Latest Prisons News

Congolese journalist convicted of spreading false information expected to be freed soon

Mar. 18, 2024 21:11 PM EDT

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Congolese journalist Stanis Bujakera was set to be freed soon after a court found him guilty and sentenced him Monday to six months in prison for spreading false information among other charges, according to media freedom group Reporters Without Borders. He was...

A woman is arrested in fatal crash at San Francisco bus stop that killed 3 people

Mar. 18, 2024 19:56 PM EDT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A 78-year-old woman was arrested in connection to a fatal crash at a bus stop in San Francisco that killed two adults and a child and injured an infant who remains hospitalized, police said Monday. Mary Fong Lau, of San Francisco, was booked into jail on...

Philadelphia man won't be retried in shooting that sent him to prison for 12 years at 17

Mar. 18, 2024 14:47 PM EDT

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia man won't be retried in a 2011 shooting that injured four people, including a 6-year-old girl, and sent him to prison for more than a decade at age 17, a prosecutor announced Monday. A judge closed the case against C.J. Rice, now 30, months after...

Hunger soars and aid dwindles as gangs in Haiti suffocate the country

Mar. 16, 2024 15:30 PM EDT

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A crowd of about 100 people tried to shove through a metal gate in Haiti’s capital as a guard with a baton pushed them back, threatening to hit them. Undeterred, children and adults alike, some of them carrying babies, kept elbowing each other trying to enter. ...

With Navalny dead, his allies keep fighting to undermine Putin's grip on power

Mar. 16, 2024 01:58 AM EDT

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Alexei Navalny’s team is used to working independently. The most potent foe of Russian President Vladimir Putin was frequently absent for long stretches after being arrested, assaulted, poisoned, or imprisoned. But when Navalny died suddenly in February at...

Hong Kong jails 12 people over the storming of the legislature in 2019 protests

Mar. 16, 2024 01:03 AM EDT

HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong court sentenced 12 people Saturday to prison over the storming of the city’s legislative council building at the height of the anti-government protests in 2019. Hundreds of protesters swarmed into the legislature the night of July 1, 2019 — the...

Judge will appoint special master to oversee California federal women's prison after rampant abuse

Mar. 16, 2024 00:19 AM EDT

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A special master will be appointed to oversee a troubled federal women’s prison in California known for rampant sexual abuse against inmates, a judge ordered Friday, marking the first time the federal Bureau of Prisons has been subject to such oversight. A...

Judge appoints special master to oversee California federal women's prison following rampant sexual abuse of inmates

Mar. 15, 2024 19:17 PM EDT
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Judge appoints special master to oversee California federal women's prison following rampant sexual abuse of inmates.

Judge mulls third contempt case against Arizona for failing to improve prison health care

Mar. 15, 2024 19:01 PM EDT

PHOENIX (AP) — A judge presiding over a nearly 12-year-old lawsuit challenging the quality of health care in Arizona’s prisons is considering whether to launch a third contempt-of-court proceeding against the state for failing to improve prisoner care. Arizona’s system for...

Trump White House official Peter Navarro asks Supreme Court to stave off contempt sentence

Mar. 15, 2024 18:15 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump White House official Peter Navarro appealed to the Supreme Court Friday to allow him to stay out of prison as he appeals his contempt of Congress conviction. Navarro is due to report to a federal prison next week, after an appeals court ruled that his...