Questions tagged [prisoner]
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Was Israa Jaabis tortured or subjected to mutilation?
A video (graphicy content and heartbreaking) was posted on the X platform (formerly known as Twitter) showing a Palestinian woman who freed in the recent Hamas-Israel prisoner exchange. The user (and ...
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Did Brother Yun escape a maximum security prison without help?
Liu Zhenying (known as Brother Yun) is an exiled Chinese Christian evangelist.
Supposedly, he was sentenced to a maximum security prison some time ago and escaped miraculously, and "without any ...
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Were many former American slaves put back into virtual slavery after the civil war?
The ACLU has been a critic of the 13th amendment to the US constitution for some time, claiming that the clause that reads that slavery shall not exist "except as a punishment for crime whereof the ...
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Melanie Shaw secret trial and incarceration [closed]
I've seen this post a few times on social media:
https://www.facebook.com/608847352/posts/10155395745027353/
It claims Melanie Shaw made accusations about members of the Tory party and has been tried ...
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Has anyone ever attempted to give a cake—or other baked good—with a file or saw in it to someone in prison to help them escape?
One common trope in fiction over the decades has been someone putting a file in a cake—or other baked good—that then is passed onto someone in prison to help them escape. As the website TV Tropes ...
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In California, does it cost more to send someone to prison than to send them to Stanford?
According to Bernie Sanders' Facebook page:
Is this statement true?
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Are incarcerated pedophiles protected by special laws in federal prison in the US?
Andrew Auernheimer (aka. weev) is reported to have said last Friday:
"Did you know they have special laws to protect kid-fuckers in federal
prison?” Andrew Auernheimer asked me with a grin on his ...
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Is there a connection between the declination of a last meal and whether or not a person’s guilt has been posthumously disputed and challenged?
The documentary Last Supper (IMDb / full video on Vimeo) by Mats Bigert, and Lars Bergstrom released in 2005 suggests that there is a connection between the declination of a last meal and whether or ...
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If one goes to prison, does beating up someone on the first day increase chances of survival?
Related (slightly): Rape in US prisons
Two movies I know of, one I recently watched, suggest that if one is going to prison, the best way to survive is to find someone on the first day and beat the ...
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Can you put a gag in someone's mouth to prevent them from talking?
I don't get this, I see it on crime TV programs a lot, they stuff a cloth in the mouth of someone so they can't scream/shout for help.
I put a sock in my mouth once, it was pretty easy to push it out ...