Chicago aldermen are set to consider the city’s largest police misconduct settlement ever: a $50 million deal for four men imprisoned after detectives allegedly forced their false confessions as teens. The hefty sum would go to the four who were originally convicted in a 1995 double murder. The men were arrested and tried as teens […]
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Iowa Student Loan stopped using confessions of judgment. Regulators praise our practices.
Editor’s note: The April 21 Register editorial “Student borrowers shouldn’t be asked to sign away their rights” noted court filings within the preceding month when Iowa Student Loan had filed previously signed confessions of judgment in court proceedings. By signing a confession of judgment, the borrower had waived all rights to participate if Iowa Student […]
25 Secrets And Confessions From Surgeons That Show What’s Really Going On Behind The Scenes
I’ve definitely watched every single season of Grey’s Anatomy all the way through, but I still don’t truly know what it’s like to be a real-life surgeon. Since I was curious, I decided to ask the surgeons of the BuzzFeed Community: “What’s the biggest secret about your job that nobody knows?” Here’s what they had […]
What Happened on Night 1 of ‘The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard’
“Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links.” The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard are a culmination of 18 months of interviews, over the phone and in prison, with the titular Gypsy Rose Blanchard. The Lifetime docuseries, airing nightly through Sunday, marks one of the first times […]