A federal judge has ordered the Los Angeles County jail system to create an expert panel to oversee reform at Los Angeles County Men's Central Jail , one of seven LA country jails that was marred by racially-motivated riots by inmates earlier this year. US District Judge Dean Pregerson toured Men's Central in May, prompting [...]
David Safavian , former head of procurement for the US government, was convicted Tuesday of four of five felony charges stemming from the scandal surrounding former GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff . After five days of deliberations, a federal jury in Washington, DC, found Safavian guilty of obstructing an investigation by the General Services Administration , [...]
Two UK law enforcement associations denounced parts of the pending Police and Justice Bill on Tuesday and called on the House of Lords to amend it. In a press release , the Association of Chief Police Officers and the Association of Police Authorities said it would shift power to the Home Secretary, allowing him to [...]
The US District Court for the District of Arizona has rejected a bid by Latino and voter-advocacy groups to temporarily halt a requirement that voters show government-issued identification to prove that they are US citizens when they register to vote. The measure, which was approved in 2004 in an effort to stop voter fraud, is [...]
A former federal civil servant found guilty earlier this month of defrauding the Canadian government of more than $1.6 million in the so-called sponsorship scandal that helped bring down Canada's Liberal Party government in January was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison Monday. After seven days of deliberations, a jury in Montreal convicted Chuck Guité [...]
The Federal Bureau of Investigation encountered "numerous systemic problems" during its investigation of Zacarias Moussaoui prior to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks , "ranging from poor individual performance to more substantial systemic deficiencies that undermined the FBI's efforts to detect and prevent terrorism," according to a report first written in 2004 but released publicly Monday [...]
Newly released Pentagon documents provide evidence of "desperate and immoral conditions" at the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay prior to the three suicides there earlier this month, according to ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Monday released over 1000 pages of documents obtained from the military last week [...]
The Israeli government said Monday that it will review the path of the West Bank security barrier after the High Court of Justice last week ordered the state to take down a five-kilometer section of the barrier . The court ordered that the section surrounding the illegal Israeli settlement of Tzofit be dismantled because the [...]
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor was transported out of Sierra Leone to the Netherlands Tuesday to await trial by the Special Court for Sierra Leone , according to Sierra Leone Vice-President Solomon Berewa . Taylor's transport comes just one day after the SCSL authorized the transfer . The UN Security Council on Friday unanimously agreed [...]
Observers say President Bush could issue a pardon for former vice-presidential aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby following last week’s revelation that Karl Rove , Bush's top political advisor, will not face criminal charges in the three-year investigation into the leak of a CIA operative's name . This leaves Libby the only person indicted by Special [...]
