[Link] 'He has been significantly punished': Prison escape lands man in solitary confinement for a year, court hears

Read: 30/11/2021 www.abc.net.au

Jason Gregory Burdon has pleaded guilty to escaping from the maximum security prison's kitchen area in December last year, using items of clothing as a rope to climb out of a metal louvre window.

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[Link] Father and Son Help Crack Unsolved 1969 Bank Robbery

Read: 15/11/2021 www.nytimes.com

Theodore J. Conrad pulled off one of the biggest bank robberies in Cleveland’s history. The case eluded officials for decades, until an obituary appeared online and family secrets began to unravel. The boy watched as his father, John K.

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[Link] Las Patronas: The Rise of Female Drug Bosses in Latin America

Read: 26/10/2021 www.vice.com

VICE World News brings you exclusive reporting from Latin America’s criminal underworld on the boss women you’ve never heard of. MEXICO CITY, Mexico — She told me her name was Brenda. When I met her, she had been in the Pavón prison on the outskirts of Guatemala City for 20 years.

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[Link] The World's First Ransomware Came on a Floppy Disk in 1989

Read: 23/10/2021 www.vice.com

In December 1989, Willems worked at a Belgian insurance firm, and put the disk into a work computer. Bizarrely, it presented a questionnaire, the answers of which told the user whether or not they were in danger of contracting HIV/AIDS. Willems completed the quiz, and didn't think much more of it.

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[Link] Court Mistakenly Gave Potential Jurors Access to Ahmaud Arbery’s Mental Health History

Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Those documents include specifics about Arbery’s mental health and prior criminal history that a judge ordered suppressed and never brought up in court.

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