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  • June 2007

    • Judge Orders Libby to Prison

      Washington Post  |  Jun 14, 07 3:42 PM CDT

      Judge Orders Libby to Prison

      (Newser) - Scooter Libby may not remain free pending appeal, the judge in his perjury trial ruled today, and must begin serving his 30-month sentence this summer. His defense team will turn next to a federal appeals court, the Washington Post reports, but the most pressing legal question now is whether President Bush will pardon the VP's onetime right-hand man. More »

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      George W. Bush  • prison  • Lewis Scooter Libby  • perjury  • sentencing  • conviction  • CIA leak investigation  • appeal  • pardon  • Reggie Walton

    • Paris Was Right: It's Not Fair!

      Los Angeles Times  |  Jun 14, 07 12:53 PM CDT

      Paris Was Right: It's Not Fair!

      (Newser) - Paris Hilton wasn't just  being a spoiled brat when she cried injustice on being hauled back to jail earlier this week. The weepy celebutante is in fact doing more hard time than most people guilty of crimes like hers, the LA Times reports after  analyzing 1,500 similar cases in the last five years. More »

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      celebrity  • prison  • trial  • Paris Hilton  • drunk driving  • sentencing

    • Paris' Slammer Grub Beats Its Bum Rap

      San Francisco Chronicle  |  Jun 14, 07 8:15 AM CDT

      Paris' Slammer Grub Beats Its Bum Rap

      (Newser) - Cuisine at the LA County Jail may not be fit for an heiress, but meals in the California's penitentiary system are surprisingly appetizing, the Chronicle reports. Paris Hilton has reportedly been turning up her nose at provisions in the poke, although state regulations require chow to be tasty, varied and nourishing. More »

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      celebrity  • California  • Los Angeles  • food  • prison  • Paris Hilton  • jail  • cuisine  • LA County Jail

    • Teen Sex Case Takes a Turn

      Atlanta Journal-Constitution  |  Jun 11, 07 6:10 PM CDT

      Teen Sex Case Takes a Turn

      (Newser) - A judge ordered a 21-year-old Georgia man freed from prison today, ruling that his 10-year sentence for aggravated child molestation—receiving consensual oral sex from a 15-year-old when he was 17—was "cruel and unusual" and that keeping him incarcerated would be a "miscarriage of justice." The attorney general promptly announced his intention to appeal, stalling Genarlow Wilson's release. More »

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      Georgia  • prison  • Jimmy Carter  • courts  • child molestation  • oral sex  • Genarlow Wilson

    • Weeping Heiress Sent Back to Cell

      Los Angeles Times  |  Jun 8, 07 4:15 PM CDT

      Weeping Heiress Sent Back to Cell

      (Newser) - Paris Hilton is back in lockup after a courtroom scene worthy of a daytime soap, with the 26-year-old celebutante led from the room weeping and wailing, "Mom, Mom! It's not right!" Judge Michael Sauer, miffed that the scofflaw heiress had been sprung after just 3 days of a his 45-day sentence, remanded her after failing to get a good explanation—or any explanation—for why she was released to house arrest. More »

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      prison  • Paris Hilton  • celebrity trials  • LA County Jail  • Judge Michael Sauer

    • Rights Groups Pressure US

      Reuters  |  Jun 8, 07 9:36 AM CDT

      Rights Groups Pressure US

      (Newser) - Six prominent human rights groups want the US to disclose the whereabouts of 39 terrorism suspects, or "ghost prisoners," believed to have been in government custody. The organizations released a report today charging that children as young as 7 have been detained, invoking the loaded term "disappeared," and urging the US to abandon the use of secret prisons. More »

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      children  • CIA  • War on Terror  • terrorist  • prison  • human rights  • Amnesty International

    • Judge Fumes as Paris Goes From Big House to Big House

      CNN  |  Jun 8, 07 7:35 AM CDT

      Judge Fumes as Paris Goes From Big House to Big House

      (Newser) - A livid judge ordered Paris Hilton to appear in court today, prompting speculation that the heiress may be headed back behind bars after a night of beauty rest at her Hollywood Hills mansion. Prosecutors charged that the sheriff who released her for mysterious "medical" reasons after just three days was in contempt of court. More »

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      celebrity  • prison  • Paris Hilton  • court  • mansion  • LA County Jail  • Lee Baca  • Judge Michael Sauer

    • Still Crazy After All These Years

      Washington Post  |  Jun 6, 07 9:46 PM CDT

      Still Crazy After All These Years

      (Newser) - Burt and Linda Pugach are having their third 15 minutes. The first was in 1959, when Burt hired a thug to throw lye in Linda's face after she broke up with him. The second, in 1974, was when, Linda, now blind, agreed to marry Burt, just released from jail. And now comes a new documentary about the couple aptly called "Crazy Love."  More »

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      marriage  • prison  • blindness

    • Prison Hasn't Mellowed Dr. Death

      New York Times  |  Jun 4, 07 6:02 AM CDT

      Prison Hasn't Mellowed Dr. Death

      (Newser) - Jack Kevorkian, who was paroled Friday after 8 years in prison, says he won't be involved in any more suicides—except perhaps his own. "When I’m going to do it, I’m going to do it right,” he tells the New York Times . But prison hasn't blunted the passion for phsyician-assisted suicides that earned  the combative former pathologist the sobriquet Dr. Death. More »

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      murder  • suicide  • prison  • death  • Oregon  • assisted suicide  • physician assisted suicide  • Jack Kevorkian  • Dr. Death  • Jack Kervorkian

  • May 2007