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NEWS ABOUT: imprisonment

imprisonment stories: 16 news summaries

 Cops Find More Bones 
 at Garrido Home 

Authorities not yet certain if remains are human or animal

Sep 16, 09 9:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - More bones have been found on the property belonging to Phillip Garrido—the man charged with abducting and imprisoning Jaycee Dugard—and on the property next door, California authorities tell KCBS-AM. “We have located what appears to be bones on both properties. We can’t tell at this point... More »

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crime • abduction • imprisonment • Jaycee Lee Dugard • Phillip Garrido • Antioch, Calif. • Michaela Garecht • Ilene Misheloff

book review

 This Bitch of a Life 
 Offers Frank View of Fela Kuti 

Biography pulls no punches in describing this powerful musician

Aug 24, 09 7:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - Carlos Moore’s Fela: This Bitch of a Life, a newly re-released 1982 authorized biography, contains the usual makings of sociomusical hagiography: Fela’s stunning music, his uncompromising anticolonial message, and the many beatings and imprisonments he suffered as a result. But most readers likely already know the legend—what... More »

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music • Africa • Nigeria • revolution • musician • activist • Bob Marley • imprisonment • Fela Kuti

(Newser) - A former commander in Adolf  Hitler's army has been sentenced to life imprisonment for a massacre in Italy he ordered 65 years ago, the BBC reports. In what is expected to be one of the very last Nazi trials, a Munich court found Joseph Scheungraber guilty of murder in the... More »

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Germany • war crimes • massacre • Nazi • World War II • murder trial • imprisonment

interview

Women Charged With Gluing Man's Penis: 'We're Victims'

'I thought he loved me,' says one

Aug 6, 09 11:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Wisconsin women charged with false imprisonment after tying a man up and super-gluing his penis to his stomach aren’t especially repentant. “If anybody is a victim in this it’s all the women that he’s dated,” Michelle Belliveau told the Today show. “They gave... More »

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Wisconsin • affair • glue • assault • penis • imprisonment

Women Super-Glue Privates of Cheating Hubby

Wife exacts revenge, with his girlfriends

Aug 4, 09 3:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - Four women face felony charges after a bizarre act of revenge against a womanizing husband, the AP reports. Wendy Sewell, 43, Therese Ziemann, 48, and Michelle Belliveau, 43, all of Wisconsin, teamed up with the man’s wife to trap him at a motel, tie him up, and super-glue his... More »

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Wisconsin • Craigslist • affair • sexual assault • imprisonment • criminal charges • lover

 Recession Cuts Into 
 Prison Sentences 

States opt for cheaper routes to justice

Jul 13, 09 10:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - With the recession squeezing their finances, many states are opting to cut the high costs surrounding incarceration—meaning fewer criminals are heading to jail and prison, and more are getting out earlier, the Washington Post reports. Some states are sending drug offenders and drunk drivers to special courts that allow... More »

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drugs • prison • recession • prison system • jail • criminal justice system • imprisonment • DWI • prison sentence

4 Indicted in
Year-Long
Teen Torture

Shackled teen
attacked with knife,
bat, belt and acid

Apr 2, 09 3:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - Three adults pleaded not guilty yesterday to charges they tortured a captive teen for a year with belts, a baseball bat, knife and acid, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. A neighbor has yet to enter a plea. The 16-year-old boy was shackled to a fireplace in the California home of... More »

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torture • kidnapping • abduction • teenager • imprisonment

'Colombia Fritzl' Fathered 11 Kids With  Daughter

Man accused of imprisoning girl, raping her from age 9

Mar 29, 09 8:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Colombian man has been accused of imprisoning his daughter and raping her from the age of 9 and fathering 11 children with her, the BBC reports. He denies incest and rape charges, insisting his daughter was adopted and that the two “agreed to have a romantic relationship because... More »

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crime • Colombia • rape • incest • child rape • Josef Fritzl • imprisonment • Howard Stern Grid

