A crime paper flourishes by printing mug shots
By Patrik Jonsson, 2009.01.06 Tue
Christian Science Monitor

In Raleigh, North Carolina, Isaac Cornetti makes a living by selling copies of "The Slammer", a popular tabloid newspaper that carries police mugshots and rapsheets of recent arrests. Some people think it's a great idea so that people know what's going on around them, especially in an ostensibly safe city. Others doubt the ethics of putting arrestees in the court of public opinion before they are even sentenced for anything, a violation of the age-old "innocent until proven guilty". Apparently there are other newspapers like this in other cities that do the same kind of work.