The Latest Breaking News from Prison

Gaetz associate Joel Greenberg sentenced to 11 years in prison for charges including sex trafficking a minor

Mr Gaetz said he ‘deeply regretted’ his friendship with Greenberg

The Independent UK · Dec 1, 2022

Joel Greenberg sentenced to 11 years in prison for sex trafficking, other crimes

ORLANDO, Fla. — Joel Greenberg — who as Seminole County’s tax collector trafficked a teenager, stalked a political rival, stole identities and spent taxpayer funds on paid sex and cryptocurrency, among other misdeeds — was sentenced to 11 years in prison Thursday morning, bringing to a close one of the…

Orlando Sentinel · Dec 1, 2022

Yoga teacher guilty of murdering her lodger after claiming it was self-defence

Dawn Lewis appeared to have stabbed herself in bid to avoid justice, Bristol Crown Court told

The Independent UK · Dec 1, 2022

Australian jailed in Myanmar applauded in Parliament

An Australian economist who spent almost two years imprisoned in Myanmar has received a hero’s welcome at Australia’s Parliament House

The Independent UK · Dec 1, 2022

Cessnock prison guard sacked for assault after 'sex pest' claim

Assault followed allegation colleague called guard's relative a 'sex pest'.

Newcastle Herald · Dec 1, 2022

'Get out of the f****** car': scalpel-wielding carjacker sentenced to six years

A man who carjacked a mother with her children in the backseat, stabbed a man with a scalpel and threatened a chemist staffer before fleeing the scene with two energy drinks on a vicious crime spree across Newcastle has been sentenced to six years and six months in prison.

Newcastle Herald · Dec 1, 2022

California warden who feds say regularly sexually assaulted inmates heads to court

Hollywood stars Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman, convicted in the Varsity Blues college admission fraud case, were hardly the biggest offenders at the federal prison in Dublin, Calif.

Boston Herald · Dec 1, 2022

‘I lost my retirement, my career, my home’: the Americans imprisoned for being HIV-positive

Thirty-three states maintain laws tied to exposure or transmission, many developed long before the illness was understood

The Guardian - US · Dec 1, 2022

Sam Bankman-Fried on prospect of prison: This isn’t the time and place to think about that

Sam Bankman-Fried said he had a "bad month" while claiming he didn't try to commingle funds.

Fortune · Dec 1, 2022

Execution of Idaho death row inmate delayed after state unable to obtain lethal injection drugs

BOISE, Idaho — Idaho’s first execution in more than a decade, scheduled next month for death row inmate Gerald Pizzuto, was postponed Wednesday after the state prison system acknowledged that it has been unable to obtain the necessary lethal injection drugs.

Tribune News Service · Dec 1, 2022