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Prisonbid is a forum that brings together those who have a connection to the prison system. Here you will find, others in the same or similar situation who can relate exactly to your experience. It's a place to share, talk, make friends and have some fun along the way.
Prisonbid is set up with forums named like a prison, with a Sallyport, Cellblock etc and as posts increase users find themselves getting prison slang titles such as fish (new inmate) to Old lag (old timer). The staff comprise of Trustys, Tankbosses and Asst Warden and Warden. It's a lighthearted approach to what many people have to deal with on a daily basis.
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Fairness of 100-year prison sentence for mentally disabled offender questioned
12:30 AM CDT on Wednesday, June 10, 2009
By EMILY RAMSHAW / The Dallas Morning News
AUSTIN – When an 18-year-old with profound mental disabilities performed sexual acts on a 6-year-old neighbor, the small town of Paris, Texas, was unforgiving. But Aaron Hart's punishment – 100 years in prison for a single incident – has stunned veteran disability rights advocates, who believed counseling, probation or even placement in a group home would have sufficed for a first-time offender with the mental maturity of a second-grader.
Aaron Hart "Aaron is 18, never committed a felony, had no violent record. He couldn't understand the seriousness of what he did," said his father, Robert Hart. "I never dreamed they would think about sending him to prison. When they said 100 years – it was terror, pure terror to me."
45-Year Term Suggested in Lawyer’s Fraud Case
Saturday, 09 August 2008 07:49 Gemini BENJAMIN WEISER
Published: July 8, 2009
Federal prosecutors recommended on Wednesday that a judge impose a 145-year sentence on Marc S. Dreier, the prominent New York lawyer who pleaded guilty to an elaborate scheme in which hedge funds and other investors, as well as clients, lost more than $400 million.
Exonerated prisoners' stories are depicted in artist's project
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
By Mary Thomas, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Sentenced to death for a double murder he did not commit. Exonerated after 14 years on death row."Daniel Bolick never expected to meet his Muse in the darkness he was navigating through. But out of torment came purpose and a clarity about the direction of his artwork that has taken him beyond anything he could have imagined.
The resultant series of paintings and drawings form his solo exhibition, "Resurrected," at the Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg. At 7 p.m. tomorrow he'll give a free gallery talk, "Damnation to Redemption," about his own path and those of the exonerated prisoners he depicts who once sat on death row or faced life imprisonment.
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