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prison stories: 183 news summaries

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 Phil Spector, Unveiled 


Jun 10, 09 9:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - What a difference a wig—or lack of one—makes. California released the prison mug shot of Phil Spector today, revealing him to be a rather ordinary looking bald guy, the Daily News reports. The renowned music producer, always seen in public (and court) with a very full head of... More »

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Phil Spector • Lana Clarkson • prison • crime • murder • wigs

Journalists Face Hellish Sentence in Korean Gulag

Survivors describe torture, starvation in 're-education' camps

Jun 9, 09 6:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - The 12 years of hard labor facing Euna Lee and Laura Ling hardly seem like a weekend in county lockup, but yesterday's sentence is particularly brutal in North Korea, where prisoners routinely face torture and often death. The two journalists may be sent to a re-education reformatory, reports the Los ... More »

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North Korea • prison • journalist • sentence • Euna Lee • Laura Ling

(Newser) - The "shocked and devastated" families of two San Francisco journalists sentenced to 12 years hard labor in North Korea have pleaded with authorities to show compassion and free the women from a grueling future behind bars. The families are concerned about the "wellbeing and mental state" of Euna... More »

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China • North Korea • South Korea • prison • trial • Current TV • prisoner • sentence • Euna Lee • Laura Ling

(Newser) - The collective freak-out over closing Guantanamo proves that Americans do care about prisons and prisoners, but Gitmo “is a mere speck in the eye of America’s larger prison program,” writes Dahlia Lithwick in Newsweek. That’s why Sen. Jim Webb of the “lock ‘em... More »

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prison • Guantanamo Bay • mental illness • prison system • James Webb • inmates • prison population

Colorado Town Would Welcome Gitmo Inmates

Supermax is already home to Unabomber, '20th hijacker'

Jun 4, 09 7:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - Members of Congress have protested President Obama's efforts to move Guantanamo inmates to US prisons, but residents of Florence, Colo., say they wouldn't mind taking in a few enemy combatants. The supermax prison near town already holds some of the world's most infamous terrorists: a 1993 World Trade Center assailant,... More »

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prison • Guantanamo Bay • detainee • federal prison • Colorado • Guantanamo prisoners • Supermax

French Cons Roll in 'Penal Tour de France'

Breakaway sprints banned as prisoners set off on 1,500 mile exercise

Jun 4, 09 3:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Nearly 200 French prisoners hit the road today for the first penal Tour de France, the BBC reports. The inmates, accompanied by over 100 cycling gendarmes, will make stops in 17 towns—each with a prison—over the course of the 1500 mile race. The prisoners will cycle in a... More »

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prison • France • cycling • Tour de France • prisoner

 Pregnant Brit Gets  
 Life Sentence in Laos 

Convicted of trafficking 1.5 pounds of heroin

Jun 3, 09 9:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - A pregnant British woman convicted of drug trafficking in Laos last year has been handed a life sentence, AFP reports. Samantha Orobator, 20, who was nabbed while trying to board a plane to Thailand, had been found found guilty of trafficking 1.5 pounds of heroin, said a UK embassy... More »

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pregnancy • drugs • prison • crime • heroin • Laos • drug trafficking • Britain • life sentence • Samantha Orobator

Freed Would-Be Ford Assassin: 'It Was Wrong'

She thought it would spark revolution

May 28, 09 11:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - The woman who attempted to assassinate President Gerald Ford in 1975 says she was “misled” and “mistaken” to do so. “I really thought that it would trigger a new revolution,” Sara Jane Moore told NBC today after serving 32 years in prison. “I think I... More »

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prison • crime • Gerald Ford • assassination attempt • Sara Jane Moore

(Newser) - That Drew Peterson is quite a card. In prison on charges of murdering his third wife, Peterson called a Chicago radio station this morning to crack jokes about prison life, reports TMZ. Among other things, Peterson told the Mancow & Cassidy show on WLS-AM that they should run a “... More »

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Chicago • prison • crime • Drew Peterson • jokes • Erich "Mancow" Muller

 TI Checks Into Jail Early 

Rapper will serve 366 days on weapons charges

May 26, 09 1:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - Rapper TI began his prison sentence early today, leaving his home in Georgia and checking into the Arkansas federal facility before the noon deadline, TMZ reports. The time is a year and a day in the minimum-security Forrest City prison; the crime was attempting to buy unregistered machine guns and... More »

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prison • rapper • sentence • weapons charges • T.I. • machine guns

How Many Cigarettes for
a Cell Phone?

