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Man Charged For Torturing Prisoners
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. – A Tennessee man was arraigned today on charges that he tortured prisoners during the armed conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s. According to a superseding indictment returned…
Naturalized U.S. Citizen Charged with Fraudulently Obtaining Citizenship by Failing to Disclose Role in Abuse of Prisoners
A naturalized U.S. citizen from Bosnia and Herzegovina was arrested yesterday in Morgantown, West Virginia, on criminal charges related to allegations that she lied to obtain U.S. citizenship. According to the indictment,…
Hamas says Israel truce will bring in aid, free prisoners
By Enas Alashray, Ahmed Tolba and Andrew Mills CAIRO/DOHA (Reuters) – Hamas said on Wednesday it agreed with Israel to a four-day ceasefire that will see the release of hostages in Gaza…
Senior U.S. lawmaker pushes Biden on prisoners ahead of Xi meeting -letter
By Patricia Zengerle and Michael Martina WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee urged President Joe Biden to use his upcoming meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping…
Republicans demand Biden challenge China’s Xi on fentanyl, prisoners
By Michael Martina WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republicans in the U.S. Congress urged President Joe Biden to make demands of China’s leader Xi Jinping over detained Americans and other issues when they meet…
Spying, Stealing And Spinning For Terrorists: Meet The Prisoners Joe Biden Is Reportedly Freeing For Iran
Spying, Stealing And Spinning For Terrorists: Meet The Prisoners Joe Biden Is Reportedly Freeing For Iran Jake Smith on September 18, 2023 The Biden administration struck a deal with Iran to release…
Bahrain prisoners suspend hunger strike as crown prince heads to Washington
By Aziz El Yaakoubi RIYADH (Reuters) – Hundreds of political prisoners in Bahrain suspended a hunger strike after the government promised to improve prison conditions, rights groups said, as the Gulf state’s…
Factbox-Iranian-American prisoners involved in swap, fund release
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran has agreed with Washington to free five U.S. citizens in exchange for the transfer of $6 billion in frozen Iranian assets in South Korea to banks in Qatar…
Bahrain political prisoners reject government offer, extend hunger strike
By Aziz El Yaakoubi DUBAI (Reuters) – Political prisoners on hunger strike in Bahrain have rebuffed government concessions and will extend their protest, raising the stakes in the biggest showdown for years…
Biden Admin Agrees To $6 Billion Deal With Iran In Exchange For American Prisoners: REPORT
Biden Admin Agrees To $6 Billion Deal With Iran In Exchange For American Prisoners: REPORT Jake Smith on August 10, 2023 The United States and Iran have reached a deal to free…
Nearly a sixth of Ecuador’s prisoners held without sentence -census
QUITO (Reuters) – Nearly a sixth of the inmates in Ecuador’s prisons have not been sentenced, a national census showed on Monday, as President Guillermo Lasso urged the judicial system to be…
Taxpayers To Give Prisoners $130 Million Worth Of College Aid
Taxpayers To Give Prisoners $130 Million Worth Of College Aid Will Kessler on June 28, 2023 An expansion of federal student aid for the 2023-2024 academic year will cost taxpayers $130 million…
Political prisoners among 2,000 pardoned by Myanmar junta
(Reuters) – Myanmar’s military government on Wednesday pardoned more than 2,000 prisoners, state media reported, among them a journalist and what activists and media said were numerous political detainees. State television MRTV…
Ukraine, Russia swap prisoners; bodies of British volunteers returned
(Reuters) -Ukraine and Russia traded almost 200 prisoners of war in a swap announced separately by both sides on Saturday, with the bodies of two British volunteers also being sent back to…
Former Prisoners Thankful for CARE Court and Lessons it Taught Them
About 25 percent of released prisoners in Florida end up reoffending. The transition from incarceration to the community is full of challenges and unanticipated impediments. That’s where a Court-Assisted Re-Entry (CARE) Initiative…
Texas Man Pleads Guilty To Operating Meth Delivery Drone For Prisoners
Texas Man Pleads Guilty To Operating Meth Delivery Drone For Prisoners Trevor Schakohl on October 7, 2022 A Texas man pleaded guilty Wednesday to flying a drug and electronics-carrying drone into…
Fraudsters Stole $45 Billion In Unemployment Benefits Using Dead People, Prisoners: REPORT
The Department of Labor announced Thursday that 1,000 people have been charged for receiving $45.6 billion of fraudulent unemployment insurance (UI) payments since March 2020. The pandemic overwhelmed state offices responsible for…
Mexico has released nearly 2,700 prisoners early as overall jail population grows
By Brendan O’Boyle MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico has released thousands of prisoners during Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s presidency as part of an effort to free those who have not committed serious…
Russia is preventing access to Ukraine war prisoners, UN says
By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -The head of the U.N. human rights mission in Ukraine said on Friday that Russia is not allowing access to prisoners of war, adding that the U.N.…
State Prisoners Sentenced to Federal Prison for Unemployment Insurance Fraud
ALBANY, NEW YORK – Reginald Thornton, age 29, and Lord Paulin, age 41, were sentenced today to federal terms of imprisonment for defrauding pandemic-related unemployment insurance programs while they were serving state…
More than 40% of Prisoners Released by Phil Murphy COVID-19 Release Were Denied Parole Earlier
TRENTON, NJ – A report today issued by New Jersey Assemblywoman Aura Dunn and Assemblyman Hal Wirths shows more than 40% of inmates released under the reckless executive order free inmates during…
Russian parliament to consider ban on exchanging Ukrainian Azov prisoners
(Reuters) -Russia’s parliament will consider banning the exchange of Russian prisoners of war for captured members of Ukraine’s Azov Regiment, the speaker said on Tuesday, after the last Ukrainian defenders of Mariupol’s…
China Harvests Organs From Tens Of Thousands Of Living Prisoners Each Year, Activist Tells Congress
China Harvests Organs From Tens Of Thousands Of Living Prisoners Each Year, Activist Tells Congress Philip Lenczycki on May 13, 2022 The Chinese government harvests tens of thousands of organs from prisoners…
Saudi-led coalition transfers scores of freed prisoners to Yemen
ADEN -The Saudi-led coalition engaged in Yemen said on Friday it transported more than 100 freed prisoners to Yemen in coordination with the International Committee of the Red Cross in a humanitarian…
Myanmar junta says 1,600 prisoners to be freed in holiday amnesty
(Reuters) – Relatives of hundreds of prisoners gathered outside Myanmar’s Insein Prison on Sunday after the military government announced the release of 1,600 prisoners in an amnesty to mark the Southeast Asian…
Prisoners at Female Only New Jersey Prison Pregnant By Other Inmate
It’s a women-only prison, but that didn’t stop two female inmates from getting pregnant by a third inmate. The Department of Corrections said the pregnancy occurred through a consensual relationship with an…
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