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Michael Avenatti, the disgraced lawyer who became a media darling after targeting former President Donald Trump, was sentenced on Monday to 14 years in prison for stealing millions of dollars from his clients and trying to obstruct the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from collecting millions in unpaid payroll taxes.

The number of inmates in French prisons has reached a record high as crime continues to surge.

During an interview with NBC News released on Friday, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) defended his goal of halving the state’s prison population and argued that “eventually, we should be looking to lower it as much as possible” by “making

A Georgia inmate is accused of stealing millions of dollars from a billionaire Hollywood producer to purchase gold coins and a $4.4 million home in Atlanta.

The man who shot Ahmaud Arbery received a sentence Monday in Brunswick, Georgia, of life in prison on charges of committing a federal hate crime.

Male prisoners who identify as “transgender” are to be no longer incarcerated with women, a minister is set to promise.

Hunter Biden reportedly did not register as a foreign agent while making business deals overseas, according to the New York Post.

A man identifying as a woman who impregnated two women while behind bars at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in Clinton, New Jersey, has been moved to another location.

A survey has revealed that over seven in ten French people want foreign criminals to serve their sentences in their countries of origin after being convicted of crimes in France. The polling showed that a total of 72 per cent

The Feds are hastening the process to get a convicted male bank robber with ties to a neo-Nazi group “gender-reassignment” surgery.

The upper house of the national legislature in Japan passed a bill Monday that would punish people convicted of making online insults with up to one year in prison and fines of up to $2,231, Kyodo News reported.

The Spanish Interior Ministry has warned prison guards and other prison officials to take extreme caution over threats to their safety from Jihadi inmates after threats made in a radical Islamic magazine. the Interior Ministry warned prison employees to take

El Salvador’s Legislative Assembly approved on Tuesday a law to expedite the construction of new prisons, El Salvador’s La Prensa Gráfica newspaper reported, noting the legislation aims to help accommodate some of the 13,573 alleged gang members arrested by police in the country over the past month as part of an unprecedented crime crackdown.

Courts across the Malaysian states of Sabah, Sarawak, and the national capital city of Kuala Lumpur have used an Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) system to determine and assign sentences in criminal cases since February 2020, with the pilot program set to end by April 2022, the digital news platform Mashable Southeast Asia reported on Wednesday.

El Salvador’s government declared a month-long state of emergency on Sunday in response to a recent spike in murders nationwide, the Venezuelan news website Runrun.es reported.

Former police officer Kim Potter has been sentenced to two years in prison for manslaughter over the death of Daunte Wright, who tried to flee a traffic stop.

An inmate accused of murdering a convicted child predator inside a Michigan prison after the man’s sentencing has admitted his guilt in the killing.

A quarter of Canadians support putting unvaccinated people in jail, and two-thirds say they would support mandatory vaccinations.

Convicted radical Islamic terrorist Abderrahman Bouanane, who committed the first Islamist attack in Finland, is again in court.

A transgender paedophile who identifies as a 5-year-old girl has attended court dressed as an elf following a breach of his sexual harm order.

A young Australian woman has claimed in a video interview that she was forcibly detained for two weeks in a Covid internment camp, despite not having the virus.

Nearly 400 escaped prisoners remain at large in Nigeria on Monday after unidentified gunmen stormed the Abolongo Prison in southwestern Nigeria’s Oyo state on Friday, killing two guards and releasing 837 inmates, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.

Fights between rival gangs linked to Mexico’s two top drug cartels broke out in Ecuador’s Litoral penitentiary in the city of Guayaquil between Tuesday and Thursday, killing at least 116 inmates, five of whom were beheaded.

A man from Louisiana was sentenced to 15 years in prison once he admitted having sex with a teenage girl whose room he hid in, authorities announced.

The so-called squad member Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), while stumping for ‘squad’ hopeful Nina Turner in Ohio this past weekend, where she called for the abolishment of the carceral system.

A man in Port Orange, Florida, has been sentenced to two years in prison for not telling his sexual partners he was infected with HIV.

President Joe Biden delivered remarks Wednesday on the administration’s strategy to prevent gun crimes across the country when he said there is “a range of programs” he believes is needed to keep Americans from pulling the trigger.

Seven out of ten French people would like to see migrant criminals who committed crimes in France be deported back to their home countries to serve out their sentences.

The Missouri man who sucker-punched a 12-year-old boy dancing on a sidewalk has been sentenced to seven years in prison.

Google announced on Thursday that it is launching a “Grow with Google Career Readiness for Reentry” program designed to offer job readiness and digital skill training for former prisoners.

President Joe Biden Department of Justice (DOJ) is weighing in on a lawsuit a male inmate who considers himself a transgender woman filed, blaming Georgia prison officials for allowing other men in the prison to sexually assault him.

Russian prison officials said Monday that dissident Alexei Navalny has been moved to a prison hospital to receive “vitamin therapy” for his ailing health. Navalny’s physician, Yaroslav Ashikhmin, said his patient could “die at any moment.”

Inmates inside a prison in Panama are using cats and other animals to smuggle small packages of drugs into the facility. The animals are conditioned to enter the prison expecting to be fed.

An Illinois man who thought he was providing phones to help the Islamic State commit attacks was sentenced Friday to 13 and a half years in prison.

The L.A. Times reports several inmates are thought to have applied “under false pretenses” and some female prisoners are afraid.

Social media giant Facebook is reportedly building an app for people who are re-entering society following time in prison as part of an effort within the company to create more products for “marginalized communities.”