Actor Wesley Snipes was ordered Wednesday to voluntarily surrender at a federal prison in Pennsylvania next week to start his three-year sentence for failing to pay taxes. The U.S. Marshal’s Office ordered Snipes to report to the Federal Correctional Institution McKean in Lewis Run, Pa. by noon on Dec. 9. Snipes had tried unsuccessfully to [...]
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Wesley Snipes the day has come
Posted: 1st December 2010 by Sus Scrofa in Crime, EntertainmentTags: Appellate Court, Blade Trilogy, Daniel Meachum, e mail, Elderly Clients, Federal Correctional Institution, Federal Correctional Institution Mckean, Federal Jury, Federal Prison, Financial Adviser, jurors, Jury Selection, Kenneth Starr, Last September, Ocala, Ocala Fla, Old Star, prison, prison sentence, sentence, September In New York, source article, tax evasion, Wesley Snipes, Willful Failure
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48 Virginia Inmates held in Perpetual Isolation for Refusing to Cut their Hair
Posted: 30th June 2010 by Sus Scrofa in Crime, Politics, ReligionTags: haircut, inmates, prison, rastafarian
Nearly 50 Virginia prisoners are being held in perpetual isolation because they refuse to cut their hair, several for religious reasons. The Associated Press reported in May that 10 Rastafarian inmates had been in segregation for more than 10 years for refusing to comply with the state’s grooming policy, which calls for hair to be [...]
Murderer Joran van der Sloot Chooses an Isolated Cell as he Fears for his Life in Peru Prison
Posted: 19th June 2010 by Sus Scrofa in CrimeTags: Celebrity, cell, inmate, isolation, Joran Van Der Sloot, prison
A prison compound on the dusty outskirts of Peru’s capital is home to hundreds of convicts from Peru’s leftist insurgency of the 1980s and 90s. It holds more than 80 foreign inmates, mostly Colombians and Mexicans there for drug-related crimes. And then there is Joran van der Sloot. The 22-year-old Dutch murder suspect in the [...]
‘Lil Wayne’ Goes to Jail for 1 Year
Posted: 11th February 2010 by Sus Scrofa in Crime, EntertainmentTags: best rapper alive, Dwayne Carter, jail, lil wayne, prison, prison sentence, rapper
Florida Man Exonerated After 35 Yrs Behind Bars
Posted: 17th December 2009 by Sus Scrofa in Happy NewsTags: exonerated, Florida, prison
James Bain made his first-ever cell phone call Thursday, dialing his elderly mother to tell her he had been freed after 35 years behind bars for a crime he did not commit.
‘Vampire’ Jailed for Threatening to Impale, Dismember and Decapitate a Judge and His Family
Posted: 17th December 2009 by Sus Scrofa in Crime, Oddly EnoughTags: judge, kill, prison, threaten, torture, vampire
Prosecutors say it’s a case they’ve never seen before, involving a self-proclaimed vampire who made threats of violence. A 45-year-old Indianapolis man will spend more than two years in jail for threatening to torture and kill a judge. He told prosecutors he’s exempt from traditional laws. Instead, he follows vampire law.
Oklahoma to Build a “Christian Only” Prison
Posted: 4th November 2009 by Sus Scrofa in ReligionTags: Bible, Christian, oklahoma, prison
This tiny town near the Oklahoma-Kansas state line north of Enid may soon own the country’s only all-Christian prison, with Christian administrators, employees, counselors and programs.
Buddhist Prisoner Believes Cat is his Dead Mother – Inmate Demands Feline Visitation Rights
Posted: 3rd November 2009 by Sus Scrofa in Oddly EnoughTags: buddhist, cat, inmate, prison
A bank robber put the cat amongst the prison yard pigeons by demanding visitation rights for a pet moggie – who he claimed was the reincarnation of his dead mother!
Man Prefers Prison to House Arrest with Wife
Posted: 26th October 2009 by Veritas in CrimeTags: arrest, prison, wife
A Sicilian builder transferred from prison to house arrest tried to get himself locked up again to escape arguments with his wife at home, Italian media reported Thursday.
Bernie Madoff Sentenced to 150 Yrs. in Prison
Posted: 29th June 2009 by Sus Scrofa in Crime, Economy | FinanceTags: Bernie Madoff, fraud, jail sentence, Madoff, Ponzi scheme, prison, thief
Dressed in a dark suit, Madoff, who admitted in March to running a $65bn (£40bn) Ponzi scheme for the past three decades, will serve 150 years, Denny Chin, a US District Judge, told a packed courtroom in New York. Judge Chin said that the ‘symbolism’ of the sentence is important. Madoff, who kept his eyes [...]