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June 20, 2013
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  • 31/05/2013 | Argentina

    Prosecutor requests 8-years prison sentence for Menem

    Prosecutor Marcelo Agüero Vera today requested an eight-year prison sentence for senator and former president Carlos Menem, accused of illegally selling arms to Croatia and Ecuador during his administration in the 90s.

  • 13/06/2013 | Argentina

    Carlos Menem sentenced to 7 years in prison for arms trafficking

    Senator and former president Carlos Menem was sentenced today to seven years in prison for smuggling weapons to Croatia and Ecuador.

  • 12/10/2012 | Argentina

    Quebracho leader, three group members sentenced to prison

    The National Criminal Cassation Court sentenced Fernando Esteche, leader of the extreme left-wing Quebracho organization accused of arson, to three years and eight months in prison.

  • 18/12/2012 | Argentina

    Santillán's former stepdad found guilty, gets life in prison

    Adalberto Cuello was found guilty of the murder of his former 9-year-old step-son Tomás Dameno Santillán, who was killed in the town of Lincoln in November 2011. He was sentenced to life in prison.

  • 27/12/2012 | Argentina

    Former economy minister sentenced to 4 years in jail

    Former Economy Minister Felisa Miceli was sentenced to 4 years in prison after being found guilty of hiding and destroying evidence after a bag full of cash was found in her office in 2007; an incident which ended with her resigning from office.

  • 05/07/2012 | Argentina

    Oyarbide calls off Schoklender’s hearing

    Federal Judge Norberto Oyarbide called off today the scheduled hearing in which Sergio Schoklender was to give further evidence, due to transportation issues from Ezeiza prison, where the former financial manager for the Madres de Plaza de Mayo is currently held.

  • 01/08/2012 | Argentina

    Schiavi: 'I'm not afraid of going to prison'

    Former Transportation Secretary Juan Pablo Schiavi assured that “he is not afraid of going to prison” and denied having any responsibility in the hiring of the company responsible for monitoring the SUBE card system and for causing the Once railway tragedy that left 51 dead and more than 700 injured.

  • 21/08/2012 | Argentina

    Phony doctor Giselle Rímolo sentenced to 9 years in prison

    A court sentenced phony doctor Giselle Rímolo to nine years in prison on the charges of ‘traffic of health-threatening substances, causing a death,” dozens of frauds and illegal practice of medicine.

  • 29/03/2012 | Argentina

    'Ephedrine king' sentenced to 9 years in prison

    Mario Segovia, also known as the “ephedrine king,” was sentenced to nine years in prison accused of smuggling to Mexico almost 300 kilos of ephedrine in 12 tons of sugar to elaborate illegal synthetic drugs.

  • 04/04/2012 | Argentina

    Boxer Jorge 'La Hiena' Barrios sentenced to four years in prison

    Boxer Jorge “La Hiena” Barrios was sentenced to four years in prison, as the three judges found him guilty of causing a car accident in which a pregnant woman died in January 2010.

  • 14/06/2012 | Argentina

    Taddei case: Eduardo Vázquez sentenced to 18 years in prison

    Former Callejeros drummer Eduardo Vázquez was sentenced to 18 years in prison as he was found guilty of murdering wife Wanda Taddei by setting her on fire. According to the jury, Vázquez was under temporary insanity when he attacked his wife and thus the sentence was reduced to 18 years

  • 11/11/2011 | Argentina

    D'Elía handed four day suspended prison sentence over assault on rural worker

    Picket leader Luis D’Elía received a suspended prison sentence of four days as a result of assaulting rural supporter Alejandro Gahan in March 26th, 2008, amid the Government’s conflict with rural sectors over a hike on grain export taxes

  • 11/11/2011 | Argentina

    Belsunce case: court denies release requests

    San Isidro’s Criminal court rejected the release requests presented by the lawyers of Sergio Binello, Guillermo Bártoli, Horacio García Belsunce, Juan Ramón Gauvry Gordon and Juan Carlos Hurtig, all convicted on charges of covering up María Marta García Belsunce’s murder.

  • 15/11/2011 | Argentina

    Riot controlled in La Plata prison

    Criminal Policies subsecretary for Buenos Aires province, César Albarrincín sustained this afternoon that the riots reported last night in the Melchot Romero prison had been controlled and that everything had returned to normal. The official assured “no-one was hurt” in the process.

