6 h. ago Sean Kingston sentenced to three and a half years over $1m wire fraud scheme

Beautiful Girls singer and his mother were convicted in March of accruing luxury items through falsified paymentsSean Kingston has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison by a Florida court for a $1m wire fraud scheme, according to NBC South Florida.The 35-year-old singer, born Kisean Anderson, was found guilty in a South Florida court in March alongside his mother, Janice Turner, for accruing about $1m worth of luxury items through falsified payments that never cleared. Turner was sentenced in July to five years in prison with three years of probation. Continue reading...

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8 h. ago Sean Kingston sentenced to 3.5 years in prison after $1million fraud scheme

Beautiful Girls singer Sean Kingston and his mother, Janice Eleanor Turner, were convicted of a conspiracy to commit wire fraud and four counts of wire fraud in March

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9 h. ago Murderer Bryan Kohberger whines that he is being taunted by other inmates while being held in Idaho prison

The 30-year-old was sentenced to life in prison for the 2022 slayings of four University of Idaho students

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14 h. ago Babysitter who provided young girls to her boyfriend for sexual assault sentenced to 100 years in prison

Brittney Lyon provided her boyfriend Samuel Cabrera girls as young as three to drug, bind and abuse in exchange for going on dates, prosecutors say

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21 h. ago Man, 66, stole more than £50,000 from his parents and went on luxury holidays

Brett Conway is now starting a prison sentence

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33 h. ago Ronan Keating calls for stronger fatal car crash sentences and voices his 'disappointment over broken system' after man who caused death of his brother avoids prison

The singer, 48, voiced his 'disappointment over Ireland's broken system' after a man escaped a prison sentence for causing Ciaran's death.

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43 h. ago DWP crackdown on benefit fraud as woman jailed for wrongly claiming £110,000

The UK Government has issued a stern warning that benefit fraud will be detected and prosecuted to the full extent of the law, following the sentencing of a Manchester woman to 20 months in prison

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50 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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52 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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52 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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58 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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3 d. 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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3 d. 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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3 d. 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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3 d. 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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4 d. 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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4 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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5 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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5 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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5 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.

Economics