punishment

  • I sentence you to Jail… or Church?

    Non-violent offenders in Bay Minette, Alabama have a choice: serve their sentence in jail and pay a fine or go to church for a year. It’s called Operation Restore Our Community or “ROC” and it’s mission is to cut the costs of having non-offenders in the prison system. Right...
  • Inmate defeats twelve guards on way to freedom using prison-made nunchucks

    An inmate escaped from St. Louis city jail on Friday after fighting off no less than 12 correctional officers with a pair of nunchucks that he had pieced together from a sheet and parts of a chair. After bashing his way through the security personnel, 31-year-old Lorenzo Pollard is...
  • Officers pwned by bath salts aficionado

    A 39-year-old Merrillville, Indiana man has got himself some explaining to do… police believe that one Stephen Perosky was under the influence of bath salts when he took a Taser from one police officer and used it on another. Police were dispatched to Perosky’s home after a 911 call....
  • You really, really, really don’t want to go to Russian prison

    Over my years on this planet I’ve met a few people who have spent time behind bars. Something that I gleaned from their stories is that each person’s experience will differ according to their own character and their country of imprisonment’s philosophy on crime and punishment. In some countries...
  • 11 year old boy arrested for drawing inappropriate stick figures in class.

    Police in Arvada have arrested a boy for being a potential threat over some inappropriate stick figures he drew in class, following the advise from his own therapist. The boy, authorities have chosen to call “Tim” to protect his identity, suffers from Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and was instructed...
  • Woman beats off robbers . . . with a handbag

    A daring, five-foot-nothing grandma in a red coat sprints across a street in Northhampton and gives a gang of sledgehammer-wielding toughs a good dose “what a naughty, naughty boy”, knocking one of them from his scooter and interrupting a robbery-in-progress. Pay close attention as an officer enters the frame...
  • The place Japan’s death row prisoners come to die

    At a glance the room looks like it would not be out of place in a Japanese company building. A small room, where one might entertain guests, or where the sales team might meet to crunch figures. Several things give the death chamber away: the pulley on the roof,...
  • Armed Robber Clobbered By Extremely Large, Somewhat Grumpy Gambler

    Azar Sulman lived to regret the day that he pulled a gun on a 114-kg Martin Richardson. Richardson, a 48-year-old father-of-six decided to take out his bad mood, the result of an unsuccessful day at the bookie’s, on his much smaller assailant – with a chair. After swinging the...
  • Chinese ‘Murderer’ Freed After ‘Victim’ Turns Out Not To Be Dead

    A Chinese man has been freed after spending 10 years in jail for a murder that he did not commit that never actually took place. Zhao Zuohai’s neighbor disappeared after the pair were involved in a physical altercation. When a headless, decomposed body was discovered a year-and-a-half later, police...