4 d. ago Bookmaker linked to baseball star Shohei Ohtani's interpreter sentenced to just over a year

A Southern California bookmaker who took thousands of sports bets from the former interpreter for baseball star Shohei Ohtani was sentenced to just over a year in prison

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1 week ago Former NBA star Shawn Kemp gets 30 days of home monitoring for Washington parking lot shooting

Former NBA star Shawn Kemp was sentenced to 30 days of electronic home monitoring for shooting at two men inside a vehicle in a Washington state mall parking lot

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2 w. ago ‘Death always feels imminent’: a moving Netflix documentary on prison, music and forgiveness

In Songs from the Hole, a man convicted of murder when he was a teenager finds healing in music during his sentenceIn 2014, a sergeant at a California state prison sent James “JJ’88” Jacobs, who was 25 at the time, to “the hole” – solitary confinement in a 6-by-6 cell. One bunk, one strip of a window. Jacobs had already been incarcerated for a decade by then; at 15, he was given a double life sentence for second-degree murder. Alone in the hole, Jacobs thought, as he always did, about the most devastating month of his life, April 2004: on the 16th, he shot and killed a fellow teenager outside a nightclub in his home town of Long Beach, California. Three days later, another young man shot and killed his beloved older brother Victor. For years, Jacobs was caught in a terrible cycle of grief – for what he had done, for what had been done to him.In the hole, Jacobs would lie on the floor, eyes closed, and imagine his life outside prison. He’d make beats by pounding on his bunk or chest....

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3 w. ago Robinho's one year in prison – Job behind bars, new company launch, family visits

Former Manchester City and Real Madrid star Robinho has served the first year of his prison sentence in Sao Paulo after being found guilty of rape

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3 w. ago 'Chimp Crazy' star sentenced to nearly 4 years in prison for lying that primate had died

A Missouri woman who starred in the HBO documentary series “Chimp Crazy” has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison after she lied that a movie star primate that she was accused of mistreating had died

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3 w. ago Star of HBO’s Chimp Crazy sentenced to nearly four years in prison

Tonia Haddix sentenced after lying that movie star primate she was accused of mistreating had diedA Missouri woman who starred in the HBO documentary series Chimp Crazy has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison after she lied that a movie star primate that she was accused of mistreating had died.Tonia Haddix, 56, was also ordered to serve three years of supervised release after her 46-month prison sentence ends. Continue reading...

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