The percentage of inmates serving sentences for drug use has fallen over the past five years, largely due to community-based addiction treatment for people whose crimes were relatively minor, the Agency of Corrections said yesterday.The government uses deferred prosecution with court-mandated addict
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) plans to propose amendments to the Criminal Code to allow caning as a punishment for certain crimes, after a proposed caning referendum was vetoed by the Central Election Commission (CEC) last month, KMT Legislator Hung Meng-kai (洪孟楷) said yesterday.The party is p
Eduardo Metzker, 29, was riding his motorcycle in Rio de Janeiro when he was suddenly boxed in by two other bikes. One of the riders put a gun to his head and demanded his phone and passcode.The software developer watched with horror as the robbers drained up to 80,000 reais (about US$15,000) from h