Prisons awash in smuggled phones as authorities crack down

May 26, 09 12:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - We know the kind of thing that gets traded on the prison black market: weapons, alcohol, drugs, cigarettes. Now add cell phones to the list, Time reports: Authorities say there is an epidemic of smuggled cell phones, which have been used to orchestrate crimes, plot escapes, and harass witnesses, in... More »

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California • cell phones • prison • crime • inmates • Kevin Brady

 Journalist Saberi Back in US 


May 22, 09 6:12 PM CDT
(AP) - Roxana Saberi, the journalist who spent 4 months in an Iranian prison, was greeted this afternoon with cheers and hugs from friends as she returned to her native US. Saberi, 32, told reporters at Washington Dulles International Airport that singing the national anthem helped keep her going. "And it... More »

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Iran • prison • journalist • Roxana Saberi

 Vick Begins House Arrest 

He'll work construction while living in his Va. home

May 21, 09 8:08 AM CDT
(AP) - Michael Vick arrived at his Virginia home today after being released yesterday from federal prison. After 19 months in a Kansas lock-up, the suspended NFL player will spend the remaining two months of his sentence for financing a dogfighting operation under home confinement, wearing an electronic monitor and working a... More »

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NFL • prison • Michael Vick • football • Virginia • dogfighting • house arrest

(Newser) - Some 15 vehicles packed with criminals wearing police uniforms arrived at a Mexico prison yesterday to free as many as 59 inmates linked to a drug cartel, reports the BBC. The men convinced guards they were members of the federal police there to conduct an inspection. Once inside, they overpowered... More »

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(Newser) - T.I. has 11 days to arrive at a low-security Arkansas prison for his year-and-a-day sentence on weapons charges, E! Online reports. The 28-year-old rapper, real name Clifford J. Harris Jr., will likely spend less than 2 months at the Forrest City federal prison, thanks to early release and... More »

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prison • rapper • sentence • weapons charges • T.I. • Clifford J. Harris Jr.

Prisoners Run
Crime Ops Via
PlayStation

Console used to pass messages, charge cell phones: UK watchdog

May 13, 09 8:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - Organized criminals use PlayStation and interactive games to pass on orders while behind bars, says a British agency monitoring 5,000 global crime lords. The masterminds also charge illegally kept cell phones through the gaming console. A prison spokesman refuted the charge, saying that only older versions of such devices—... More »

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Internet • prison • crime • organized crime • video game console • prisoners • PlayStation • Jay-ZTV

Federal Judge Gets 3 Years in Sex Abuse Case

Congressmen press for resignation of Kent in first-ever such case

May 12, 09 9:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Texas judge was sentenced yesterday to 33 months in prison for lying to investigators in the first sex abuse case ever against a sitting federal judge, the AP reports. Samuel Kent pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice in February; five sex-crimes charges related to two female employees were dismissed.... More »

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Texas • prison • crime • sexual harassment • sexual abuse • judge • obstruction of justice • guilty plea • molestation • Samuel Kent

Glossies

In Recession, Sewage Tour, Offbeat Destinations Thrive

Offbeat local museums, tours see record demand

May 10, 09 1:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - With fancy island getaways now out of most people's price range, alternative attractions are gaining ground, Newsweek reports. Local families have begun flocking to Louisiana's oil rig museum, San Francisco's sewage-plant tour, and Ireland's Famine Museum, perhaps in a spirit of "things are bad, but at least they're not... More »

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prison • tourism • museum • oil rig • economy • sewage plant

(Newser) - The mom of a pregnant London woman who may face a Laotian firing squad for drug smuggling pleaded with government officials to save "my baby, my angel," reports the Telegraph. "I'm appealing to the British government, to the Laos authorities, to please release her. I'm down on... More »

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pregnancy • London • prison • Laos • death row • Britain • firing squad • drug smuggling • Samantha Orobator • Jane Orobator

(Newser) - A young pregnant Londoner could face a firing squad in Laos if she's convicted of drug smuggling charges in a trial that begins today, reports the Guardian. Samantha Orobator, 20, has not been allowed legal representation in the nine months she has been languishing in notorious Phonthong prison, and it's... More »

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drugs • London • prison • Laos • drug smuggling • Samantha Orobator

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