Hoover Planned Mass Jailing in 1950
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A declassified document shows J. Edgar Hoover had a plan to imprison 12,000 Americans he suspected of disloyalty.
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The proposal reflects a growing belief that the use of the detention facility is tainting the image of the U.S.
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Investigators are trying to find about 50 women who were photographed decades ago by a man now on death row for murdering two aspiring models in the early 1980s, authorities said Tuesday.
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Plans for boot camps sparked by election-driven debate about young immigrants and violent crime
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Officials are planning to propose a plea-bargaining system like that used in the United States which could see alleged terrorists get reduced gaol sentences.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. _ Faced with unprecedented prison overcrowding _ and the threat of a federal judge imposing an early release program as soon as this summer _ state officials Friday announced a temporary plan to transfer thousands of inmates against their will to out-of-state prisons.
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The FBI is considering reopening dozens of cold cases involving slayings suspected of being racially motivated in the South during the 1950s and '60s.
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Justice secretary has no 'definite intention' to build 2,500-person jails, following a critical report
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The justice secretary unveils plans aimed at cutting reoffending rates and drug use in prisons.
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An American charged with running a  private prison and torturing Afghans said Wednesday that he was  being set up by the FBI.
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A mass grave in Germany yields 51 bodies believed to be victims of the Nazi "euthanasia" programme.
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Convicted terrorism conspirator was once accused of plotting a "dirty bomb" attack in a major city.
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Federal prosecutors want former  investment banker Frank Quattrone to report later this month to  begin serving his 18 month sentence for obstruction of justice,  they said in court papers on Monday.
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KPMG suggests 500 billion to one trillion dollars in laundered worldwide annually by drug deals, arms traffickers and other criminals.
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Mark Thatcher, multi-millionaire businessman and son of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, had planned to flee South Africa shortly before he was arrested on charges of being involved in a coup plot to overthrow the government of the central
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The F.B.I. recently compiled a list of 51 victims of unsolved civil rights crimes from the 1950âs and 60âs.
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The merger of three prisons in the West Midlands will create Britain's biggest jail, the Prison Service has announced.