Although itâs too late for the 2007 tax filing season, itâs not too late to keep track of your treatments for 2008. Yes, Acupuncture is tax deductible! The costs of acupuncture and prescribed herbal medicine are indeed deductible medical expenses.
America's longest-serving innocent prisoner receives $1m for 39 years in jail. Ohio resident Ricky Jackson, the longest-held US prisoner to be cleared of a crime, to receive more than $1 million from the state for his wrongful imprisonment. Ricky Jackson leaves the courthouse in Cleveland, Ohio, in 2014 Photo: Reuters.
Simpson is currently serving a 9 to 33 year sentence on robbery and kidnapping charges. The former NFL running back was found not guilty of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman on October 3, 1995. Simpson's purported predicament is emblematic of larger problems in America's prison health care system. Specifically, groups like the American Civil Liberties Union have documented instances in which private, for-profit companies are awarded contracts to care for a state's prison population.