Tag: jail
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Wisconsin landlord sisters admit to stealing tenants dog, facing no jail time
[ad_1] Two Wisconsin landlords who admitted to stealing one of their tenant’s dogs following a lease dispute will not face any jail time even as the dog remains missing a year after court proceedings began. On Halloween 2022, Susan Haas, 64, and her sister Sarah Engeseth, 62, took Linnea Sandlin’s rat terrier named Simon, after…
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West Virginia jail officers plead guilty to conspiracy charge in fatal assault on inmate
[ad_1] CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Two West Virginia corrections officers pleaded guilty Thursday to a felony conspiracy charge stemming from the fatal beating of an inmate in a case that has brought scrutiny to conditions and deaths at the jail. Southern Regional Jail officers Andrew Fleshman and Steven Wimmer entered the pleas during separate hearings…
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Tax Evasion Puts Oyster Protocol’s Founder In Jail For 4 Years
[ad_1] The court has sentenced Amir Bruno Elmaani, the founder of the defunct crypto firm Oyster Protocol, to four years in prison for evading taxes. According to the US Attorney’s Office’s October 31 statement, 31-year-old Elmaani, alias Bruno Block, received the sentence after pleading guilty on April 6. Federal prosecutors sued Block for offering unregistered…
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Drones used to give drugs to inmates after they develop habit in jail
[ad_1] Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Prisoners are developing drug problems in jail, leaving the public at greater risk when they are released, an inspection report has found. Inspectors visiting HMP Lindholme found 21 per cent of the…
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Low-level offenders to be spared jail in bid to free up space in overcrowded prisons
[ad_1] Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Low-level offenders are to be spared jail and made to do community service in a bid to free up space in prisons, the government has announced. Amid warnings that there is simply…
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Judges in England and Wales told not to jail criminals as prisons are full – Channel 4 News
[ad_1] Judges have been told to delay the sentencing of criminals currently on bail because prisons are full, according to a report in today’s Times newspaper. This morning the Health Secretary Steve Barclay acknowledged that prisons “are under huge pressure”, adding that the Justice Secretary will make a statement to the commons on Monday. But…
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10 Years Taken: Bitcoin Icon Ross Ulbricht Is Still In Jail, Still Seeking Justice
[ad_1] It has officially been a decade since Ross Ulbricht, the man behind the popular online marketplace Silk Road, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. His crime: enabling free people to freely trade. In the years since, his case has been a lightning rod for debates about internet freedom, drug…
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Warped Lucy Letby ‘fans’ write to killer nurse as she rots in jail: Supporters on twisted Facebook group dedicated to baby murderer boast of sending her letters and ‘waiting for her to reply’
[ad_1] Warped Lucy Letby ‘fans’ are boasting about sending letters to the killer nurse as she rots in jail. Letby was handed a whole-life order after being found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six more at the Countess of Chester Hospital, in Cheshire, between June 2015 and June 2016. She injected them…
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Vancouver man gets 27-months in jail for killing another man in park
[ad_1] Article content A Vancouver man who hit another man in the head causing him to fall and later die has been given a 27-month jail sentence. According to Vancouver Police Department spokesperson Sgt. Steve Addison, on Aug. 6, 2021 Jeff Arnie Lincoln struck 60-year-old Gilles Herbert in Grandview Park near Commercial Drive and Charles…
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‘Hurting the feelings of the Chinese people’ could be punished by jail time — Radio Free Asia
[ad_1] “Hurting the feelings of the Chinese people.” It’s a stock phrase frequently used by Chinese officials and state media to criticize speech or actions by outsiders that Beijing disapproves of. But now it could be turned against the Chinese people themselves. Under a proposed amendment to the Public Security Administration Law, wearing the wrong…
