I hadn't heard this conspiracy theory about rap music before, but @cstross has filled me in!

Alix Lambert

In an alternate reality, the BAU team is called to Las Vegas to determine if the right man was convicted in a series of murders. (

In an alternate reality, the BAU team is called to Las Vegas to determine if the right man was convicted in a series of murders.

"Everyone who is imprisoned inside Norwegian prisons will be released – maybe not Breivik, but everyone else will go back to society. We look at what kind of neighbour you want to have when they come out. If you stay in a box for a few years, then you are not a good person when you come out. If you treat them hard… well, we don't think that treating them hard will make them a better man. We don't think about revenge in the Norwegian prison system. We have much more focus on rehabilitation. It is a long time since we had fights between inmates. It is this building that makes softer people."

 About 80 percent of those who are incarcerated in Utah suffer from some sort of addiction and a third of inmates are sex offenders, state corrections officials told Utah lawmakers yesterday. And Mike Haddon, Deputy Director of the Department of Corrections, says since 1982, the incarceration rate has grown by 408 percent. He says typically, the state contracts with county sheriffs for additional beds, but they anticipate the prison system will occupy all of them by 2015. So what does the state do after that?

Texas case went very badly

Louisiana is the world's prison capital. The state imprisons more of its people, per head, than any of its U.S. counterparts. First among Americans means first in the world. Louisiana's incarceration rate is nearly triple Iran's, seven times China's and 10 times Germany's.

A majority of Louisiana inmates are housed in for-profit facilities, which must be supplied with a constant influx of human beings or a $182 million industry will go bankrupt.

JackApps Media, LLC announced today that Prison Run 1.0 for iOS is going free for a limited time. Part strategy, part puzzle, part action, Prison Run takes you inside the walls of a heavily guarded prison to assume the role of prisoner turned escapee. Starting out randomly inside one of the many prison cells, your objective is to locate the prison keys and make it out before the timer runs out. Prison Run features stunning 3D graphics and dynamic game play.