A group of NY inmates are so desperate to see the upcoming solar eclipse that they're suing to witness the phenomenon

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Total solar eclipse
The 2017 total solar eclipse at 100% totality.

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I trafficked $5 million worth of cocaine internationally — here's the full story of how I did it

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Pieter Tritton, a former cocaine smuggler, returns for a second interview with Business Insider about his experience trafficking drugs from South America to the United Kingdom.

How the Latin Kings gang actually works, according to a former member

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Andy "Rebirth" Pellerano is a former soldier for the Almighty Latin King Nation, or Latin Kings, one of the largest and most dangerous prison and street gangs in the United States.

Sam Bankman-Fried is in an 'inhumane' Brooklyn jail often criticized for its condition, and where Ghislaine Maxwell previously complained of rodents

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Sam Bankman-Fried arriving at court wearing a suit and tie, and the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
Sam Bankman-Fried and the Metropolitan Detention Center, Brooklyn.

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Texas just raised the price of bottled water in prisons by 50% amid one of the state's most extreme heat waves yet

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The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has raised the price of bottled water in their prisons by 50%.

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Inmates in North Korean prisons are raped, beaten, and starved, watchdog finds. Some eat roaches and rats just to survive.

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A female North Korean soldier guards the banks of the Yalu River near the Chongsong county of North Korea opposite the Chinese border town of Hekou, northeastern China's Liaoning province May 31, 2009.
A female North Korean soldier guards the banks of the Yalu River near the Chongsong county of North Korea opposite the Chinese border town of Hekou, northeastern China's Liaoning province May 31, 2009.

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