Articles by Lisa Iaboni
The Radio Show That Reunited Inmates and Families
It was 11 o’clock on a Friday night in mid-December and Lessie Gardner had already taken a bus 100 miles from her home in Washington, D.C., to the Richmond, Va., Greyhound station. Soon she would board a 15-passenger van for a seven-hour drive to a small town near the Kentucky border. Her ultimate destination was a supermax state prison called Red Onion. It holds 800 inmates, one of whom was her son, Michael. She had not seen him in 15 years.
‘So This Is What a Murderer Looks Like’
Sara Bennett has been a criminal defense lawyer in New York for 30 years. She has represented men and women who have committed terrible acts; many have spent decades in prison, some have died there. “The longer you’re an attorney the more serious your cases are,” she said, recalling a 16-year-old client who was sentenced to life without parole for murder. “I never forgot him.” “When you send people away for life,’’ she says, “you’re saying there’s no hope.
What’s in a Prison Meal?
Inmates at the Gordon County Jail in Calhoun, Ga. — according to a preliminary investigation by human rights attorneys last fall — are starving. The two meals a day weren't enough to sustain them, and some reportedly resorted to eating toothpaste and toilet paper. Inmates at the Montgomery County Jail in New York alleged that meager portions led to increased violence among the inmates; one inmate lost 90 pounds in less than six months.
A Department of Defense Gift Guide 2014
Get Carried Away Utility Helicopter UP TO $922k Get Carried Away Utility Helicopter. Total Given: 96. Total Value: $88m. Total given 96 Total value $88m Top recipient U.S. State Department’s narcotics enforcement branch in Florida (41) A Department of Defense Gift Guide 2014 (Just pay shipping and handling.) By Tom Meagher, Andy Rossback and Lisa Iaboni Shopping for holiday gifts for your local police department, park ranger or campus security team? How about an “interim fast attack vehicle”?
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