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Prison Cell Phone Pic Shows Inmate Beaten With A Makeshift Leash Around His Neck

CellphonePrison — Correction officials confirmed Monday that Cortez Berry, serving 8-years on a robbery charge, is the man kneeling in this photo taken at the Burruss Correctional Training Center. Officials are investigating the situation.

Disgusting.

Barbaric.

Who cares?

Those are some of the comments surrounding what appears to be a degrading image smuggled out of the Burruss Correctional Training Center in Forsyth, Ga., of an 18-year-old prisoner. In one disturbing frame, the horrors of prison life are exposed, while also revealing the prison system’s ongoing struggle to keep them free of cell phones and other contraband.

It looks like a scene from the television show “Oz.”

Or, something out of ISIS. Continue reading “Prison Cell Phone Pic Shows Inmate Beaten With A Makeshift Leash Around His Neck”

World’s Oldest Woman Gives The Key To Her Long Life Before She Died

world-in-pic-4 — Misao Okawa was a few weeks shy of 117 years of age when she did on April 1, 2015.

Japan mourned the loss of the world’s oldest person Misao Okawa on 1 April [2015].

Iowa Newspaper Posts Black Burglary Suspects’ Mugshots, Posts White Burglary Suspects’ Yearbook Pictures

Iowa-Gazette-burglary-suspect-photos-800x430 — Iowa burglary suspects Photo: Iowa Gazette

An Iowa newspaper is accused of pro-white bias after it handled the same alleged crime between two different sets of suspects in radically different ways.

Blogger Rafi D’Angelo at SoLetsTalkAboutIt.com pointed out that in reports filed on successive days, the The Gazette in Cedar Rapids printed mug shot photos of black burglary suspects and yearbook photos for white burglary suspects. Continue reading “Iowa Newspaper Posts Black Burglary Suspects’ Mugshots, Posts White Burglary Suspects’ Yearbook Pictures”