 Remorseful Fritzl: I Want 
 Only the Hardest Punishment 

Daughter's testimony convinced him to confess, incest dad says

Mar 27, 09 1:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Josef Fritzl describes intense feelings of remorse in the first interview since his trial, the Telegraph reports. Fritzl, who abruptly switched his plea to guilty in the middle of the proceedings, said his decision was prompted by hearing his daughter describe in court how he imprisoned and habitually raped her:... More »

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psychiatry • abuse • incest • Josef Fritzl • Elisabeth Fritzl • imprisonment • life sentence • Howard Stern Grid

Fritzl's Daughter Will Get Profits From TV Tell-All

Creditors agree to unusual deal for Elisabeth, 6 children

Mar 6, 09 1:45 PM CST
(Newser) - Creditors in Austria will donate the proceeds from an interview with Josef Fritzl to the daughter he raped and imprisoned for 24 years, the Austrian Times reports. Elisabeth Fritzl and her six children were about to be left with nothing after creditors divvied up her father’s bankrupt estate, which... More »

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rape • Austria • incest • Josef Fritzl • Elisabeth Fritzl • imprisonment

 Biker Takes Son on 
 122mph Joyride, 
 Lands in Jail 

Brit was riding with unprotected 14-year-old son

Mar 2, 09 12:33 PM CST
(Newser) - A British biker has been sentenced to 6 months in jail after police caught him screaming by at 122mph with his 14-year-old son, who wasn’t wearing any safety gear, holding onto the seat with his bare hands, the BBC reports. The man, Robert Bennett, 47, had earlier pleaded guilty... More »

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speeding • motorcycle • jail • Britain • imprisonment

(Newser) - Austrian incest dad Josef Fritzl defended his imprisonment of daughter Elisabeth as necessary to stop her abuse of household chemicals, the Daily Mail reports. “She had been sniffing cleaning fluids and I decided I should talk with her in my cellar,” Fritzl said of the day in 1984... More »

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rape • drug abuse • murder trial • incest • Josef Fritzl • Elisabeth Fritzl • Amstetten, Austria • imprisonment

Aussie Writer Gets 3 Years
for Thai Insult

Self-published book that sold 7 copies dissed the monarchy

Jan 19, 09 9:01 AM CST
(Newser) - An Australian writer has been sentenced to 3 years in prison for insulting Thailand’s monarchy in one passage of a self-published book, the BBC reports. Tough “lese-majeste” laws shield Thailand’s monarchy from criticism and led to Harry Nicolaides’ arrest as he was leaving the country. He pleaded... More »

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Thailand • monarchy • jail • writer • book • insult • imprisonment

(Newser) - Josef Fritzl has been charged with murder in the death of one of the seven children he had with his daughter Elisabeth, the Telegraph reports. Austrian prosecutors say he failed to provide medical care to the child, who fell ill shortly after birth. He later burned the child's body in... More »

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rape • Austria • murder trial • incest • Josef Fritzl • Elisabeth Fritzl • criminal trial • imprisonment

Navy Accuses Sailors
of Abusing Detainees

Six guards in Iraq face charges

Aug 14, 08 5:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - The US Navy will court-martial six sailors who are charged with abusing detainees at a US prison camp in Iraq, Reuters reports. The sailors are accused of beating prisoners and confining them in an unventilated room with pepper spray, a Navy statement says. More »

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Iraq • Abu Ghraib • prison • Navy • US military • physical abuse • imprisonment • Camp Bucca

 Tsvangirai: Save
 Yourselves,
 Vote Mugabe 

Sham election gets underway today

Jun 27, 08 3:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - As Zimbabwe's sham run-off election for president began to get underway, even opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai urged supporters to vote for Robert Mugabe to save themselves from the violent intimidation orchestrated by the government, the Guardian reports. Mugabe's militia has conducted a terror campaign of murder, abduction, imprisonment and rape... More »

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Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • Morgan Tsvangirai • murder • abduction • election fraud • Zanu-PF • Zimbabwe Election Support Network • Operation Elimination • imprisonment • intimidation

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