The Latest Breaking News from Prison

Bid to seize fugitive cage fighter's ill-gotten gains from drug ring while he's on the run

Darren Towler was sentenced to 24 years in prison for running a cocaine operation in his absence

Chronicle Live · Feb 23, 2023

Scots prison officer who befriended knife killer jailed for smuggling drugs behind bars

Heather McKenzie secretly ferried cocaine and mobile phones into Shotts Prison, in Lanarkshire, but was rumbled after jail chiefs became suspicious about the level of drugs found in cells.

Daily Record · Feb 23, 2023

Harvey Weinstein facing extra 24 years in jail as he's sentenced for rape and sex assault

Harvey Weinstein is being sentenced today in Los Angeles, and could face up to 24 years in prison for his crimes against women.

Daily Mirror · Feb 23, 2023

Thug threatened to kill innocent man's dog and attacked him with a glass bottle

Bradley Wood had only been out of prison for a matter of weeks before he knocked the victim's tooth out and bit him

Liverpool Echo · Feb 23, 2023

Jan. 6 rioter who assaulted officer and threatened AOC sentenced to over 3 years in prison

Prosecutors said Texan Garret Miller posted in reply to a tweet by Ocasio-Cortez: "Assassinate AOC."

Axios · Feb 23, 2023

Could R. Kelly spend the rest of his life in prison?

R. Kelly wouldn’t be eligible for release until 2066, a year shy of his 100th birthday, if a federal judge accepts prosecutors’ recommendations at his upcoming sentencing hearing

The Independent UK · Feb 22, 2023

R. Kelly sentencing: Federal judge could add to singer’s prison time Thursday

Kelly is already serving a 30-year sentence for a federal racketeering conviction in New York. So the crucial question Thursday will be whether U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber feels the need to punish Kelly further.

Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 22, 2023

Rapper Nipsey Hussle's killer is sentenced to 60 years to life in prison

Eric R. Holder Jr. will likely remain in jail for the rest of his life for the murder of Nipsey Hussle, a beloved figure in south LA who was killed in 2019 outside his clothing store.

WEKU · Feb 22, 2023

Court: News outlets didn't defame ex-coal CEO Blankenship

An appeals court has ruled that Fox News, CNN and other news outlets didn’t defame former coal executive Don Blankenship when they referred to him as a “felon."

The Independent UK · Feb 22, 2023

Woman gets 4+ years in jail for harming college schoolmates

A New York woman who admitted her role in an ex-convict’s decade-long plot to extort and sexually manipulate schoolmates of his daughter at Sarah Lawrence College has been sentenced to over four years in prison

The Independent UK · Feb 22, 2023