WASHINGTON — The kind of systemic failures that enabled the high-profile prison deaths of notorious gangster Whitey Bulger and financier Jeffrey Epstein also contributed to the deaths of hundreds of other federal prisoners over the years, a watchdog report released Thursday found. Mental health care, emergency responses and the detection of contraband drugs and weapons […]
Artist Andrei Molodkin has decided to put $45 million worth of artwork on the line in protest of the imprisonment of Julian Assange. The paintings, including works by Warhol, Rembrandt, and Picasso will be destroyed. if Wikileaks founder Assange dies in prison, British broadcaster Sky News reports. How Molodkin […]
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – Inmates at a Mississippi prison were forced to mix raw cleaning chemicals without protective equipment, with one alleging she later contracted terminal cancer and was denied timely medical care, a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday alleges. Susan Balfour, 62, was incarcerated for 33 years at the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility until her […]
Another American has been imprisoned in Russia on what looks to be trumped-up charges. A Texas man has been found guilty of abusing his two sons by a Russian court. The case had been investigated in Texas and found to be without merit. David Barnes, 66, has been detained since January 2022 in Russia. Barnes, […]
An Iraqi man who sought to bring in an Islamic State hit squad to kill former President George W. Bush has been sentenced to more than 14 years in prison. Shihab Ahmed Shihab Shihab blamed Mr. Bush for Iraq’s chaos after the 2003 U.S. invasion and toppling of Saddam Hussein. Judge Michael H. Watson slapped […]
A prosecutor is defending the decision to sign off on a plea deal getting a “transgender” convicted of sexually molesting an infant out of prison time. The Spectator had the exclusive Feb. 9 on McCracken County Commonwealth’s attorney Dan Boaz’s excuses about the plea bargain. According to Boaz, the 300+ days the sexual criminal […]
Patrick Mahomes Sr. could face a prison sentence of 10 years if he is convicted on a charge of driving while intoxicated, which would be his third. The 54-year-old father of Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes was arrested Saturday on a DWI charge, according to an arrest affidavit from the Smith County Sheriff’s Office […]
Prosecutors called it a “digital Pearl Harbor.” In a domestic espionage case that hasn’t gotten nearly the public attention it deserves, a former CIA employee who worked in an elite computer intelligence unit has been sentenced to four decades in prison for crimes that included exposing United States secrets in the cyberintelligence world. And the […]
A medical biller has been sentenced to 12 years in federal prison after being convicted in a massive insurance fraud scheme that involved posing as an NBA player and other patients to harangue the companies for payments that weren’t actually due, prosecutors said. U.S. District Judge Joanna Seybert called Matthew James’ actions “inexcusable” as she […]
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — A Tunisian corruption court that has targeted many government critics tripled the prison term facing a businessman who challenged President Kais Saied in the 2019 presidential election. Nabil Karoui – a populist media mogul who has been plagued by charges since being imprisoned in the lead-up to that election – was […]
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