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Los Angeles (AFP) - A white supremacist who was sprung from custody in a hospital shoot-out that left three prison staff wounded was back in jail Thursday after a huge manhunt in the US state of Idaho. Detectives say the escapee and his accomplice were arrested after a brief police chase and were being connected to two homicides that appear to have occurred since the violent jailbreak early Wednesday. Police had warned the public not to approach Skylar Meade -- a member of the violent Aryan Knights gang -- or Nicholas Umphenour, with both men considered armed and dangerous. The drama erupted w...
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Washington (AFP) - The US Supreme Court Monday agreed to hear the case of an Oklahoma man convicted of murder, whose story has sparked appeals for clemency from Pope Francis and Hollywood stars. Richard Glossip, 60, had been scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection on May 18, but the nation's highest court put his execution on hold. The stay came after the Oklahoma attorney general, a Republican, asked the court, in an unusual move, to halt the execution, citing questions about the fairness of his trial. Following the Supreme Court's Monday announcement that it would hear Glossip's app...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Tens of thousands of books are banned from US prisons, a new report said Wednesday, including a primer on drawing, a book about tying knots and textbooks teaching inmates foreign languages. Prison authorities across the country cite vague "security" fears or worries over sexual content for their bans, which prevent some of America's 1.2 million inmates from reading often innocuous-sounding texts sent by friends, campaigners, publishers or bookstores. A study by PEN America, a literacy and free expression advocacy group, found widely differing and often inconsistently enforc...
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Barcelona (AFP) - A Spanish court has closed a probe into the death of software mogul John McAfee at a prison near Barcelona in 2021, ruling he committed suicide, court documents showed Friday. The 75-year-old founder of the popular anti-virus McAfee was found dead in his cell back in June 23, 2021. Just hours earlier, a Spanish court had authorised his extradition to the United States on tax evasion charges. Although an autopsy determined he had died by suicide, his widow demanded further checks and another autopsy, arguing that McAfee was not suicidal. But in a ruling dated July 24 that was ...
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Washington (AFP) - Does Donald Trump truly weigh 215 pounds, as stated by authorities after his arrest on racketeering and conspiracy charges in Georgia? Many Americans are not buying it. Trump, who posed for a mug shot during the booking process in Atlanta on Thursday, was reportedly allowed to provide his own statistics to the Fulton County Jail. It listed the height of inmate number "PO1135809" as six foot three inches (1.9 meters), his weight as 215 pounds (97 kilograms) and his hair color as either "Blond or Strawberry." The response was skeptical. "If Donald Trump is 215 lbs, like he sai...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Leslie Van Houten, a disciple of notorious serial killer Charles Manson, was released from prison Tuesday after more than five decades, California prison authorities said. Van Houten, now 73, had been behind bars for her role in an infamous double murder in Los Angeles in 1969. That crime was among at least nine shocking and grisly murders committed by members of the Manson cult in the city that summer, striking dread into people all over southern California. In the decades since, the state's governors repeatedly blocked all efforts to free her, before Gavin Newsom last wee...
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Houston (AFP) - On the afternoon of July 4, as Americans were celebrating the country's independence with elaborate fireworks displays, a prisoner named Joseph Martire passed out in his cell in Texas, amid the excessive heat that has been swamping much of the southern United States in recent days. In concrete, brick and metal penitentiaries, industrial fans churn warm vapor without really cooling the air. And with no air conditioning in most prisons, when outside temperatures exceed 40ºC (104 Fahrenheit), it can feel even hotter inside the cells. Some prisoners sabotage the toilets in their ...
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Washington (AFP) - A US woman known as the "suitcase killer" pleaded guilty Friday to conspiracy to murder her mother, whose body was hidden in a piece of luggage after she was slain in Bali in 2014, the Department of Justice said. Heather Mack, 27, was arrested in 2021 upon her return to the United States after spending seven years in prison in Indonesia for the killing. She faces an additional 28 years in prison in the United States when she is sentenced in December. In 2015, then-teenager Mack and her boyfriend Tommy Schaefer were convicted in Indonesia of hatching a plan to kill her moth...
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Washington (AFP) - Ted Kaczynski, known as the "Unabomber," who terrorized Americans from 1978 to 1995 with his sporadic, anonymous bombing campaign, died in prison Saturday, US authorities said. Kaczynski, 81, whose attacks killed three people and injured two dozen, was found unresponsive at 00:25 am (0425 GMT) at a federal prison medical center in Butner, North Carolina, said the Federal Bureau of Prisons. He was taken to the hospital, where he was officially pronounced dead later in the morning. The reclusive Harvard-educated mathematician, whose targets ranged from academics to random civi...
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Washington (AFP) - Ted Kaczynski, known as the "Unabomber," who terrorized Americans from 1978 to 1995 with his sporadic, anonymous bombing campaign, has died in prison, US authorities said. Kaczynski, 81, whose attacks killed three people and injured two dozen, died at the federal prison medical center in Butner, North Carolina, said the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The reclusive Harvard-educated mathematician, whose targets ranged from academics to random civilians, had a self-professed goal of halting the advance of modern technology and society, mounting his campaign of violence from a shack...
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