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Jul 27, 2007 5:43 PM CDT

Ex-Qwest CEO Gets 6 Years

Nacchio's insider-trading penalty includes paying $71M

(Newser) - Qwest's former CEO was sentenced to 6 years in prison today for engaging in insider trading while the company's stock plummeted. Joseph Nacchio committed "crimes of overarching greed,'' a federal judge in Denver said as he fined him $19 million in addition to the $52 million he must...

FBI Pays Out
$101M in
Mob Suit

Jul 26, 2007 4:54 PM CDT

FBI Pays Out $101M in Mob Suit

Record award for four men wrongfully sent to prison for 1965 murder

(Newser) - A federal judge ordered the government to pay $101.7M after the FBI withheld evidence related to a 1965 murder in Boston that sent four men to prison for three decades. "This case is about intentional misconduct, suborning of perjury" and "the framing of innocent men," said...

Wronged Ex-Cons:
Why Some
Get Payday,
Some Don't

Jul 26, 2007 4:25 AM CDT

Wronged Ex-Cons: Why Some Get Payday, Some Don't

(Newser) - How much is a year of jail time worth if you're falsely convicted? The potential awards vary widely, the American Prospect reports. Some states fix rates, with exonerated Wisconsinites claiming $5,000 per year in the clink while those from Alabama get $50,000. Twenty-two states have no laws guaranteeing...

Send Cons Home to Do Time, Says Paris Sheriff

Jul 12, 2007 5:07 AM CDT

Send Cons Home to Do Time, Says Paris Sheriff

Give 2,000 inmates the Hilton treatment, Lee Baca urges

(Newser) - The sheriff who put Paris Hilton on mansion arrest is now championing a bill that would curb the overcrowding in California jails by sending thousands of other Los Angeles County inmates home to carry out their sentences. Some 2,000 low-level offenders would be tracked via ankle monitoring devices under...

Sarkozy Dumps Bastille Day Pardons

Jul 8, 2007 2:17 PM CDT

Sarkozy Dumps Bastille Day Pardons

Revolutionary tradition ends with new law-and-order prez

(Newser) - They won't be celebrating Bastille Day in French prisons this year: Nicolas Sarkozy, the country's new law-and-order president, has declined to grant the traditional mass pardons, as his two predecessors did every year. The pardons—3,500 last year alone—have been used as a means of easing overcrowded French...

Why Bush Let Scooter Skate

Jul 3, 2007 5:58 AM CDT

Why Bush Let Scooter Skate

President, 'liberated' by his unpopularity, acted unilaterally

(Newser) - President Bush's dwindling popularity played a major role in his decision to commute the prison sentence for Scooter Libby, according to the Times. The ostracized president had little left to lose by saving Libby from prison and, in the words of one Republican observer, knew he was "going to...

HealthSouth Boss Gets
7 Years for Bribery

Jun 29, 2007 4:15 AM CDT

HealthSouth Boss Gets 7 Years for Bribery

Same stretch for Alabama governor

(Newser) - Richard Scrushy, the former CEO of HealthSouth, was sentenced to almost 7 years in prison for giving the governor of Alabama $500,000 in exchange for a seat on the state hospital regulatory board, the Wall Street Journal reports. Former governor Don Siegelman was sentenced to over 7 years, and...

No Last Laugh for Killer

Jun 27, 2007 4:53 AM CDT

No Last Laugh for Killer

Con drops the jokes and tells witnesses instead: 'I deserve this'

(Newser) - Condemned killer Patrick Knight backed off on his boast that he'd tell a joke before execution, even after receiving over 1300 suggestions for one-liners through mail and a web site. Knight was executed late yesterday for murdering a married couple who lived in the trailer next to his just outside...

Hamas Releases Audio of
Israeli Soldier

Jun 25, 2007 9:49 AM CDT

Hamas Releases Audio of Israeli Soldier

A year after capture, Cpl. Gilad Shalit says his health is failing

(Newser) - In the first proof that he is alive a year after capture, Hamas militants today released an audio recording of Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier seized in a cross-border raid near the Gaza strip. In the message posted on the group's web site, Shalit said a year in prison is...

White House Splits Over
Closing Gitmo

Jun 22, 2007 5:03 AM CDT

White House Splits Over Closing Gitmo

Legal puzzles stump Bush aides as shutdown gains momentum

(Newser) - President Bush is under mounting pressure to shut the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, but top aides remain deeply divided over the fate of 375 detainees there. Bush has said he wants to the close the prison, but WaPo reports senior officials including Dick Cheney are opposed to shipping detainees...

