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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] Mafia hitman escapes from federal custody in Florida

Read: 2/4/2022 www.theguardian.com

A New York mobster who killed three people and attempted to kill two others has escaped from federal custody after recently being moved to a halfway house, according to the Bureau of Prisons.

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[Link] A Women's Prison Nurse Sexually Assaulted 12 Incarcerated Women, DOJ Says

Read: 16/3/2022 www.vice.com

The nurse, Tony Daniel Klein, is facing 21 counts of “depriving the victims of their constitutional right not to be subjected to cruel and unusual punishment by sexually assaulting them.

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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] Oklahoma executes man for 2001 murders of two hotel workers

Read: 27/1/2022 www.theguardian.com

Oklahoma executed a man Thursday for the murders of two hotel workers during a robbery in 2001. Donald Grant, 46, received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma state penitentiary in McAlester and was declared dead at 10.16am.

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[Link] Marjorie Taylor Greene Says Jailed Jan. 6 Defendants Abused ‘Because of the Color of Their Skin’

Read: 8/12/2021 www.vice.com

Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene claimed that the people behind bars for their alleged role in the Jan.

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[Link] Prisons transcribe private phone calls with inmates using speech-to-text AI

Read: 6/12/2021 www.theregister.com

In brief Prisons around the US are installing AI speech-to-text models to automatically transcribe conversations with inmates during their phone calls.

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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] Fundraiser for US man exonerated after 43 years in prison tops $1.4m

Read: 28/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

By mid-afternoon on Saturday, a fundraiser for a man who spent 43 years in prison before a judge in Missouri this week overturned his conviction in a triple murder had raised more than $1.4m.

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[Link] Julius Jones Won't Be Executed

Read: 18/11/2021 www.vice.com

Julius Jones, the Black death row inmate whom Oklahoma planned to kill Thursday afternoon, will be granted clemency, Gov. Kevin Stitt announced. His sentence will be commuted to life in prison without the possibility of parole. 

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[Link] ‘QAnon Shaman’ Sentenced to More Than 3 Years in Prison for Capitol Riot

Read: 17/11/2021 www.vice.com

Jacob Chansley “made himself the very image of the riot,” the judge who sentenced him said. Jacob Chansley, the “QAnon Shaman” also known as Jake Angeli, was sentenced to more than three years in federal prison today.

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[Link] Capital Rioter Begged to Be Released From ‘Cult-Like’ Patriot Wing of DC Jail

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

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. An alleged Capitol rioter was released to the custody of his parents Tuesday after a judge in the case said he was surrounded by the “toxic environment” of the D.C. jail holding dozens of January 6 defendants. 

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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

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. “The only way you get a medical appointment is by laying on the floor, and they have to come get you in a stretcher.

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[Link] ‘Copyright Troll’ Lawyer Seeks to Reduce 14-Year Prison Sentence Due to COVID Pandemic

Read: 31/7/2021 torrentfreak.com

Paul Hansmeier, one of the lead attorneys behind the controversial Prenda Law firm, has asked the court for a reduction of his 14-year prison sentence. The disbarred lawyer says that he faced extraordinarily difficult living conditions in prison due to the COVID pandemic.

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[Link] Biden administration transfers its first detainee out of Guantánamo

Read: 20/7/2021 www.theguardian.com

The Biden administration has transferred a detainee out of the Guantánamo Bay detention facility for the first time, sending a Moroccan man home years after he was recommended for discharge.

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[Link] Assange fiancee rejects US proposals over possible extradition

Read: 14/7/2021 www.theguardian.com

US assurances that Julian Assange would not be held under the strictest maximum-security conditions if extradited from the UK have been rejected by his fiancee, who described them as a formula to keep him in prison for the rest of his life.

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[Link] Bill Cosby parole petition denied after he refuses therapy for sexual offenders

Read: 31/5/2021 www.theguardian.com

The Pennsylvania parole board has turned down comedian Bill Cosby’s petition to be released from a 10-year prison sentence for aggravated indecent assault, citing his refusal to participate in a therapy program for sexually violent predators.

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