Prisons & Prisoners

CIA Torture Memo: Harsh Interrogation Legal If It's In "Good Faith"

huffingtonpost.com     8 hrs ago   121 related          

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department in 2002 told the CIA that its interrogators would be safe from prosecution for violations of anti-torture laws if they believed "in good faith" that harsh techniques used to break prisoners'...                

One 'Spam King' Faces 4 Years In Prison, One Escapes

crime-research.org     9 hrs ago   46 related          

Source: crn.com By: Stefanie Hoffman, Seattle man Tuesday was sentenced to 47 months in prison for spamming while a Colorado man is on the run after escaping from a federal prison camp. Robert Alan Soloway, also known as the...                

Man Gets 4 Years for ID Theft, Software Piracy

washingtonpost.com     3 hrs ago   30 related          

A 23-year-old Oregon man was sentenced this week to four years in federal prison for using computer viruses to steal financial data from dozens of consumers. Investigators say the man used the information to set up multiple...                

Prosecutor: Escaped convict 'Spam King', wife, daughter slain

bostonherald.com     2 hrs ago   47 related          

By Associated Press Friday, July 25, 2008 - A convicted spammer fatally shot his wife and young daughter in an apparent murder-suicide Thursday while being sought after escaping prison last weekend, authorities said. A teenage...                

Karadzic follows New Age diet in prison

upi.com     1 hr ago   1,883 related          

BELGRADE, Serbia, July 25 (UPI) -- Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb leader who became a New Age healer while living in hiding, is keeping to a strict diet in prison. Karadzic's family said that he is eating only hazelnuts and...                

"Spam King" Found Dead With Wife, Daughter

cbsnews.com     7 hrs ago   31 related          

Convicted Spammer Escaped Prison, Apparently Killed Wife, Daughter And Self (AP) A convicted spammer who escaped from prison, his wife and 3-year-old daughter were found slain outside a farm house Thursday east of Denver in an...                

Tech writer dances on spammer's grave after murder-suicide

shakespearessister.blogspot.com     4 hrs ago   14 related          

Having escaped from a Colorado prison on Sunday, Edward Davidson was found dead after what appears to be a murder-suicide. Davidson apparently killed his wife and 3-year-old daughter before killing himself. Davidson had been...                

Former Tulane back sentenced to 10 years in prison

sportsline.com     2 hrs ago   17 related          

NEW ORLEANS -- A former Tulane University football player convicted of attempted manslaughter for his role in a brawl outside a Bourbon Street nightclub was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison. Criminal Judge Arthur Hunter...                

A Closer Look at the Hamdan Trial

alternet.org     59 mins ago   1 related          

As the military commission trial of Salim Hamdan continues, justice and logic remain in short supply. Jeremy Brecher, Brendan Smith On June 12, when the Supreme Court ruled, in Boumediene v. Bush, that the prisoners at...                

Man sentenced to 3 years in prison for bicyclists death

thenorthwestern.com     7 hrs ago   4 related          

By Jennifer K. Woldt • of The Northwestern • July 25, 2008 It took Robert D. Johnson a split second to make the decision to drive home after spending the night drinking at a tavern. As a result of that decision, Johnson fatally...                

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