6 h. ago DWP issues warning to millions of Brits as woman jailed for £110,000 fraud

A woman from Manchester was sentenced to 20 months in prison after pocketing £110,000 of benefits she was not entitled to

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8 h. ago Failed New Mexico candidate gets 80 years for convictions in shootings at officials’ homes

A failed political candidate has been sentenced to 80 years in federal prison for convictions in a series of drive-by shootings

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8 h. ago Man pleads guilty to killing his mum with her own gun after she took away his phone

A 21-year-old Tennessee man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to murder in the second degree for killing his mother in 2020, court documents show

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14 h. 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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38 h. ago Man who fired a shotgun outside a New York synagogue gets 10 years in prison

A man who fired a shotgun outside a New York synagogue shortly after the Israel-Hamas war began has been sentenced to 10 years in prison

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44 h. ago Mum 'given chance after chance' finally gets put in jail after McDonald's row

Kayleigh Bradley had been given four suspended prison sentences over a 12 month period, but she was finally locked up after she was told she had been given 'chance after chance'

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45 h. ago She had 'chance after chance' but just couldn't stop herself

Her criminal behaviour has finally landed her a prison sentence

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49 h. ago Former Coronation Street resident sentenced to four years in prison offscreen

Offscreen scenes will lead to the news that one Coronation Street character, who exited weeks ago, has been sentenced to four years in prison according to new spoilers

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62 h. ago Expert's new Lucy Letby 'smoking gun' theory claims evidence 'proves she's innocent'

While Lucy Letby remains in prison serving over a dozen whole-life sentences, new evidence unearthed has cast the entirety of the prosecution's case into doubt, an expert has said

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2 d. ago One of UK's worst paedos who filmed himself abusing kids as young as 3 dies in prison

Convicted paedophile Anthony Barron died aged 72 on July 18 this year while serving a life sentence at HMP Ashfield, near Bristol, according to a prison ombudsman

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3 d. ago One of Britain's worst paedophiles dead at 72: Monster who filmed himself abusing children as young as three dies in prison

Anthony Barron, formerly of Grove, Oxfordshire, was sentenced to life in prison in 2007 after pleading guilty to 87 charges of sexual offences against children.

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3 d. ago Cash machine raiders boasted police 'hadn't any concrete evidence' during £700k burglary spree using angle grinders to prise open ATMs

The group, who are now facing prison sentences, used angle grinders and sophisticated 'jaws of life' tools in a looting spree which saw them strike nine times in just under a year.

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3 d. ago Cash machine raiders boasted police 'hadn't any concrete evidence' during £700k burglary spree using angle grinders to prize open ATMs

The group, who are now facing prison sentences, used angle grinders and sophisticated 'jaws of life' tools in a looting spree which saw them strike nine times in just under a year.

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4 d. ago Foreign criminals convicted in UK to be deported immediately under new plans

Deported offenders will be barred from re-entering UK and measures will apply to those in custody too to cut costsMost foreign criminals convicted by a UK court will be deported immediately, instead of 30% of the way through their prison sentences, under plans announced by the government.The justice secretary, Shabana Mahmood, has proposed a change in legislation that will give the government the power to deport most foreign prisoners as soon as they are convicted and incarcerated. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Influencer wife defends Pakistan man after prison sentence over rape threats to air hostess on London

Influencer wife defends Pakistan man after prison sentence over rape threats to air hostess on London-Lahore flight  The Tribune

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5 d. ago Dentist slowly killed wife by poisoning smoothies and tried to recruit daughter to cover tracks

Colorado dentist James Craig has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after being found guilty of fatally poisoning his wife Angela

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5 d. 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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5 d. 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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5 d. 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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5 d. ago Rapist who killed visiting nurse, spurred safety changes, sentenced to 50 years in prison

A convicted rapist who killed a Connecticut visiting nurse at a halfway house has been sentenced to 50 years in prison after pleading guilty to murder

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