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[Link] A Warden Who Ran a Prison Called the ‘Rape Club’ Is Now on Trial for Sex Abuse

Read: 29/11/2022 www.vice.com

The sexual abuse trial of a California warden who used to run a federal prison known as a “rape club” kicked off Monday, with emotional testimony from one of the women he stands accused of abusing.

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[Link] Convicted Fyre Festival Fraudster Is Planning Another Bahamas Venture, But the Bahamas Don't Want Him

Read: 29/11/2022 www.vice.com

Billy McFarland, the Fyre Festival founder who went to jail for defrauding investors to the tune of $26 million, is back at it again with another venture in the Bahamas.

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[Link] Proud Boys leader arrested on US Capitol attack conspiracy charge

Read: 9/3/2022 www.theguardian.com

Enrique Tarrio, a leader of the Proud Boys far-right group, has been arrested and charged with conspiracy over the attack on the US Capitol on 6 January 2021.

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[Link] Hardcore Bitcoiners Turn on Ross Ulbricht for Selling an NFT From Prison

Read: 1/12/2021 www.vice.com

Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the online drug marketplace the Silk Road that helped put Bitcoin on the map in its earliest days, is minting an NFT.

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[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] 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] Two Dead After 12 Inmates Tried to Get Drunk on Hand Sanitizer

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

Two prison inmates died and ten others were hospitalised in Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo after they ingested hand sanitiser to get drunk, prompting a ban on alcohol-based sanitising products in all prisons across the country, according to the Department of Prisons.

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[Link] Warring Gangs Beheaded at Least 6 People in Ecuador's Bloodiest Prison Riot Ever

Read: 1/10/2021 www.vice.com

The latest conflict began with explosions and gunshots at the Litoral prison in the coastal city of Guayaquil on Tuesday.

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[Link] Rikers Island Inmate Calls Into Radio Show to Talk About How Bad It Is

Read: 1/10/2021 www.vice.com

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[Link] ‘Psychological violence’: Alexei Navalny says he is forced to watch eight hours of state TV a day

Read: 26/8/2021 www.theguardian.com

Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has given his first interview from prison, comparing it to a Chinese labor camp and saying he is forced to watch eight hours of state television a day.

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[Link] Australia may miss treaty deadline to establish torture protections for prisons, advocates warn

Read: 6/8/2021 www.theguardian.com

Australia could miss an international deadline to introduce new safeguards against torture and abuse in jails, human rights advocates have warned.

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