US man found near Damascus after months in Syrian prison
Getty ImagesTravis Timmerman said he was arrested after entering the country on footA US man, detained for months in a Syrian prison after entering the…
Biden commutes roughly 1,500 sentences and pardons 39 people in biggest single-day act of clemency
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of roughly 1,500 people who were released from prison and placed on home confinement during the coronavirus…
Russia tells citizens not to travel to United States | Russia-Ukraine war News
Russians should also avoid heading to Canada and most EU states, warns Moscow’s Foreign Ministry.Russia has warned its citizens not to travel to the United…
Gypsy-Rose Blanchard insists she will be a good mom despite her past
Parenthood is very much on Gypsy-Rose Blanchard’s mind during a recent Zoom interview about her upcoming memoir. It’s been almost a year since she was…
Families search Syria’s Sednaya Prison for loved ones after al-Assad’s fall | Syria’s War News
Rescue teams and relatives of disappeared people in Syria are searching for their loved ones at the notorious Sednaya Prison in Damascus after the fall of President Bashar…
‘A number not a name’: In Syria, freed prisoners recall horrors of the past | Syria’s War News
Idlib, Syria – “My name was number 1100,” Hala said, still fearful of being identified by her real name. Hala is one of the thousands…
Mohammad Rasoulof escaped Iran to debut ‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig’
Mohammad Rasoulof made it to the Cannes premiere of his film “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” but only after a perilous escape from Iran…
Judge holds NYC in contempt over ‘grave’ prison conditions on Rikers Island, is ‘inclined’ to a federal takeover
"For those reasons, the court is inclined to impose a receivership: namely, a remedy that will make the management of the use of force and…
Archegos’s Bill Hwang sentenced to 18 years in prison for massive US fraud | Crime News
Hwang had been convicted in July on 10 criminal charges including wire and securities fraud, market manipulation.Former billionaire investor Sung Kook “Bill” Hwang has been…
How California can still put an end to forced prison labor
Proposition 6, the ballot measure that would have amended the California Constitution to prohibit involuntary servitude in prison, failed. That’s troubling. Do voters really believe…
Military veteran sentenced to prison for Capitol riot attack
WASHINGTON — A former U.S. Army soldier who was court-martialed for fatally shooting a handcuffed civilian in Iraq two decades ago was sentenced Monday to more…
Why a liberal prison reform passed in Nevada and failed in California
A progressive prison reform that was on the ballot in California and Nevada this month met drastically different outcomes after the votes were counted: In…
What happened in Abu Ghraib and why did a US court award damages? | Civil Rights News
A United States jury has ruled that Virginia-based defence contractor CACI must pay $42m to three Iraqi men who were tortured at the Abu Ghraib…
Prison sex sessions, fake holidays and Spice busts… how love-bombing gangsters turn ordinary women into drug mules
WHEN Amy Hatfield started working as a prison nurse, she would never have thought she'd end up behind bars herself.The 39-year-old had become a mental…
Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira sentenced to 15 years in prison | Al Jazeera News
Prosecutors sought 17 years imprisonment for ‘significant’ violations of the Espionage Act.Jack Teixeira, a member of the Massachusetts National Guard, has been jailed for 15…
Newsom pardons five California veterans on Veterans Day
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom on Veterans Day pardoned five former members of the military and is seeking one posthumous clemency grant for another for convictions…
12 years in prison for man who operated bitcoin money laundering wallet
1 of 3 | The man responsible for operating the longest-running bitcoin money laundering service on the darknet was handed a 150-month prison sentence this…
Australian White supremacist sentenced to a month in prison for making Nazi salute
Jacob Hersant (R) arriving at Melbourne Magistrates' Court in Melbourne, Australia, on Friday where he was sentenced to a month in prison for performing an…
Putin’s notorious ‘Torture General’ killed by Ukraine after running hellhole prison camp & leading ‘meat assaults’
VLADIMIR Putin's infamous "Torture General" has been killed by Ukrainian forces after heading up a grim prison camp.Major-General Pavel Klimenko, 47, was riding a motorbike…
Man who smashed door before officer killed Capitol rioter is sentenced
WASHINGTON — A man who stormed the U.S. Capitol and smashed glass panels on a door — moments before a police officer fatally shot another rioter…