Criminals to heroes: California penal system trains inmates to be firefighters

Jan. 4   2 Comments  

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Fire camps teach the incarcerated real life skills and gives them a new lease on life.

Former corrections officer sentenced on federal drug charges

Sept. 28, 2011   Leave a Comment  

A former corrections officer working in MCI-Norfolk was sentenced yesterday to 30 months in federal prison for trying to smuggle heroin into the prison for inmates. Ronald P. McGinn, 40, of Bridgewater, also faces two years of supervised release. He was arrested in April for possession of 29 grams of heroin, which he was bringing [...]

Wesley Snipes tells Larry King that he is nervous

Dec. 9, 2010   Leave a Comment  

Actor Wesley Snipes, 48, has reported to a federal prison in Pennsylvania to begin serving a three-year sentence for failing to file his taxes. Snipes was convicted in April 2008 of three misdemeanor counts of willful failure to file income taxes, and he spent two years unsuccessfully trying to appeal. During a CNN interview with [...]

Police capture escaped prisoner in Salem

Dec. 6, 2010   12 Comments  

Several law enforcement agencies, including Massachusetts State Police units searched for and captured a prisoner who briefly escaped from Salem District Court Monday. Karl Hackney is awaiting trial on gun and drug charges and slipped away sometime around noon. He was captured an hour later on Hawthorne Boulevard. According to the State Police, troopers from [...]

Lil Wayne joins Twitter

Feb. 24, 2010   1 Comment  

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Will they let him tweet from prison?

Lil Wayne goes to prison

Feb. 8, 2010   21 Comments  

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Lil Wayne is “looking forward” to a year in prison.

EarthTalk: Haitian earthquake? Prison food?

Jan. 25, 2010   Leave a Comment  

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Looking at the environmental impact of Haiti’s earthquake

Life sentence given in Austrian incest case

March 19, 2009   Leave a Comment  

An Austrian court judge sentenced Josef Fritzl to life in prison Thursday, for allowing the child he fathered with his enslaved daughter to die without receiving any medical attention or aid, the New York Times reports.

Murder suspects escape from Saskatchewan prison

March 15, 2009   1 Comment  

Six high-risk Canadian prisoners, four of whom were facing murder charges, escaped from a maximum security prison in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan last month. How?

Iraq shoe thrower sentenced

March 12, 2009   Leave a Comment  

Do you remember that Iraqi guy who threw his shoes at President Bush? Remember how he was lauded as a national hero? Well, now he’s going to prison.

Obama to close Gitmo as soon as possible

Jan. 12, 2009   Leave a Comment  

President-elect O bama plans to close the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay as early as his first week in office, to show his disapproval of Bush’s approach to the war on terror and effectively “change” American politics, say two officials close to the transition, according to CNN.