#recidivism

#recidivism

A Springfield man has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for killing his wife, a slaying that came 40 years after he was convicted of murdering a previous spouse. Kenneth Robson, 68, recently pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the death of 45-year-old Quitiza Holmes, the Hampden County District Attorney's Office said. He's been ordered committed to the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley.

In the years immediately following the pandemic, retail theft became a business-busting, job-killing plague in New York. Professional shoplifters used the five-finger discount more effectively than they had in years, grabbing whatever they could get their hands on and selling the hot commodities online for profit. The city and state fought back not by sending in armed troops, but with common-sense solutions.

Stephen Lumb, a 66-year-old sex offender with over 200 convictions, was jailed for breaching a sexual harm prevention order while drunk outside a Tesco.

"How do we reduce re-offending? How do we deal with people's drug addiction, mental health problems, the fact that people leave prison they don't know where to live, people don't have a job?"