Iran’s judiciary: Israeli strike on Tehran’s Evin prison killed 71

Agence France Presse 06/29/2025

TEHRAN — An Israeli strike on Tehran’s Evin prison earlier this week killed at least 71 people, Iran’s judiciary said Sunday, days after a ceasefire ended a 12-day war between the two arch-foes. “According to official figures,…

Costa Rica: Prison guards catch drug-smuggling purr-petrator

Agence France Presse 05/21/2025

Guards in Costa Rica have intercepted an unusual prison drug delivery, catching a cat as it jumped over the periphery fence at night with marijuana and crack taped to its body. The black-and-white feline, carrying over 230…

Mary Jane Veloso on Indonesia death row recalls a stunning last minute reprieve and ‘miracle’ transfer

Agence France Presse and Associated Press 12/16/2024

YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Filipino death row inmate Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso knelt to pray when officers came to take her to an execution site in May 2015, just a few feet away from her isolation cell…

1980 conviction reversed: US woman free after 43 years in prison

Associated Press 07/21/2024

CHILLICOTHE, Missouri — A woman whose murder conviction was overturned after she served 43 years in prison was released Friday, July 19, after Missouri’s attorney general fought for more than a month to keep her behind bars.…

Former NBA player Rashid Byrd sentenced to 90 years in prison for sexual assault

INQUIRER.net US Bureau 03/02/2024

LOS ANGELES – Former NBA player Rashid Byrd has been sentenced to 90 years to life in state prison for a series of violent sexual assaults that occurred in Los Angeles and Santa Clara counties from 2015 to 2020,…

Pistorius, South African athlete who killed girlfriend, is freed from prison 

Associated Press 01/05/2024

PRETORIA, South Africa — South African athlete Oscar Pistorius has been released from prison on parole after serving nearly nine years in prison for killing his girlfriend and is now at home, South Africa’s Department of Corrections…

Mother gets life sentence for fatal shooting of 6-year-old son at Ohio hotel

Associated Press 12/19/2023

BROOKLYN, Ohio — A mother who shot and killed her 6-year-old son in an Ohio hotel after taking him there for a special day of fun was sentenced Monday to life in prison. Daneicha Bringht, 31, of…

Chopped body found in Bilibid septic tank

Tetch Torres-Tupas 07/26/2023

MANILA, Philippines — A chopped body was discovered inside a septic tank of a dormitory in the New Bilibid Prison (NBP), a jail official said Wednesday. NBP Acting Superintendent Sr. Insp. Angelina Bautista, however, said they have…

Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten released from prison

07/12/2023

Leslie Van Houten, once part of the “Manson family” that carried out Charles Manson’s orders in a killing spree that terrorized Los Angeles in 1969, was released from prison on parole on Tuesday after 53 years, her…

Honduras massacre: 46 women slaughtered by gang members in prison

AP 06/22/2023

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Gang members in a women’s prison in Honduras slaughtered 46 other women inmates by spraying them with gunfire, hacking them with machetes and then locking survivors in their cells and dousing them with flammable…

Ecuador authorities confiscate pigs, fighting cocks from prison

Reuters 06/17/2023

Ecuadorean security forces have confiscated pigs, fighting cocks and more than two dozen bladed weapons, among other items, from a high-security wing of Bellavista prison in the city of Santo Domingo, the country’s military said on Friday.…

Solons OK with stiffer child abuse penalties; lukewarm on jailing parents

Gabriel Pabico Lalu 05/15/2023

MANILA, Philippines — While there was unanimous support for the amendment of current laws to ensure stiffer penalty for child abuse, lawmakers and resource persons issued concerns with proposals to provide prison terms as penalties for parents…

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