In One Day, Two Dead and 12 Injured in Chicago Shootings: From afternoon until evening on Monday, two people were killed and 12 others wounded on Chicago's South and West sides. The Chicago Sun-Times reports that the first shooting occurred at about 1 p.m. and the last at 11:48 p.m. Among the victims were an injured 14-year-old boy, who was shot while standing on a sidewalk, and a 17-year-old boy, fatally shot in the street. All of the other victims were young men in their 20s.
CO and Inmate Dead in PA Prison: An altercation at a Pennsylvania prison Monday night left a correctional officer and an inmate dead. The AP reports that the inmate has been identified as Tracy Gilliam, 27, who was serving time at Luzerne County Correctional Facility in Wilkes-Barre for failing to register as a sex offender. The name of the officer has yet to be released, as requested by the family. The prison has been on lockdown since the incident occurred and both the district attorney's office and the police department are investigating the incident.
CA AG Offers two Definitions of Rape as Violent Crime: California Attorney General Kamala Harris' recently released annual crime report revealed that violent crime jumped 10% in 2015 from the previous year, with a 36.1% increase in rape; however, another Harris document regards rape as a nonviolent crime. Dan Walters has this piece in the Sac Bee saying that the other Harris document -- her official summary of Gov. Jerry Brown's criminal sentencing measure on the November ballot -- "merely parroted Brown's wording" and shows that she "didn't do her homework on how it starkly conflicts with her own agency's definition of violent crime." Brown's measure would offer an easier path to parole for anyone convicted of a crime that is not classified as a "violent felony," including some forms of rape. The measure limits its definition of a "violent felony" rape to "sexual intercourse" by force, violence, extortion or threat but excludes several other forms of rape that Harris' crime report considers violent crimes, such as rape with a foreign object. Walters criticizes Harris for playing "political games with slippery definitions of violent crime."
CO and Inmate Dead in PA Prison: An altercation at a Pennsylvania prison Monday night left a correctional officer and an inmate dead. The AP reports that the inmate has been identified as Tracy Gilliam, 27, who was serving time at Luzerne County Correctional Facility in Wilkes-Barre for failing to register as a sex offender. The name of the officer has yet to be released, as requested by the family. The prison has been on lockdown since the incident occurred and both the district attorney's office and the police department are investigating the incident.
CA AG Offers two Definitions of Rape as Violent Crime: California Attorney General Kamala Harris' recently released annual crime report revealed that violent crime jumped 10% in 2015 from the previous year, with a 36.1% increase in rape; however, another Harris document regards rape as a nonviolent crime. Dan Walters has this piece in the Sac Bee saying that the other Harris document -- her official summary of Gov. Jerry Brown's criminal sentencing measure on the November ballot -- "merely parroted Brown's wording" and shows that she "didn't do her homework on how it starkly conflicts with her own agency's definition of violent crime." Brown's measure would offer an easier path to parole for anyone convicted of a crime that is not classified as a "violent felony," including some forms of rape. The measure limits its definition of a "violent felony" rape to "sexual intercourse" by force, violence, extortion or threat but excludes several other forms of rape that Harris' crime report considers violent crimes, such as rape with a foreign object. Walters criticizes Harris for playing "political games with slippery definitions of violent crime."
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