CIA Helped Devise Torture Tactics

Jun 21, 2007 6:25 PM CDT

CIA Helped Devise Torture Tactics

Agency believed to have teamed up with Pentagon

(Newser) - The CIA apparently colluded with the US military to develop torture techniques for interrogating terrorist suspects, Salon reports. The program was based on methods originally designed to teach American special forces how to withstand abuse if captured. While the military's role in this "reverse engineering" had been previously exposed,...

Judge Orders Libby to Prison

Jun 14, 2007 3:42 PM CDT

Judge Orders Libby to Prison

Defense likely to appeal trial court's ruling

(Newser) - Scooter Libby may not remain free pending appeal, the judge in his perjury trial ruled today, and must begin serving his 30-month sentence this summer. His defense team will turn next to a federal appeals court, the Washington Post reports, but the most pressing legal question now is whether President...

Paris Was Right:
It's Not Fair!

Jun 14, 2007 12:53 PM CDT

Paris Was Right: It's Not Fair!

Numbers show heiress's stint in jail will be longer than 80% of similar offenders

(Newser) - Paris Hilton wasn't just being a spoiled brat when she cried injustice on being hauled back to jail earlier this week. The weepy celebutante is in fact doing more hard time than most people guilty of crimes like hers, the LA Times reports after analyzing 1,500 similar cases in...

Paris' Slammer Grub Beats Its Bum Rap

Jun 14, 2007 8:15 AM CDT

Paris' Slammer Grub Beats Its Bum Rap

It ain't the Hilton, but even California prison food has standards

(Newser) - Cuisine at the LA County Jail may not be fit for an heiress, but meals in the California's penitentiary system are surprisingly appetizing, the Chronicle reports. Paris Hilton has reportedly been turning up her nose at provisions in the poke, although state regulations require chow to be tasty, varied and...

Teen Sex Case Takes a Turn

Jun 11, 2007 6:10 PM CDT

Teen Sex Case Takes a Turn

Judge throws out 'cruel and unusual' 10-year sentence; AG plans to appeal

(Newser) - A judge ordered a 21-year-old Georgia man freed from prison today, ruling that his 10-year sentence for aggravated child molestation—receiving consensual oral sex from a 15-year-old when he was 17—was "cruel and unusual" and that keeping him incarcerated would be a "miscarriage of justice." The...

Weeping
Heiress Sent Back to Cell

Jun 8, 2007 4:15 PM CDT

Weeping Heiress Sent Back to Cell

'It's not fair!' Paris calls to mom as peeved judge orders lockup

(Newser) - Paris Hilton is back in lockup after a courtroom scene worthy of a daytime soap, with the 26-year-old celebutante led from the room weeping and wailing, "Mom, Mom! It's not right!" Judge Michael Sauer, miffed that the scofflaw heiress had been sprung after just 3 days of a...

Rights Groups Pressure US

Jun 8, 2007 9:36 AM CDT

Rights Groups Pressure US

Report urges release of info on "disappeared" terror suspects

(Newser) - Six prominent human rights groups want the US to disclose the whereabouts of 39 terrorism suspects, or "ghost prisoners," believed to have been in government custody. The organizations released a report today charging that children as young as 7 have been detained, invoking the loaded term "disappeared,...

Judge Fumes
as Paris Goes From Big House to Big House

Jun 8, 2007 7:35 AM CDT

Judge Fumes as Paris Goes From Big House to Big House

Sheriff ignores order not to spring socialite

(Newser) - A livid judge ordered Paris Hilton to appear in court today, prompting speculation that the heiress may be headed back behind bars after a night of beauty rest at her Hollywood Hills mansion. Prosecutors charged that the sheriff who released her for mysterious "medical" reasons after just three days...

Still Crazy After All These Years

Jun 6, 2007 9:46 PM CDT

Still Crazy After All These Years

A new documentary catches up with the twisted romance of Burt and Linda Pugach

(Newser) - Burt and Linda Pugach are having their third 15 minutes. The first was in 1959, when Burt hired a thug to throw lye in Linda's face after she broke up with him. The second, in 1974, was when, Linda, now blind, agreed to marry Burt, just released from jail. And...

Prison Hasn't Mellowed
Dr. Death

Jun 4, 2007 6:02 AM CDT

Prison Hasn't Mellowed Dr. Death

Kevorkian's outraged at meager progress on assisted suicides

(Newser) - Jack Kevorkian, who was paroled Friday after 8 years in prison, says he won't be involved in any more suicides—except perhaps his own. "When I’m going to do it, I’m going to do it right,” he tells the New York Times. But prison hasn't blunted...