  • 26/01/2011 | Argentina

    Police arrest Barreda after courts revoke house arrest sentence

    Ricardo Barreda was arrested at his home in the Belgrano neighbourhood of Buenos Aires City after authorities had issued a warrant for his arrest. Barreda had violated his house arrest sentence with an outing that police deemed "unjustified."

  • 08/09/2011 | Argentina

    Schlenker brothers found guilty of murder, sentenced to life in prison

    Former River Plate hooligans, brothers Alan and William Schlenker, were sentenced to life in prison this afternoon along with three other men after being found guilty of murdering football fan Gonzalo Acro. The victim was killed by two shots to the head in Villa Urquiza in 2007.

  • 10/11/2011 | Argentina

    Belsunce case: convicted to be taken to regular prison

    The three family members and doctor convicted for the covering up of María Marta García Belsunce’s murder will be taken to the Greater Buenos Aires area of Campana prison, where widower Carlos Carrascosa is purging his life imprisonment sentence as the author of the crime. A court denied a release request.

  • 02/05/2013 | World

    US seeks North Korean amnesty for American jailed for 15 years

    North Korea sentenced an American citizen to 15 years of hard labor for crimes against the state, prompting a US call for his amnesty in hopes of avoiding him becoming a bargaining chip between the two countries.

  • 29/12/2012 | World

    Spaniard convicted in Cuban dissident death returns home

    A Spanish political activist who was convicted in the death of prominent Cuban dissident Oswaldo Paya in a car crash in Cuba in July arrived in Spain to serve out his four-year prison sentence, media reports said.

  • 21/03/2013 | World

    Pope Francis to give Maundy Thursday Mass at minors' prison

    As he used to do while he was still the Archbishop of BA City and ratifying his social commitment that tries to whitewash the Catholic Church’s scandals, Pope Francis will celebrate the Maundy Thursday mass at a minors’ prison in Rome.

  • 05/04/2013 | World

    UN human rights top official calls for closure of Guantánamo prison

    The United Nations' top human rights official called on US authorities today to close down the Guantanamo prison camp, saying the indefinite imprisonment of many detainees without charge or trial violated international law.

  • 04/05/2012 | World

    Jailed US contractor in Cuba pleads for brief release

    A US contractor imprisoned in Cuba praised Raúl Castro's economic reforms but called the Cuban government's treatment of him "shameful" in his first media interview since he was jailed more than two years ago.

  • 10/10/2012 | World

    One Pussy Riot member freed on appeal by Russian court

    A member of punk band Pussy Riot was freed on appeal today but a Moscow court upheld prison sentences for two others imposed over a raucous cathedral protest against Vladimir Putin, who said they had got the jail terms they deserved.

  • 27/12/2012 | World

    Egypt's Mubarak moved to army hospital on health concerns

    Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian strongman ousted last year after 30 years in power, was moved to an army hospital from a prison hospital today following a fall that raised fresh concerns about his fragile health.

  • 07/12/2011 | World

    Former Illinois governor sentenced to 14 years

    Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for political corruption including attempting to sell the US Senate seat vacated by then President-elect Barack Obama.

  • 21/02/2012 | World

    Strauss-Kahn held in French prostitution probe

    Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was questioned by police today over his dealings with an alleged prostitution ring that was run from the northern French city of Lille and organized sex parties in Paris, Brussels and Washington.

  • 05/04/2012 | World

    Russian arms dealer sentenced to 25 years in prison

    Viktor Bout, a Russian arms dealer caught in an undercover sting by US agents posing as Colombian guerrillas seeking weapons, was sentenced to 25 years in prison by a US judge in New York.

  • 01/01/2011 | World

    Rioting prisoners set fire to British jail

    Rioting prisoners torched buildings at a low-security British jail, an incident the prison guards' union said highlighted the risks of government plans to slash spending on the justice system.

  • 03/10/2011 | World

    Italian appeal court clears Amanda Knox of murder

    An Italian court cleared 24-year-old US citizen Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend of murdering British student Meredith Kercher in 2007 and ordered them to be set free after nearly four years in prison for a crime they always denied committing.

