California corrections officials have released this photo of Charles Manson taken today. The 40th anniversary of the killings for which he was convicted will be this August.

Both crime and prison populations could be reduced dramatically by focusing on the “power few” criminals who commit the most crime, according to Lawrence Sherman, Director of the Jerry Lee Center of Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania and Professor of Criminology at Cambridge University, UK. His paper will be published online this week in Springer’s Journal of Experimental Criminology.

Now thieves can break into your home without leaving any trace they were even there, thanks to a phenomenon called lock bumping. There are 22 million homes and four million commercial premises in the UK. On average, each has three locks. Of those, 65% are Yale style rim locks and these are falling prey to a new type of crime, ‘cylinder bumping’ or ‘lock bumping’ as it is known.

South Carolina's Republican Treasurer, Thomas Ravenel, has been indicted on federal cocaine charges. I wonder what kinda of spin will come from the Rudy Giuliani campaign since Ravenel is the state chairman for Rudy's presidential campaign. You know, the same Rudy that Vitty-cent has endorsed. I think Oyster is right, it's the gift that keeps giving.