Questions tagged [prisoner]
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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 explains:
The stereotypical way to smuggle escape…
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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 party shall have been duly convicted" is a loophole…
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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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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 with my tongue, gg.
So is this nonsense? I can't…
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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 hell out of them. The idea is that if others get…
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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 human help" - according, supposedly, to an…
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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 face. “I can't
hit them, it's a five year felony…
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Melanie Shaw secret trial and incarceration
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 and held in secret.
Is there any truth to this?
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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 not a person’s guilt has been posthumously…
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