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An 'admitted leader of the KKK' is sentenced to 6 years in prison for driving his truck through Black Lives Matter protesters
A Glen Allen, Virginia, man has been convicted of six misdemeanor charges and sentenced to six years in prison for driving his car through a group of Black Lives Matter protesters in June, online court filings state.
[ cnn.com ]Ghislaine Maxwell petitions judge over jail restrictions, citing 'onerous conditions' tied to Epstein's suicide
Attorneys for Ghislaine Maxwell asked a federal judge on Monday to direct the Bureau of Prisons to release her into the general population of the federal facility where she's incarcerated, saying she has been "held under uniquely onerous conditions" in the wake of last year's jailhouse death of her former boyfriend and alleged accomplice, Jeffrey Epstein.
[ cnn.com ]In a Texas town, there's a place where 75% of the population has gotten Covid-19. Here's what it's like inside the hardest-hit federal prison in the US.
When James Giannetta first called his brother Russ in late June to tell him that the coronavirus was beginning to spread in his Texas federal prison, Russ could hear the fear in his voice. "This place is exploding," James warned.
[ cnn.com ]Inside the US federal prison hit hardest by Covid-19
In a Texas town, 75% of a prison's population tested positive for Covid-19. Hear what it's like inside the hardest-hit federal prison in the US. CNN's Drew Griffin reports.
[ cnn.com ]A man who was sentenced to life in prison for selling $30 of marijuana will be freed
A military veteran serving a life sentence for selling less than $30 worth of marijuana will soon be released from prison, his attorney said.
[ cnn.com ]Louisiana Supreme Court upholds Black man's life sentence for stealing 20 years ago
A Black Louisiana man will spend the rest of his life in prison for stealing hedge clippers, after the Louisiana Supreme Court denied his request to have his sentence overturned last week.
[ cnn.com ]Popular YouTubers have been charged for bank robbery pranks
YouTube celebrities the Stokes Twins could face up to four years in state prison for their role in two fake bank robberies.
[ cnn.com ]He spent 27 years in prison for murdering two children. Now a Chinese court has found him not guilty
A Chinese man convicted of murdering two children has had his conviction overturned after serving 27 years in prison, in what has been described as one of the longest-serving miscarriages of justice in recent Chinese history.
[ cnn.com ]Man sentenced in hate crime for stabbing a Black woman
A Brooklyn man was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison for a hate crime involving the stabbing of a 57-year-old Black woman, according to prosecutors.
[ cnn.com ]Indian serial killer confesses involvement in more than 50 murders
An Indian serial killer who admitted his involvement in the murder of more than 50 taxi drivers whose bodies were dumped in a crocodile-infested canal has been caught by police after he fled to another state while out of prison on parole.
[ cnn.com ]2 US oil executives released from Venezuela prison to house arrest
Two American oil executives held in an overcrowded Venezuelan prison for almost three years have been placed in house arrest, a sign that the embattled government of Nicolas Maduro may be easing its stance toward the detainees.
[ cnn.com ]Russia jails ex-US Marine for 9 years
A Moscow court sentenced former U.S. Marine Trevor Reed to nine years in prison Thursday for endangering "life and health" of Russian police officers in an altercation, state-run news agency TASS reported -- a sentence that drew swift condemnation from the top US diplomat in Russia.
[ cnn.com ]A transgender female inmate received her gender confirmation surgery after a three-year court battle
A transgender female prisoner received her gender confirmation surgery after three years of legal battles, her attorney Lori Rifkin confirmed to CNN Tuesday.
[ cnn.com ]Opinion: William Barr has a lot to explain about actions on Michael Cohen
Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal attorney, sued the Department of Justice on Monday, alleging that his return to prison on July 9 after being released due to the Covid-19 pandemic constituted unlawful retaliation for his plan to publish a book about Trump.
[ cnn.com ]DOJ watchdog report finds lack of staffing contributed to Covid outbreak in California prison
The Justice Department's internal watchdog found that a federal prison in California where nearly 1,000 inmates have tested positive for the coronavirus was slow to implement safety measures and lacked adequate staffing to confront the growing pandemic.
[ cnn.com ]Cohen gets home confinement after judge rules his return to prison was retaliatory
Michael Cohen will be released to home confinement, a judge ruled on Thursday, finding that the government acted in a retaliatory manner when it took President Donald Trump's former personal attorney and fixer into custody earlier this month.
[ cnn.com ]Former Nazi camp guard convicted
A former Nazi concentration camp guard was convicted of thousands of counts of being an accessory to murder and given a two-year suspended prison sentence Thursday, a court announced.
[ cnn.com ]A typo on a death certificate exposes a man allegedly trying to avoid prison
A Long Island man allegedly created a fake death certificate to avoid being sentenced for unrelated charges but a typo on the certificate gave him away, prosecutors said.
[ cnn.com ]'El Chapo' is hoping an appeal can get him out of Supermax, his lawyer says
Just one year ago, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the former most powerful and dangerous kingpin in the world, was sentenced to life in prison, plus 30 years.
[ cnn.com ]NSA leaker Reality Winner among 500 women with virus at Texas federal prison
Hundreds of incarcerated women in Texas, including NSA leaker Reality Winner, are at the center of one of the largest coronavirus outbreaks at a federal correctional facility in the country.
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