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Former Icelandic bank bosses jailed
Four former bosses from the Icelandic bank Kaupthing have been sentenced to between three and five years in prison. They are the former chief executive, the chairman of the board, one of the majority owners and the chief executive of the Luxembourg branch.
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Woman who miscarried in private prison 'made to clean up after herself,' court told
A woman who had a miscarriage at a private prison was left to clean up after herself while the foetus remained in her cell, it has been alleged. Although a nurse was present when remand prisoner Nadine Wright, 37, lost her baby, she says the foetus was left with her afterwards and that she had to clean up the blood.
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'One-man prison' cost €4.3 million
A German state spent €4.3 million on a prison which only had one inmate and then closed, according to a report on Thursday. The single inmate was accompanied by 26 members of staff for a year.
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Land of the Free? America Has 25 Percent of the World’s Prisoners
America criminalizes acts that other countries view as civil violations.
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Pussy Riot members freed from prison
Pussy Riot members Nadya Tolokonnikova, 24, and Maria Alekhina, 25, were released from prison, three months before their scheduled release.
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This Is What It's Like To Be A Tech Geek ... In Prison
It's probably not a question that gets asked around your office every day. But it can happen. A Microsoft executive was charged with insider trading last week, for instance (although he does not face prison time). Shawn Hogan and Brian Dunning, former eBay affiliate marketers accused of defrauding the auction site of $35 million, face up to 20 years in prison (they have yet to be sentenced).
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This Is What It's Like To Be A Tech Geek ... In Prison
It's probably not a question that gets asked around your office every day. But it can happen. A Microsoft executive was charged with insider trading last week, for instance (although he does not face prison time). Shawn Hogan and Brian Dunning, former eBay affiliate marketers accused of defrauding the auction site of $35 million, face up to 20 years in prison (they have yet to be sentenced).
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How Debtors' Prisons are Making a Comeback in America
Apparently having 5% of the world’s population, but 25% of its prisoners simply isn’t good enough for neo-feudal America. No, we need to find more creative and archaic ways to wastefully, immorally and seemingly unconstitutionally incarcerate poor people. Welcome to the latest trend in the penal colony formerly known as America. Debtors’ prisons.
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Mass murderer Breivik treated better than hacker, campaign says
An international media campaign is targeting the Danish legal system’s treatment of Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svarholm Warg by arguing that convicted Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik receives more humane conviction than the Swedish hacker.
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Food As Punishment: Giving U.S. Inmates 'The Loaf' Persists
The practice is starting to fade as more prisoners argue the loaf is cruel and unusual punishment.
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Meet The Murderers Jailed In Venezuela's Luxury Prison
Party Prison: The villains and murderers banged up in a South American Benidorm Latin American jails are usually dark places. But San Antonio Prison in Venezuela could be mistaken for a holiday resort, with its swimming pool, food stalls and overnight accommodation for guests.
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Pay for jail? Dutch govt wants to charge prisoners €16 a day
Convicted criminals in Netherlands might start paying 16 euro ($22) per day for accommodation as the Dutch Ministry of Security and Justice wants to introduce a bill aimed at reducing state jail costs. “Convicted criminals have broken the law and received a penalty. Offenders are being asked to make a contribution… because of high costs,” the ministry said in a statement Monday.
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The iPod of Prison
Why a cheap, decade-and-a-half-old model of AM/FM radio remains ubiquitous in correctional facilities and coveted outside them.
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In Rural Jails, E-Cigarettes Are a Calming Vapor
As city governments and schools move to ban or restrict the use of e-cigarettes, one place increasingly welcomes the devices: the rural county jail. Though traditional cigarettes are prohibited from most prisons and jails because of fire hazards and secondhand smoke, a growing number of sheriffs say they are selling e-cigarettes to inmates to help control the mood swings of those in need of a smoke, as well as address budget shortfalls
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Government: Guards may be responsible for half of prison sex assaults
Allegations of rape and sexual assault involving prison inmates are increasing, and nearly half of those assaults are committed against prisoners by correctional officers, according to a new report issued by the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics.
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Meet the firms cashing in on imprisoning foreigners
Imprisoning immigrants is good for business. In the US it’s common for lobbyists hired by leading prison companies to magically convince officials to write legislation that benefits their bottom line. US magazine The Nation revealed in June 2013 that the massive corporation Geo Group had used the firm Navigators Global to lobby both houses of Congress on ‘issues related to comprehensive immigration reform’.
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French inmate freed after fax runs out of ink
A suspect in the 2011 lynching of a young DJ in a Paris suburb has been released because a fax machine ran out of ink, prosecutors confirmed on Thursday. The man was reportedly freed because staff at a Paris court of appeal were unable to read a fax containing his appeal before the legal deadline expired.
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American Kenneth Bae now in North Korea labor camp
American Kenneth Bae, who is being held in North Korea, has been moved from a hospital to a labor camp, the State Department said on Friday. Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a statement that the United States was "deeply concerned" by the development. "We also remain gravely concerned about Mr. Bae's health" and again urge Pyongyang to grant him "special amnesty and immediate release on humanitarian grounds," she said.
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After decades in prison over murders, DNA evidence frees 2 New York men
Two men behind bars for more than half their lives over a triple murder walked free this week after DNA evidence tore holes in their convictions. Antonio Yarbough and Sharrif Wilson were teenagers when prison doors clanked shut behind them. Now, in their late 30s, they can hardly believe they're out.
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I Spent the Past Ten Years Going in and out of Prison and It's Ruined My Life
When I went to jail ten years ago I knew it’d be tough. Many people told me that I’d ruined my life, but how could I accept that when I was only 23? Today it’s become much more of a reality, but I ref…
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