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1h ago Bank Chairman Who Secretly Drained $23.6 Million From Depositors Gets 62 Months in Federal Prison
2h ago Curtis Flowers, a Black man whose death sentence was tossed by Supreme Court, dies in Mississippi
3h ago To reduce reoffending, prisoners need better support after release
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Harvey Weinstein sentenced to 16 years in prison in Los Angeles

Weinstein was found guilty of rape and other sexual misconduct charges involving a woman last December.

The Independent UK · Feb 23, 2023

Harvey Weinstein will likely spend the rest of his life in prison after LA sentence

Once one of the most powerful men in Hollywood, the 70-year-old former film producer will most likely spend the rest of his life in prison. He is already serving a 23-year sentence in New York.

WEKU · Feb 23, 2023

Harvey Weinstein sentenced to 16 more years in prison in Los Angeles rape case

Sentence comes two months after Weinstein was convicted of one count of rape and two counts of sexual assault

The Independent UK · Feb 23, 2023

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R Kelly to serve extra year in jail on top of 30-year sentence for sex offences

US District Judge Harry Leinenweber ordered that Kelly serve one year in prison.

Daily Record · Feb 23, 2023

Harvey Weinstein sentenced to 16 years in prison for rape and sexual assault

Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 16 years in prison after being found guilty of rape, forced oral copulation and another sexual misconduct count

Daily Mirror · Feb 23, 2023

Head of troubled start-up Ozy Media arrested at New York hotel on fraud charges

Carlos Watson faces maximum prison sentence of 37 years if convicted

The Independent UK · Feb 23, 2023

R Kelly to serve just extra year in prison for convictions for child pornography and enticing minors for sex

Disgraced R&B star avoids lengthy add-on to 30-year prison sentence he is currently serving

Evening Standard · Feb 23, 2023

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R Kelly sentenced to just ONE extra year in jail for federal paedophilia charges

R Kelly has been sentenced to just one more year in prison for federal paedophilia charges, with the judge determining his actions didn't merit a sex trafficking enhancement

Daily Mirror · Feb 23, 2023

R. Kelly sentenced to one more year in prison for child pornography

The disgraced former R&B star is already serving 30 years for sex trafficking and racketeering. On Thursday, he was given one more year in prison for having made pornography with three children.

WEKU · Feb 23, 2023

How a former caterer created the mercenary army fighting Putin's war in Ukraine

Guardian journalist Shaun Walker talks about Yevgeny Prigozhin, the tough-talking convict-turned-businessman who recruits soldiers from Russian prisons to fight in Ukraine.

WEKU · Feb 23, 2023

Jan 6 rioter who posted ‘assassinate AOC’ after storming Capitol sentenced to three years in prison

Garret Miller wore a T-shirt with Trump’s image commemorating the Capitol attack when he was arrested

The Independent UK · Feb 23, 2023

Vietnamese trafficker gets sentence lowered over UK refugee deaths

Belgian court of appeal on Thursday lowered the prison sentence for Vietnamese trafficking gang leader Vo Van Hong over the manslaughter of 39 compatriots who suffocated in an airtight shipping container smuggled into Britain in 2019.

Reuters · Feb 23, 2023

Hapless burglar accepted brews from kindhearted victims then left his DNA on the cups

Christopher McKillop, fresh out of prison, targeted vulnerable OAPs in a cruel campaign of burglary and fraud, spinning elaborate lies to get access to their homes before stealing cash and bank cards

Daily Mirror · Feb 23, 2023

Gateshead man who murdered Northumbria cop almost 30 years ago bids for move to open prison in third parole hearing

Paul Weddle stabbed Sergeant Bill Forth in the heart, lung and kidney

Chronicle Live · Feb 23, 2023

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The Guardian - UK · Feb 23, 2023

Lady Martha Bruce obituary

Governor of Scotland’s only all-female prison whose military career shaped her pioneering approach to women in custody

The Independent UK · Feb 23, 2023

Harvey Weinstein pleads as he’s given 16 additional years in prison – live

Weinstein was convicted in December of one count of rape and two counts of sexual assault

Chicago Tribune · Feb 23, 2023

R. Kelly sentenced to an additional year in federal prison, and 19 concurrent years, for ‘horrific’ abuse of underage girls

CHICAGO — The video of R. Kelly sexually abusing his teenage goddaughter, “Jane,” has haunted her for more than two decades, robbing her of her childhood, of her dreams of being a musician, of any chance she ever had at normalcy.

Chicago Tribune · Feb 23, 2023

R. Kelly sentenced to an additional year in federal prison, and 19 concurrent years in his Chicago case

CHICAGO — A dramatic legal saga that began in a Cook County courtroom 20 years ago drew to a close in a Chicago federal courtroom Thursday as disgraced R&B superstar R. Kelly was sentenced to an additional year in prison on his conviction here.

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The National (Scotland) · Feb 23, 2023

Ex-SNP MP Natalie McGarry loses appeal over embezzlement conviction

A FORMER SNP MP who was jailed for embezzling almost £25,000 has lost an appeal over their conviction, but had their prison term cut to 20 months.

Wales Online · Feb 23, 2023

Prison officer who smuggled class A drugs into jail handed six-year stretch behind bars

Heather McKenzie, 31, ferried cocaine and mobile phones into the prison where she worked

The Independent UK · Feb 23, 2023

Prison officer who smuggled drugs into jail sentenced to six years behind bars

Heather McKenzie, 31, ferried cocaine and mobile phones into HMP Shotts in North Lanarkshire.

Evening Standard · Feb 23, 2023

The real case behind Boston Strangler, Hulu’s new Keira Knightly serial killer film

Here’s the true story behind Ridley Scott’s new thriller

Chicago Tribune · Feb 23, 2023

New Illinois law gives additional hope to youngest felons facing life in prison

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Nelson Morris was only 17 when he was arrested for a double murder that eventually doomed him to spend the rest of his life in prison, with no chance of parole.

Edinburgh Live · Feb 23, 2023

Edinburgh photos of forgotten shops show how different life was 50 years ago

From brush shops, prison cells, public toilets and laundrettes, photographs by a Scottish photographer shows how much times have changed over the last 50 years.

Wales Online · Feb 23, 2023

'Most people would run away from them - we try to run towards them': The probation officers working with Wales' offenders

They try to help people who break the law change their lives, while protecting the public from harm, and are always thinking about risk

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