Addiction – or substance abuse disorder – is a psychiatric condition that causes people to lose control of their drug-taking behaviour. Many people underestimate the powerful condition, assuming that people continue to abuse drugs due to laziness, selfishness, or being weak-willed. However addiction impacts the reward and decision-making centres of the brain, redirecting an individual’s […]
Ongoing efforts to reform and improve life in prison so that inmates can be rehabilitated rather than simply punished have resulted in a number of significant changes in recent years. One of the biggest areas of attention is on the proliferation of problems relating to racism and the widespread presence of gang culture in prison […]
Lori Laughlin and Mossimo Giannulli have had some rough journeys. The couple was accused of bribing college admissions, as they wanted to get her daughter to be in the top athletic class. Now, they are trying to find a way out of everything, and after they couldn’t get their charges to drop, as a plea […]
Tennessee law makes it legal to charge a woman with child abuse and assault if she takes illegal narcotic substances while pregnant. The first woman who was arrested under this new law was a 26-year old woman whose baby girl tested positive for methamphetamines after being born. The woman was reportedly arrested on her way out of the hospital. Although she […]
Rush to the hi-fi and cue up your most triumphant, jangly and celebratory version of “All I Want For Christmas Is You,” because Juicy Joe Giudice got his wish — his precious angel, Teresa, is out of prison!!! According to Page Six, Tre was released at 5:01 Wednesday morning, straight to the loving arms of…someone. […]
If you read Piper Kerman’s memoir Orange Is The New Black or binge-watched the Netflix adaptation (and who hasn’t done that?), chances are you have wondered about the real-life woman behind Nora (in the book) and Alex Vause (the character in the show). For the first time ever, 51-year-old novelist and PhD student Catherine Cleary […]
The sun is shining, the weekend of beautiful debauchery is starting and we are now gifted with a new track from Gucci Mane. This truly marks one of those rare life-moments where we are showered in blessings, especially considering the fact that Gucci Mane just got released from prison yesterday. A truly generous woman of the people, Gucci’s […]
“Dogs On The Inside” follows the connection between abused stray dogs and a group of prison inmates who care for them. As a method of gearing up the inmates for the responsibilities of life after prison, they’re tasked with training the neglected dogs and teaching them to trust humans again. They come to find out that […]
