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A former Minneapolis parks police chief was sentenced Monday to 18 years in prison for molesting a teenage boy who was a family friend. William Allan Jacobs, 68, of Lutsen pleaded guilty in March to three counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct and three counts of possessing child...

Attachment 24619 Notorious killer Charles Manson has long gray hair and beard, a photo issued by California prison officials shows. The mug shot, taken at the state prison in Corcoran State Prison last June but released a week ahead of his upcoming parole hearing, shows Manson, 77, still has a...

A Belarusian who operated a rent-an-accomplice business for bank thieves has been sentenced to 33 months in prison in New York. Some interesting read I came across to share. Any comments?

AP - A fight among inmates led to a prison riot in northern Mexico that killed 44 people Sunday, a security official said. More...

An Indiana man who manufactured counterfeit credit cards and sold them online was sentenced Friday to 14 years in prison for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, the U.S. Department of Justice said. More...

A California man was sentenced to 12 years and seven months in prison Thursday for his role as the brains behind a widespread phishing scam that took in more than 38,000 victims. More...

TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands (AP) — A former official of the tourist board in the British Virgin Islands has been sentenced to prison for spending hundreds of thousands of dollars of public money on personal items. Verna Maduro was the tourist board's financial comptroller for nearly eight...

A Minnesota man has been sentenced to 18 years in prison after he hacked a neighbor's Wi-Fi router and then launched a vengeful two-year campaign to frame them with child pornography and threats to government officials, including Vice President Joe Biden. More...

A Minnesota hacker prosecutors described as a “depraved criminal” was handed an 18-year prison term Tuesday for unleashing a vendetta of cyberterror that turned his neighbor’s lives into a living nightmare. Check this article out. What do you guys think?

PONTIAC, Ill., -- Convicted killer Christopher Coleman will be moved to a prison outside of Illinois, prison officials say. Coleman, the former bodyguard of televangelist Joyce Meyer who was convicted of strangling his wife and two young sons, will soon be moved to a prison outside of...

Caracas, Venezuela (CNN) -- Authorities in Venezuela are fighting to regain control of a prison complex where armed inmates and troops have been clashing for days. Some 2,500 inmates have been transferred from the Rodeo I prison to other prisons, Venezuelan Interior Minister Tareck El Aissami...

GUATIRE, Venezuela – Thousands of National Guard troops stormed a Venezuelan prison Friday seeking to disarm inmates days after a bloody riot, setting off gunfights with resisting inmates that left at least one soldier dead and 19 wounded. Bursts of gunfire erupted inside the El Rodeo I prison...

ROME, N.Y. – Former New York Giants star Plaxico Burress was released from prison on Monday after spending nearly two years behind bars on a gun charge and headed to Florida to be with his family as he contemplates his chances of playing again in the NFL. As he left Oneida Correctional Facility...

Los Angeles (CNN) -- California officials said Tuesday they won't arbitrarily free 33,000 inmates and they will submit plans to the federal courts in two weeks specifying ways to remedy prison overcrowding under a U.S. Supreme Court order this week. "The goal is not to release anybody early,"...

SUDBURY, England, -- Staff at an open prison in England learned lawbreakers can get in as well as out when they discovered tools missing from a workshop. The burglary at the Sudbury Prison took place sometime before 9 a.m. Monday, the Derby Telegraph reported. In addition to tools...

<div>A German man was sentenced to six months in federal prison for bringing hundreds of tarantulas into the United States by mail. U.S. District Judge S. James Otero said he hoped the sentencing of Sven Koppler, 37, of Wachtburg, Germany, would deter others from trying to smuggle animals into...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Reality TV star Richard Hatch presented himself to U.S. marshals in Rhode Island on Monday to begin a nine-month prison sentence for failing to pay taxes on the $1 million he won on first season of the CBS show "Survivor." Hatch arrived at U.S. District Court in Providence...

- Mexican officials have launched an investigation into allegations that a reputed Mexican drug cartel "queen" received a beauty treatment while in prison. The Mexico City District Attorney's Office alleges that Sandra Avila Beltran, who faces charges of drug trafficking, money laundering and...

A former Calgary scout leader who admitted to running a brothel for pedophiles in Thailand has been sentenced in New Jersey to 25 years in prison. The federal judge on Monday said it was unlikely that John Wrenshall — who had also been convicted of sexual assault involving members of a Calgary...

- A female correctional officer at a Washington state prison was strangled and an inmate who told officers he had planned to escape is under investigation, authorities said Sunday. Jayme Biendl, 34, was discovered late Saturday night after workers at the Monroe Correctional Complex noticed her...