Tennessee teacher Alissa McCommon who raped student, 12, inside her home and got pregnant, sentenced to 25 years in prison
A former Tennessee teacher who raped and impregnated a 12-year-old boy inside his home was sentenced Friday to 25 years in prison for a heinous sex crime. One of the victim's family members told the educator he once trusted to “burn in hell.'' ” Alyssa McConmon, a fourth-grade teacher in Tipton County, pleaded guilty to […]
Elderly activist to spend Christmas in prison because tag does not fit | Prisons and probation
A 77-year-old environmental activist will spend Christmas in prison after authorities can't find an electronic device small enough to fit on his wrist, despite being released with an electronic tag. Gaie Delap, a former teacher and Quaker from Bristol, was jailed in August along with four co-defendants for taking part in the destructive Just Stop […]
Craig Wright, who falsely claimed to be Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto, gets suspended prison sentence for contempt of court – AOL
A British judge handed down the sentence for Craig Wright. He claimed to be Bitcoin's mysterious founder, Satoshi Nakamoto (pseudonym), and violated a court order to stop taking related legal action. He received a one-year suspended prison sentence. Craig Wright, an Australian computer scientist who falsely claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto for years, was found […]
Luigi Mangione stayed at same NYC prison as Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs
Accused UnitedHealthcare CEO killer Luigi Mangione spent his first night back in the Big Apple in the same New York City federal prison as disgraced rap mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs. The two inmates are being held at Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center as they await trial in their respective high-profile federal cases. Mangione was arrested on […]
Oklahoma substitute teacher, Emma Delaney Hancock, sentenced to prison for sexually abusing teen
The daughter of an Oklahoma mayor and the wife of the town's police chief was sentenced Wednesday for soliciting sexual favors from a 15-year-old student she taught. Emma Delaney Hancock, 28, will spend the next four years in prison on two counts of using technology to solicit sex from a minor, KFOR reported. She is […]
Fake bitcoin inventor Craig Wright sentenced to year in prison
An Australian computer scientist who falsely claimed to have invented Bitcoin filed a 911 billion pound ($1.2 trillion) lawsuit against Twitter founder Jack Dorsey's British payments company Block on Thursday. He was found guilty of contempt of court. Craig Wright has long claimed to be the author of the 2008 white paper underlying Bitcoin, published […]
French husband who invited dozens of men over to rape wife Gisèle Pelicot found guilty, sentenced to 20 years in prison
Avignon, France – A French court on Thursday accused Gisele Pericot's ex-husband of drugging her, raping her, and then forcing another man to rape her while she was unconscious, for nearly a decade of abuse. He was sentenced to a maximum of 20 years in prison. . Dominic Perico's sentence was pronounced after he was […]
Nearly $116M Awarded to Female Inmates in California Prison Sex Abuse Settlement
More than 100 women who say they were abused and sexually assaulted at a California prison known as a “rape club” have won nearly $116 million in a settlement agreement. The content of the negotiations is resolved The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday agreed to pay an average of about $1.1 million each to […]
US Officials Fear ISIS Prison Break Will Unleash ‘Terrorist Army’ On Middle East
US officials warned on Wednesday that thousands of ISIS members currently imprisoned in Syria could eventually escape prison, Politico reported. After the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime, the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) violently invaded the territory of the US-backed Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). The SDF currently holds 9,000 ISIS fighters and […]
DOJ to pay nearly $116M to sexual abuse victims at California women’s prison
The Justice Department has been ordered to pay nearly $116 million to 103 women who say they were abused at a now-closed federal correctional facility in Dublin, Calif., dubbed the Rape Club. The settlement, approved Tuesday, will pay an average of $1.1 million to each woman who accused the prison of abuse and sexual abuse […]