  • 20/10/2011 | World

    Madoff says feels safer in prison than in NY

    Imprisoned financial scam artist Bernard Madoff boasted in a jailhouse letter that he is "quite the celebrity" and treated "like a Mafia don," ABC News said.

  • 24/09/2012 | Latin America

    Americas court tells Peru to scrap rule that could help Fujimori

    The Inter-American Court of Human Rights told Peru to annul a ruling by its Supreme Court that could have paved the way for an early release of jailed former President Alberto Fujimori.

  • 27/01/2013 | Latin America

    Venezuela prison riot kills 61, government silent

    A prison riot in southwestern Venezuela killed 61 people, a hospital official said, although the government has refused to give an official death toll in the bloody standoff that highlighted chaos in the country's jails.

  • 20/08/2012 | Latin America

    Well-armed Venezuela prisoners riot again, killing 25

    Well-armed inmates in one of Venezuela's notoriously overcrowded prisons rioted over the weekend, killing 25 people, the government said.

  • 21/08/2012 | Latin America

    Former Cuban officials get prison terms for corruption

    Three former vice ministers in Cuba's Basic Industry Ministry and nine nickel industry executives have been sentenced to long prison terms for corruption, Cuban state media said.

  • 17/09/2012 | Latin America

    More than 30 escape from Mexican prison on US border

    More than 30 inmates have escaped from a prison in northern Mexico on the border with the United States, authorities in the state of Coahuila said.

  • 29/03/2012 | Latin America

    Thirteen killed in Honduras prison fight

    At least 13 people were killed in a prison fight in northern Honduras, spotlighting the country's dysfunctional prison system just weeks after a fire in a different jail killed more than 300 inmates.

  • 02/04/2012 | Latin America

    Colombian rebels free 10 captives held more than a decade

    Colombia's FARC rebels freed 10 members of the armed forces held hostage in jungle prison camps for more than a decade, the last of a group of captives the drug-funded guerrilla group has held as bargaining chips to pressure the government.

  • 16/04/2012 | Latin America

    Over 120 hostages at Brazilian state prison

    Around 400 inmates maintain over 120 hostages in a state prison at northeast Brazil for 20 hours now. Most of the hostages are relatives of the inmates and include many women and children as well as prison guards.

  • 09/02/2012 | Latin America

    Noriega leaves Panama hospital, returns to prison

    Panamanian authorities discharged former dictator Manuel Noriega from a public hospital  and returned him to prison, five days after he fainted from high blood pressure and was rushed to intensive care.

  • 20/02/2012 | Latin America

    Zetas plotted with Mexican prison guards in escape

    Members of the Zetas drug cartel plotted with prison guards to orchestrate an elaborate escape and kill 44 of their rivals in one of the worst episodes of prison violence in Mexico, the local state governor said.

  • 21/02/2012 | Latin America

    Investigators say prison fire likely caused by cigarette

    A devastating prison fire that killed 360 inmates in a Honduran penitentiary was likely caused by a candle or cigarette that set a mattress alight, investigators said.

  • 09/10/2012 | Sports

    Penn State's Sandusky gets 30-60 years prison for child abuse

    Former Pennsylvania State University football coach Jerry Sandusky was ordered to spend at least 30 years in prison for sexually abusing at-risk boys for more than a decade, a sentence likely to keep him behind bars until he dies.

  • 17/12/2012 | Entertainment

    Florida man sentenced to 10 years in 'hackerazzi' case

    A Florida man who pleaded guilty to hacking into the email accounts of celebrities to gain access to nude photos and private information was sentenced to 10 years in prison by a federal judge in Los Angeles today.

  • 21/12/2011 | Entertainment

    Michael Douglas' son handed more prison time

    The son of Oscar-winning actor Michael Douglas was sentenced to an additional 4 and a half years in prison for taking drugs while jailed on separate offenses of possessing and dealing narcotics.

  • 11/04/2012 | Entertainment

    Mass murderer Manson denied parole again in California

    Mass murderer Charles Manson, one of America's most notorious convicts, was denied parole on Wednesday in his 12th and possibly final bid for release from a California prison, state corrections officials said.

  • 24/07/2012 | Entertainment

    Murderer of singer Hudson's family gets life in prison

    An Illinois judge today handed down a life prison sentence to the man convicted of the 2008 murder of three members of the family of Grammy- and Oscar-winning singer and actress Jennifer Hudson.


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