8 h. ago Former New York state prison guard sentenced to up to life in prison in inmate's death

A former New York state prison guard convicted of murder for his role in the brutal beating of an inmate that was captured on body-camera footage has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison

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8 h. ago Sex traffic victim hero Virginia Giuffre stood up to elites over Jeffrey Epstein hell

Late billionaire sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein denied his numerous victims, including Virginia Giuffre, any justice after he was found dead in a New York city prison cell in 2019

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10 h. ago Twisted Jeffrey Epstein timeline from pervert teaching to final days in jail

Billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his New York prison cell in 2019 as he awaited trial for multiple sex trafficking charges, including abusing girls as young as 14

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11 h. ago ‘A lot of these scary blokes doing time are terrified little boys’: Dennis Kelly on writing a new kind of prison drama

The new project from the creator of Pulling and Utopia is the real-life tale of a teacher whose life is upended by working with inmates. ‘It upends your prejudices,’ he saysWriter Dennis Kelly has a few mantras he’s always lived by. They’re all there, clearly defined in his very earliest interviews, right from the start of his career. Write like you mean it (perhaps that’s why his plays have so much heart and drive). Never write for money and never compromise (maybe that’s why two of the best TV shows he had a hand in, the controversial conspiracy drama Utopia and the Sharon Horgan comedy Pulling, were cancelled after two series). And finally: make sure your writing always contains a secret.In the case of Matilda, the smash-hit stage adaptation he wrote alongside Tim Minchin, Kelly only figured out the secret hidden inside his writing long after the awards came flooding in. It turns out that Matilda, a show that glows with love but also aches with a sense of a loss, was al...

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7 d. ago Last man captured after New Orleans jailbreak handed down hefty sentence

Ten inmates had made their escape in May by crawling through a hole behind a jail toilet

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1 week ago Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine gets 3 months in prison for violating probation in gang case

Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine has been sentenced to three more months in prison for violating his supervised release terms in a New York gang case

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2 w. ago The Old Guard and Supergirl actor Matthias Schoenaerts sentenced to six months in prison

The actor has faced more than 10 convictions on driving-related offences in Belgium

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2 w. ago Paul Doyle's life in jail after Liverpool crash from 'protection to inmate fury'

Paul Doyle changed his plea to guilty on all 31 charges after driving into a crowd of Liverpool fans in the city centre and causing injuries to more than 100 people in the process

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3 w. ago Prison inmate sues for 'right to eat Vegemite' after being handed life sentence

Andre McKechnie, a convicted murder, is suing the Australian state of Victoria over his right to eat Vegemite and '"enjoy his culture as an Australian' in a controversial case

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3 w. ago Four guards sentenced in beating death of handcuffed Black man at New York prison

Brooks had been serving a 12-year sentence for first-degree assault

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4 w. ago 4 guards sentenced in brutal beating death of an incarcerated Black man at New York prison

Four prison guards involved in the death of an incarcerated Black man whose brutal beating at an upstate New York prison last year was captured on bodycam videos were each Friday to prison

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