French journalists face jail for exposing govt lies about Yemen war
French journalists are being threatened with jail time for reporting on leaked documents revealing the country’s complicity in the Saudi-led war in Yemen after they...
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Chelsea Manning released after 2 months’ detention, might be back in jail in 6 days
Whistleblower Chelsea Manning has been released from a Virginia prison where she spent the last 62 days for...
Chelsea Manning to stay in jail after federal court rejects appeal
A federal appeals court has struck down whistleblower Chelsea Manning’s bid to be released from jail, where she...
Cash bail system drives mass incarceration of the poor – lawsuit against Detroit
Detroit’s bail system disproportionately harms poor defendants and violates their constitutional rights, according to a lawsuit filed by the ACLU in that city, where a...
NZ: Hand in your semi-automatics or 5 years’ jail
People with military-style semi-automatic (MSSA) weapons and assault rifles have until the end of September to hand them...
NYC jail officials to move young inmates to controversial Rikers Island facility
NYC corrections officials plan to move over 1,000 young inmates to a single Rikers Island facility. Despite Rikers'...
PA mother of seven dies while serving two-day jail term for kids’ truancy violations
State officials want to know how and why a Pennsylvania woman died while serving a two-day jail term related to her children’s truancy. Eileen Dinino,...
State Dept. contractor to go to jail under Espionage Act for tipping off journalist
A former contractor for the United States government will plead guilty to leaking secret information to a Fox...
Massachusetts man goes to jail for automated Google+ invite to ex-girlfriend
Sending an ex-girlfriend an email invitation to join Google+ despite an active restraining order landed a Beverly, Massachusetts...
Stratfor hacker Jeremy Hammond sentenced to ten years in jail
Internet activist Jeremy Hammond who pleaded guilty to hacking servers of the private intelligence company Statfor and leaking...
Border patrol agents go to jail after forcing drug smugglers to eat pot
Two U.S. Border Patrol agents who forced four suspected drug traffickers to eat marijuana and run aimlessly into the Arizona desert have each been sentenced...
For the First Time Ever, a Prosecutor Will Go to Jail for Wrongfully Convicting an Innocent Man
By Mark Godsey Today in Texas, former prosecutor and judge Ken Anderson pled guilty to intentionally failing to...
Man Dies In Jail Cell After Misdemeanor Pot Offense
By Radley Balko Today's story is part drug war, part police indifference and callousness, part police cover-up. It...
Man locked up in jail for one month despite having video evidence of innocence
A Pennsylvania security guard spent a month in jail for a crime he didn’t commit after local police ignored evidence proving he was innocent. The...
Exonerated Black Panther dies hours after serving 41 years in jail
Herman Wallace’s 41 years in solitary confinement came to an end last week when a federal judge overturned...
Former Qwest CEO says refusal to comply with NSA spying landed him in jail
Former Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio, who spent over four years in prison for insider trading, now says his...
Yahoo CEO Mayer: we faced jail if we revealed NSA surveillance secrets
By Dominic Rushe Marissa Mayer, the CEO of Yahoo, and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook struck back on Wednesday at critics who have charged tech companies...