I met Dorje Gurung in 1996 during my second year at an international school in Norway. I was a long way from home — I grew up in South Africa — but… Original post on change.org Comments on reddit.com
Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling will still serve years in prison, according to lawyer, but much earlier than 2024 release date. Original post on cnn.com Comments on reddit.com
A mass hunger strike has been unfolding in the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison for over two months now. RT has been badgering the UN, prison officials, detainees’ attorneys and activists to get a full account of the situation. Original post on rt.com Comments on reddit.com
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – It’s been dubbed the most expensive prison on Earth and President Barack Obama cited the cost this week as one of many reasons to shut down the detention center at Guantanamo – MSN Money Original post on msn.com Comments on reddit.com
Disgraced Pennsylvania judge Mark Ciavarella Jr has been sentenced to 28 years in prison for conspiring with private prisons to sentence juvenile offenders to m Original post on examiner.com Comments on reddit.com
LAWRENCE — A Methuen High School student charged with threatening to outdo the Boston Marathon bombings, posting on his Facebook page he would Original post on tribune.com Comments on reddit.com
US President Barack Obama pledges a new push to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, amid a growing prisoner hunger strike there. Original post on bbc.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
Accused of perpetrating a “profound evil,” former Pennsylvania judge Mark Ciavarella Jr. has been sentenced to 28 years in prison for illegally accepting money from a juvenile-prison developer while he spent years incarcerating thousands of youn… Original post on allgov.com Comments on reddit.com
The surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings has been moved from the hospital to a federal prison 40 miles away that provides specialized medical care, the government said Friday. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was moved from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where he has been h … Original post on nbcnews.com Comments on reddit.com
Last week Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm was charged with hacking into companies and a bank. While it’s no surprise that the news traveled quickly through the media, one might have expected that Gottfrid himself would be one of the first to hear the news. But Gottfrid’s mother Kristina informs TorrentFreak that her son learned of the charges by watching TV news in his cell. Even today he still hasn’t seen a copy of the lawsuit. Original post on torrentfreak.com Comments on reddit.com
A new ACLU report accuses Ohio courts of imprisoning people who are unable to pay court fees. Original post on rt.com Comments on reddit.com
From Yahoo! News: By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) – The U.N. human rights chief called on the United States on Friday to close down the Guantanamo prison camp, saying the indefinite imprisonment of many detainees without charge or trial violated international law. Navi Pillay said the hunger strike being staged by some inmates at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in southeastern Cuba was a Original post on yahoo.com Comments on reddit.com
For years, Brian Banks wore a prison inmate uniform. Now exonerated, he’ll be wearing an Atlanta Falcons jersey. Original post on cnn.com Comments on reddit.com
Nathan Blanc has spent more than 100 days in prison over the past 19 weeks due to his refusal to enlist in Israeli army Original post on guardian.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
A 19-year-old California man is sentenced to two and a half years in prison for shining a laser pointer at two aircraft. Original post on bbc.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
A man who spent more than 20 years in a Nevada prison for a crime he didn’t commit could be on the hook for three more crimes if the state of Florida has its way. Original post on 8newsnow.com Comments on reddit.com
We’ve written a few times about the case of Andrew Auernheimer, perhaps better known as weev. While he has a bit of a reputation as an online troll, and self-admitted jerk, his case is yet another example of how ridiculously broken the CFAA… Original post on techdirt.com Comments on reddit.com
The former girlfriend of computer hacker Aaron Swartz is lashing out at the US Justice Department after Attorney General Eric Holder defended the prosecution that some say drove the prodigy into committing suicide. Original post on rt.com Comments on reddit.com
Crime is Slate’s crime blog. Like us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter @slatecrime. In 1996, noted criminologist Jewel asked a question that has long haunted those hoodlums prone to pondering the existential consequences of their actions: “Who will save your souls after those lies that you told, boy?” For generations of… Original post on slate.com Comments on reddit.com
On Bastoy prison island in Norway, the prisoners, some of whom are murderers and rapists, live in conditions that critics brand ‘cushy’ and ‘luxurious’. Yet it has by far the lowest reoffending rate in… Original post on guardian.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
The Saudi royal family has intervened to block the release of a ‘celebrity’ preacher accused of raping, torturing and killing his five-year-old daughter. Original post on independent.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
Exclusive: Inside A Secret CIA Prison In The Polish Countryside | Worldcrunch – Great stories from the world’s best news sources Original post on worldcrunch.com Comments on reddit.com
(AP) — A mother convicted of prostituting her 7- and 14-year-old daughters using online ads across south-central Nebraska is facing as many as 110 years in prison after she was sentenced again this week. Last month, the 36-year-old woman pleaded no contest in Buffalo County to conspiracy to commit child sexual assault and two felony counts of child pornography possession and was sentenced to 80 to 90 years in prison. The Nebraska State Patrol said the woman placed a personal ad online offering female companionship. Original post on seattlepi.com Comments on reddit.com
WARSAW (Reuters) – Lawyers for two men who say they were held illegally in a secret CIA jail on Polish territory argue that a landmark criminal investigation into the black site is being stalled because Original post on reuters.com Comments on reddit.com
Ex-CIA officer John C. Kiriakou became the first person to be sentenced to prison for issues related to torture at Guantanamo Bay on Friday– because he talked about, but did not participate in, Original post on thinkprogress.org Comments on reddit.com
DALLAS (AP) — A Dallas woman convicted in the dehydration death of her 10-year-old stepson has been sentenced to 85 years in prison.Tina Marie Alberson was convicted Friday of injury to a child, a second-degree felony, in the July 2011 death of Jonathan James. The boy was denied water for days during record-high temperatures.Alberson was sentenced Tuesday. The 44-year-old stepmother had faced up to life in prison because of a previous felony conviction.Alberson, who testified in her own defense, told jurors that she limited Jonathan’s water intake a few times as punishment for misbehaving, but saw no sign that he was in medical distress.The boy’s twin brother testified that Jonathan repeatedly asked for water and pretended to use the bathroom so he could sneak a drink from the faucet. Original post on ap.org Comments on reddit.com
Carmen Ortiz was being talked about last month as the next Massachusetts governor. Now she’s being investigated for threatening the late Aaron Swartz with decades in prison. Read this article by Declan McCullagh on CNET News. Original post on cnet.com Comments on reddit.com
