The Lahore High Court has ordered the government to revamp prison industries and provide inmates with basic skills to aid their rehabilitation and reintegration into society. The court stressed the alignment of educational curricula in prisons with public and private institutions to enhance inmates’ job opportunities after release. In response to a public interest petition … Read more
A Madrid court sentenced former International Monetary Fund director Rodrigo Rato to nearly five years in prison, after convicting him on corruption charges, the court announced on Friday. Rato, who has denied any wrongdoing throughout the nine-year investigation, said in a statement sent to Reuters via law firm Baker McKenzie that the ruling was “unfair” … Read more
Two Somali pirates sentenced to 30 years in prison for kidnapping American journalist Michael Scott Moore and held him hostage for 977 days, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. Moore, a freelance journalist, traveled to Somalia in 2012 to study piracy and the country’s economy. On January 21, he was kidnapped by several heavily armed men and … Read more
FORT WORTH — Joe Exotic, who rose to fame in the Netflix series “Tiger King” and is currently serving time in federal prison, says he is engaged to a fellow Texan and hopes to get married. Exotic, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado, is currently incarcerated at the Federal Medical Center in Fort Worth. He … Read more
A Moscow court on Monday sentenced Alexander Rodnyansky, a two-time Oscar nominee for “Leviathan” and “Loveless,” to prison in absentia for 8.5 years, with the producer accusing Russian authorities of trying to “sow more fear” among the film’s critics. Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine. “Dozens of Russia’s best writers and musicians were sentenced for this … Read more