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Judge to decide in April whether to delay prison for Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes

Holmes was sentenced to 11 years in prison for defrauding investors out of more than $100 million. Now, she has asked a judge to remain free on bail until her appeal is heard.

WEKU

Elizabeth Holmes returns to court in bid to avoid prison

Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes has made what might be her final court appearance before beginning a 11-year prison sentence

The Independent UK

An Oregon Man Was Wrongly Imprisoned for Almost a Year Because of an Error in a DMV Database

The Oregon DMV knew about the problem, but it "wasn't at a high enough level to understand the urgency" of the need to fix it.

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Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Herring monitors, state-created dangers, and kicking out the jams.

Reason

ISIS 'Beatle' is moved to supermax prison after mental health appeal fails

El Shafee Elsheikh was sentenced in August to a full-life stretch, and has now been sent to ADX Florence in Colorado to serve out his sentence

Daily Mirror

Former Air Force officer gets prison term for Capitol attack

A retired Air Force officer who stormed the U.S. Capitol dressed in combat gear and carried zip-tie handcuffs into the Senate gallery has been sentenced to two years in prison

The Independent UK

Derek Chauvin, Minneapolis officer who killed George Floyd, pleads guilty in tax case

MINNEAPOLIS — The former Minneapolis police officer imprisoned for the murder of George Floyd plead guilty Friday in Washington County District Court to two counts of tax evasion.

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He's a very bad influence on you'... Prison nurse who struck up relationship with drug boss inmate lived luxury lifestyle, splashing cash on designer clothes and an Audi A5

Georgia Harkness first met Ashley Blackett in prison

Manchester Evening News

Inside Abu Ghraib prison where US tortured Iraqi detainees in horrendous war crimes

WARNING DISTRESSING CONTENT: On March 20, 2004, the US and UK Coalition invaded Iraq on the false belief that dictator Saddam Hussein was manufacturing weapons of mass destruction and planned to use them on his own people

Daily Mirror

Rep. Harold Rogers brings influence to appropriations role

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden kicked off the fiscal 2024 appropriations process last week with a budget request that renewed a proposal to eliminate funding for the construction of a new federal prison in eastern Kentucky.

Tribune News Service

Prisoners serving whole life sentences would be banned from marrying under new plan

The move would likely be challenged

Wales Online

Whole life sentence prisoners face ban from marrying under Government plans

It comes amid anger over a bid by Levi Bellfield to challenge a decision blocking the serial killer from marrying in prison.

The Independent UK

Former Illinois prison guard gets 20-year sentence for fatal beating

In pleading for leniency Alex Banta said he took a job as a prison guard at 23 and had no idea how it would change him.

Chicago Sun-Times

Dominic Raab’s warning over serial killer Levi Bellfield’s prison marriage bid

The Justice Secretary said there was a risk to anyone wanting to marry such an offender.

The Independent UK

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Daily Mirror

Charles Bronson speaks in prison tapes - Tom Hardy, sex fantasies and violence

WARNING - OFFENSIVE CONTENT: Charles Bronson, 70, recalls extraordinary events during nearly 50 years in jail - from meeting Tom Hardy, his sex fantasy should he get out of prison and alleged brutality he faced behind bars

Radio France Internationale

Supporters of jailed Russian dissident Navalny recreate his cell in Paris

The support team of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny have installed a small concrete box marked with the word SHIZO (meaning punishment cell in Russian) behind the Louvre Museum in Paris, to try and raise awareness over his dire conditions of detention.

Los Angeles Times

Anita Chabria: 'Ending San Quentin as we know it': California rethinks what prison means

CHESTER, Pa. — Luis went to prison on a life sentence 16 years ago, at age 17. Food came on a tray and leftovers were removed on the same brown plastic rectangle.

The Independent UK

Former Guantanamo prisoner: Ron DeSantis watched me being tortured

Mansoor Adayfi says the brutal force-feeding methods employed on Guantanamo prisoners like him amounted to torture. He tells Richard Hall that Ron DeSantis watched it happen

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Iran Rearrests Female Activist Hours After her Release

Iranian security forces rearrested prominent activist and journalist Sepideh Gholian hours after she walked free from jail chanting slogans against supreme leader Ali Khamenei, activists said Thursday. Gholian, 28, was freed Wednesday from Tehran's Evin prison after spending over four years behind bars following a conviction related to her reporting…

WEKU

Jim Gordon, a famed session drummer who was convicted of killing his mother, dies

Jim Gordon, the famed session drummer who backed Eric Clapton and The Beach Boys before being diagnosed with schizophrenia and going to prison for killing his mother, has died. He was 77.

The Independent UK

California will remake San Quentin prison, emphasizing rehab

California Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to transform San Quentin State Prison, a facility in the San Francisco Bay Area known for maintaining the highest number of prisoners on death row in the country

The Guardian - US

‘Ending San Quentin’: plan would turn prison into ‘Norwegian style’ rehab center

Gavin Newsom wants to overhaul California’s oldest prison into a facility focused on training programs and education

AAP

Man must spend 14 years in jail for ex-partner's murder

A man who killed his ex-partner and left her body in a bathtub has been sentenced to at least 14-and-a-half years in prison after pleading guilty to murder.

The New Daily

Wife killer will likely spend rest of life in prison

John Douglas Bowie, who murdered his wife more than four decades ago, will likely die in custody after being sentenced to 24 years in prison in NSW.

The Independent UK

California to transform prison with death row legacy

California Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to transform San Quentin State Prison, a facility in the San Francisco Bay Area known for maintaining the highest number of prisoners on death row in the country

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