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Dungeon demon: Josef Fritzl built his cellar prison without neighbours questioning it Josef Fritzl moved 197 tonnes of earth to create the secret underground dungeon without any of his neighbours, tenants or family asking questions, Austrian police revealed today. The news came as detectives completed...
Comments Murderers and sex offenders at Britain's top security prisons are to be allowed to keep games consoles in their cells as a way of relieving their boredom, it was revealed yesterday. Inmates at the jails - which hold some of the country's most dangerous inmates, including terrorists, will...
A weeping Remy Ma was sentenced to eight years in prison Tuesday for shooting a woman outside a Manhattan nightclub. "I feel so bad for all the physical and mental pain you've gone through," the Grammy-nominated rapper told the victim. "This has taken a toll on us and both our families. I would...
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has dumped his plan to release about 22,000 lower-risk inmates from prison before they complete their terms. The Bee learned this week that he will jettison Wednesday the plan, which would have freed prisoners doing time for crimes such as drug possession and...
By Mary Schenk Monday May 12, 2008 Having a son who is mentally ill and now in prison for robbery, Karen Sparr, 54, has had her fair share of heartache. Although a seemingly tireless advocate for her son, Anthony "Tony" Harris, 34, Sparr admits that loving someone with a mental illness can be...
Posted to the web 13 May 2008 Douala Carlos Feudjio Diffo, now 22, spent a year of his life in Douala's notorious central prison when he was 15. He recounted his experience to IRIN. "I was arrested at my house for stealing money. Basically, my best friend had given me 850,000 CFA francs...
Posted to the web 13 May 2008 Douala Many people under the age of 18 were arrested and imprisoned during riots over high food prices in February and more than two months later some are still behind bars. "Currently we have five minors being detained at the central prison," said Joseph Tsala...
Three suspects who were arrested in the capital over the weekend in connection with a burglary at a Prisons depot storeroom along Krupp Street made their first appearance in the Windhoek Magistrate's Court yesterday on charges of theft and housebreaking.
By CHRIS ECHEGARAY Staff Writer CROSSVILLE, Tenn. - In a bedroom of a white ranch-style home, Joyce House, mother of death row inmate Paul Gregory House, has a touch lamp on a night table next to a bed. After he spent 20-plus years behind bars for a 1985 murder, Joyce House was expecting her son...
Charles Agar Aspen Correspondent, Vail, CO Colorado ASPEN, Colorado — It appears that a Pitkin County woman’s appeal to get less time in prison might have backfired. Last Friday a federal judge found Gwen Bergman guilty of attempting to hire a hit man to kill Aspen resident John LaCouture, the...
