Times Jamison Bell is a good listener. In the recreation yard of the Pinellas County Jail, one inmate told him about stabbing a neighbor at a mobile home park. Inside a cell, another confided in Bell that he killed a man who owed him money for cocaine. View Full...
Reuters Police officers in the state of Nevada may soon be required to wear body cameras under a measure that was sent on Thursday to Governor Brian Sandoval for his signature. The proposal, approved by the state legislature, would make Nevada the second state in the...
OWH 6/13/17 Turns out, there’s a reason authorities want felons’ DNA. A recent push by Douglas County prosecutors to have prison officials collect the DNA of refusing prisoners netted a huge result Monday: Tests have connected a child rapist now in prison to the...
OWH 6/11/17 Slow down. Give the person space. Talk to him respectfully. That’s how police are advised to respond to an uncooperative person — someone like Zachary Bearheels — who is mentally ill. The primary goal: De-escalate the situation. View Full...
OWH 06/09/17 Nebraska prison officials say the number of inmates refusing to provide DNA samples has dropped to just 13 — as the State Corrections Department works to remedy missteps 20 years in the making. After a World-Herald investigation in April, department...
