Prison

A Rwandan genocide memorial. Credit: Pierre-Yves Beaudouin / Wikimedia Commons After serving decades in prison, Rwandans convicted of crimes of genocide returned to their communities, articulating a "narrative of redemption," saying they were good people, despite their past crimes. And they were hopeful about their prospects for reintegrating into…

Samsung Electronics executive chairman Lee Jae-yong will not have to put his prison uniform back on—for now, at least.Samsung Shows Off First LaserSlim OLED TVThe Seoul Central District Court on Monday found Lee not guilty of committing stock manipulation and accounting fraud during a 2015 merger of two Samsung affiliates: Samsung C&T, a construction company, and Cheil, an amusement park and clothing company. Lee is the son of former Samsung chairman Lee Kun-hee. He’s been leading the Samsung group since his father…

A statewide warning was issued to every California prison after roughly 200 prisoners were involved in an attack on officers at Ironwood State Prison in Blythe on Wednesday, officials said. Eight staff members and one prisoner were briefly hospitalized and treated for undisclosed injuries in the incident, prompting the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to conduct a threat assessment at all its prisons.The incident occurred Wednesday morning while members of CDCR’s Investigative Services Unit were…

Gary Bowser, a hacker who was sentenced to 40 months in jail for his involvement with a Nintendo piracy group, has said his punishment is a “warning” to others. Bowser was charged in 2021 for his involvement with hacker group Team-Xecuter, who created devices allowing users to play pirated copies of games on the Nintendo Switch and 3DS. He was sentenced to 40 months in jail and also plead guilt in a civil suit filed by Nintendo. Between the two cases, Bowser was ordered to pay back £11.45million even though he claimed he…

As of today, the UK is criminalising actions such as cyberflashing and — in a world fist — epilepsy-trolling, with offenders potentially facing prison time. The new offences will come into play as part of the Online Safety Act, a recently introduced bill designed to protect people from illegal or “harmful” online content. Cyberflashing is the act of sending unwanted sexual photos. Studies have shown that about half of younger women (aged between 18 and 25) have received unsolicited nude…

Photo: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP (Getty Images)A single man is responsible for leaking the tax information belonging to Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and others. Trump’s tax information was leaked to the New York Times and became the basis for a big story, while Bezos and Musk had their financial information handed over to ProPublica, which similarly reported on the documents. Is Threads a Threat to Twitter? | Future TechThe “Deep Throat” behind the leaks is Charles Littlejohn, 38, who formerly worked as a contractor…

As he exited the federal courthouse elevator on the way to his sentencing hearing, Jose Huizar was relaxed enough to joke with his lawyers. The ex-Los Angeles city councilmember would soon find out how much prison time he would serve after pleading guilty last year to racketeering and tax evasion.Walking down the hall in black glasses and a blue suit and toting a brown satchel, he spotted me. I’ve written columns trashing him for not only disgracing his position but for embarrassing Latinos. He could have scowled,…

From Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis and Nelson Mandela’s Conversations With Myself to Genet’s Our Lady of the Flowers, some of the best writing in the world has emerged from prison. Even Plato, although not imprisoned himself, wrote on the trial and death of Socrates. The works of Mandelstam, Pasternak, and Solzhenitsyn were written during the repressive Stalinist era. The prison universe then resembles a genuine archipelago spanning continents and existing beyond the constraints of time and place. Jawaharlal Nehru…

When an imprisoned gang member used a contraband cellphone to ask Miguel Maciel Jr. if he wanted to make some money, the 18-year-old jumped at the offer.“Of course,” Maciel told the prisoner, Carlos Guadalupe Reyes, according to WhatsApp messages shown in court. “I’m always interested in money.”The messages made clear, according to prosecutors, that Maciel was signing up for an entry-level position that offered a lot of work for little pay. In one example, his cut for delivering $900 worth of drugs and picking up the…

Snoop Dogg’s private, self-branded Doggyland casino resides in an unmarked building in Inglewood, and on a mid-January on Monday, its paisley print blackjack table and Indoggo branded bar were commandeered by Buffalo, N.Y., rapper Benny the Butcher for a video shoot.With cameras rolling, Snoop and Benny cackled in drunken laughter at the center of the scene, while rapping along to their forthcoming collaboration. To their left sat Hit-Boy, the song’s producer, while Big Hit — Hit-Boy’s father — served as a human money…