A New York jury decided on Wednesday that three-term Governor George Pataki did not violate the criminals' rights by authorizing a program to involuntarily commit them to mental instituions after they completed their sentences.
National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden has been approved and has left a Moscow airport, Russian lawyer Anatoly Kucherena told CNN
Daniel Chong, a university student in San Diego has received $4.1 million dollars from the U.S. government after he was abandoned for more than four days in a prison cell, his lawyer said, as reported by the BBC. Chong said he drank his urine to stay alive, and tried to carve a message to his mother on his arm
In an effort to get released from prison sooner rather than later where he is serving time for kidnapping and armed robbery, O.J. Simpson was granted parole on some of his convictions on Wednesday. Simpson was convicted for his involvement in the hold up of two sports memorabilia dealers at Las Vegas hotel room in 2007
