Category: True Crime

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

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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”

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

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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”

The Family Of 8 Year Old Boy Killed By Boston Bomber Testifies During Trial

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A photo of Martin Richard, the 8-year-old boy killed in the Boston Bombing. Photo: Boston Globe

An 8-year-old boy who once urged people to “stop hurting each other” was literally blown apart by a homemade bomb as he watched the 2013 Boston Marathon with his family, jurors heard Monday.

Federal prosecutors rested their case with grisly testimony about how the bomb Dzhokar Tsarnaev placed near the marathon’s finish line tore through the bodies of Martin Richard and Lingzi Lu, a 23-year-old grad student.

A second bomb placed by Tsarnaev’s brother, Tamerlan, killed Krystle Campbell, a 29-year-old restaurant manager. Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in a gun battle with police three days after the bombing. Continue reading “The Family Of 8 Year Old Boy Killed By Boston Bomber Testifies During Trial”