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Steve Bannon speaks after leaving prison, mentions Puerto Ricans, minorities

Steve Bannon, a former strategist for Donald Trump's White House and right-wing podcaster, said he feels empowered after serving four months in prison for contempt of Congress. Bannon also made a ...

Key Trump ally Steve Bannon released from prison

Just a week before Election Day, Steve Bannon, former White House chief strategist in the Trump administration, was released from federal prison after serving four months for contempt of Congress ...

Ikea to pay €6mn to compensate for forced labour by ex-prisoners in East Germany

Political and other prisoners were made to work producing furniture for the retailer from 1960 until 1990

Business - Financial Times - October 30

17-year prison sentence sought for Pentagon secrets leaker

Prosecutors want Massachusetts Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira to serve nearly 17 years in prison for leaking highly classified military documents online about the war in Ukraine, according ...

Politics - The Hill - October 30

FTX’s engineering chief Nishad Singh spared prison time in fraud case

Coder was one of several members of Sam Bankman-Fried’s inner circle to testify against their former boss at trial

Business - Financial Times - October 30

Nishad Singh, a Top FTX Executive, Is Given No Prison Time After Cooperation

Mr. Singh, who was a top executive in Sam Bankman-Fried’s business empire, had pleaded guilty to fraud and campaign finance violations that contributed to the collapse of FTX.

Business - The New York Times - November 1

Ex-FTC Executive Singh Spared Prison for Role in Crypto Fraud

The former chief engineer at FTX cooperated extensively with prosecutors in their case against founder Sam Bankman-Fried.

Business - Inc. - October 30

Philip Zimbardo, 91, Whose Stanford Prison Experiment Studied Evil, Dies

His provocative research made him a popular figure on campus. But his exploration of how good people can turn evil raised ethical questions.

Science - The New York Times - October 31

Russia sentences former US consulate worker to nearly 5 years in prison

A court in Russia’s far-eastern city of Vladivostok has convicted a former U.S. Consulate worker charged with cooperating with a foreign state and sentenced him to four years and 10 months in prison

World - ABC News - November 1

Russia sentences former long-time U.S. Consulate worker to prison

A Russian court found long-time U.S. Consulate employee Robert Shonov guilty of "gathering information" on the Ukraine war and sharing it with a foreign nation.

World - CBS News - November 1

US woman in 1990 'killer clown' case released from prison

Sheila Keen-Warren pleaded guilty to murdering her husband's first wife while wearing a clown costume.

Woman convicted in Florida killer-clown cold case released from prison

A woman convicted of dressing up as a clown in 1990 and murdering the wife of a man she later married has been released from prison, putting to rest one of the more bizarre cold cases Florida has ...

Serco tracking devices on prison vans disabled after cyber attack

Crews transporting offenders left without security in subcontractor outage that also hit DHL

World - Financial Times - November 5

764 Terror Network Member Richard Densmore Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison

The 47-year-old Michigan man, who pleaded guilty to sexually exploiting a child, was highly active in the online criminal network called 764, which the FBI now considers a “tier one” terrorism threat.

Tech - Wired - November 7

Belarus' hardline president releases 31 political prisoners but crackdown persists

Belarus’s authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, who has led a harsh crackdown on opposition, has pardoned and released 31 political prisoners

World - ABC News - November 7

A 'jungle': Rome's teeming jail lays bare Italy's prison ills

World - Yahoo News - November 9

Early prison release: 'I'm lost and don't know what to do'

One man tells BBC London not enough is being done to keep prisoners released early off the streets.

Former Turkish soccer club president sentenced to prison for attacking referee

A Turkish court has sentenced a former top-flight soccer club executive to more than three and a half years in prison for attacking a referee on the field at the end of a league game match last season

Sports - ABC News - November 11

Former Turkish club president given prison term for attacking referee on field

Faruk Koca punched the referee Halil Umut Meler Court in Ankara sentences him to three-and-a-half years A Turkish court has sentenced a former top-flight football club executive to more than ...

World - The Guardian - November 11

Private prison stocks jump on Trump appointment of immigration hard-liner Tom Homan

Tom Homan served as the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement during Trump's first term.

Business - CNBC - November 11

California voters reject measure to ban forced prison labor

Prop 6, which would have banned involuntary servitude in prisons, fails in blow to criminal justice reform advocates. California voters have rejected a ballot measure to prohibit forced prison ...

World - The Guardian - November 11

First sighting of Belarusian political prisoner in more than 600 days

Maria Kolesnikova, jailed for her part in mass political protests in 2020, was allowed to see her father.

Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira sentenced to 15 years in prison

A judge on Tuesday sentenced former Massachusetts Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira to 15 years in prison for leaking classified Pentagon documents on social media. The 22-year-old pleaded ...

At least 15 inmates killed in a fight in Ecuador's largest prison

A fight among inmates has left 15 dead and 14 injured at Ecuador’s largest prison

World - ABC News - November 12

In Trump's deportation plan, the private prison industry sees a lucrative opportunity

As Donald Trump prepares to make good on his promise to deport possibly millions of undocumented immigrants, the private prison industry appears poised to cash in.

Prison officer to The Voice star: 'I felt like Hannah Montana'

Hollie Peabody returns to work in the prisons service after getting to the semi-finals of The Voice.

Daniel Khalife denies asking Iran for help after prison escape

The former soldier has pleaded guilty to escaping from prison but still faces other charges.

Ecuador's largest and most dangerous prison riot leaves at least 17 dead

Authorities say the number of inmates killed in a riot in Ecuador’s largest and most dangerous prison has risen to 17, a day after the goriest prison episode under the watch of President Daniel ...

World - ABC News - November 13

Remains of U.S. WWII airman identified after dying as prisoner of war

U.S. Army Air Forces Pvt. 1st Class Bernard J. Calvi, 23, died in a prisoner of war camp in the Philippines during World War II.

Charles Manson admits to additional murders in unearthed prison phone call

In docuseries preview, audio shows cult leader, behind 1960s killings, saying he ‘left some dead people’ in Mexico. In newly released audio, Charles Manson , the cult leader behind a string of ...

World - The Guardian - November 13

Prison officers deal drugs and ask inmates for sex, BBC told

Staff and former inmates say corruption is rife because guards know "how to fiddle the system".

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