabilitation therapy, in order to reduce the number of Black and Minority Ethnic convicts in the prison system.

The rape and exploitation of white girls by a gang of 17 mostly Pakistani men was not racially motivated, a judge has claimed.

Campaigners and MPs have demanded that the crimes of “Asian” grooming gangs who target white girls be treated as “racially aggravated”.

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) has teamed up with Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) to introduce a bipartisan bill that seeks to remove monetary bail requirements for people arrested while awaiting court dates.

Two years after the State threw out the sexual and satanic ritual abuse case against former Texas child day care owners Dan and Fran Keller, the Travis County District Attorney declared them “actually innocent” and dropped all existing charges, finally exonerating the couple who maintained their innocence since their 1992 convictions.

Paedophile refugee Wilfred Mosira will not be deported to his native Zimbabwe despite being in no danger there because it would “not be fair”, according to judges at the Court of Appeal.

A judge at Leicester Crown Court praised a Muslim van driver who deliberately mounted a pavement and ran down five men during Ramadan as “a good family man” who was behaving “completely out of character”.

The father of “affluenza” teen Ethan Couch was found guilty of falsely identifying himself as a police officer in a trial that lasted a day and a half.

Another Texas death penalty case was argued at the United States Supreme Court this week. The two questions presented was whether executing someone 35 years after the imposition of a death sentence, and allegedly using outdated medical standards to determine intellectual disability, is cruel and unusual punishment prohibited by the U.S. Constitution. The Eighth Amendment prohibits executing those who are intellectually disabled.

During Saturday’s Weekly Address, President Obama argued that “there is no contradiction between honoring police and recognizing the racial disparities that exist in our criminal justice system, and trying to fix these discrepancies.”

Some leftists push for criminal justice reform because so many of their supporters are in prison.

Former convict Malcolm B. Benson has been sentenced to life in prison for shooting Army veteran Stanley Carter last September, just as top GOP leaders are pushing GOP legislators to pass a criminal “reform” bill that would provide early release to many more criminals.

During Saturday’s Weekly Address, President Obama argued that the US does not have more people in prison than any other developed country “because we have more criminals.  It’s because we have criminal justice policies, including unfair sentencing laws, that need

Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson said that he believes “in many cases” ensuring the successful re-integration of prisoners into society “may mean we should be offering some practical training” and that it would be a lot cheaper to take

House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) is set to work with President Obama this year on the issue of criminal justice reform.

A London court has cleared a rich Saudi Arabian immigrant of raping an 18-year-old girl as she slept. He argued that he accidentally tripped and penetrated her with his erect penis, which just happened to be protruding from his underwear. “I

President Obama stated, “much of our criminal justice system remains unfair” during Saturday’s Weekly Address, where he touted criminal justice reform. Transcript as Follows: “Hi, everybody.  Thirty years ago, there were 500,000 people behind bars in America.  Today, there are 2.2

There have been a couple of disturbing signs lately that the United Kingdom no longer aspires to have one law for all, that instead UK Muslims are entitled to preferential treatment. Both signs take the form of extending special privileges to Muslim

Media supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement are praising Sen. Marco Rubio for comments he made seeming to express support for their anti-police organizing.

Kentucky Senator and Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul argued that if the GOP embraced criminal justice reform “we’ll win the Independent vote again, and win” at Monday’s Voters First Presidential Forum in New Hampshire. Rand stated, “I’m a different kind of