AUSTIN, Texas—A convicted murderer who was released early from a Texas prison in 1993 and now faces two new murder charges offered Thursday to enter a plea and return to prison for 50 years in exchange for avoiding going to trial and facing a possible death sentence—an offer that victims’ families urged prosecutors to reject. […]
If the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down the Department of Justice’s controversial use of an evidence-tampering law to prosecute Jan. 6 protesters, federal prosecutors indicate they would likely seek longer jail time on other charges to make up the difference. In a March 19 court filing in the case of Anthony Robert Williams, 48, of […]
Former President Donald Trump’s trade adviser Peter Navarro, who was found guilty in September of contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena from the House Jan. 6 Committee, begins to serve his prison sentence in Miami on March 19.
The Supreme Court’s chief justice on March 18 rejected former Trump White House aide Peter Navarro’s emergency petition to delay his prison sentence. The decision came a day before Mr. Navarro was to report to federal prison to serve his four-month sentence for defying a congressional subpoena. In issuing the order, Supreme Court Chief Justice […]
BERLIN—An American man was convicted of murder and other charges on Monday for brutally attacking two American women near Germany’s famed Neuschwanstein castle last summer and pushing them into a ravine, fatally injuring one of them. He was sentenced to life in prison. The Kempten state court also convicted the 31-year-old of attempted murder and […]
MUSKEGON, Mich.—A Michigan man who pleaded guilty in his disabled brother’s starvation death was sentenced Monday to a minimum of 30 years in prison by a judge who said the defendant is “one step away from becoming a psychopath.” Paul Ferguson, 21, pleaded guilty in December to first-degree child abuse in the death of 15-year-old […]
A Brooklyn man is at risk of an 18-year prison sentence for possessing “ghost guns” created as part of his machining hobby. NTD interviewed his attorney, Vinoo Varghese, who is actively seeking to dismiss the case.
MILWAUKEE—A drunken driver who sped through a red light in Wisconsin and smashed into another vehicle, killing five of her passengers including four children, was sentenced Monday to 25 years in prison. Anteyona Sandifer, 21, pleaded guilty in January to five homicide charges related to the deaths in Milwaukee last May. Prosecutors dropped six other […]
ROCHESTER, N.Y.—A man convicted for a 2015 killing in western New York has been freed and his indictment has been dismissed solely because he was held at the wrong prison according to an interstate law on detainees, a state judge has ruled. Terrence Lewis was released earlier this month from a maximum-security prison in Seneca […]
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y.—A medical biller has been sentenced to 12 years in federal prison after being convicted in a massive insurance fraud scheme that involved posing as an NBA player and other patients to harangue the companies for payments that weren’t actually due, prosecutors said. U.S. District Judge Joanna Seybert called Matthew James’ actions “inexcusable” […]
BLYTHE, Calif.—Eight corrections officers and an incarcerated man were injured in a riot involving around 200 inmates in the recreational yard of a Southern California prison, authorities said Thursday. The violence erupted around 10 a.m. Wednesday as officers were escorting an inmate across the yard as part of a contraband investigation at Ironwood State Prison […]
In this episode of America’s Hope, Jon Ponder shares his inspiring and powerful story of triumph. From a life of crime and punishment to one of hope and promise. See how one man’s life is changing the world.
PEKIN, Ill.—Four young people have been sentenced to decades in prison for their roles as teenagers in an Illinois girl’s murder-for-hire plot that killed her mother and critically wounded her father. Prosecutors said during Tuesday’s hearing that Dahlia Bolin, then 15, initially sought out the three others to kill her father because she was having […]
Senate Committee on the Judiciary holds hearings to examine five years of the First Step Act. The First Step Act was the criminal justice reform law signed by former President Donald Trump. It is intended to do two things: cut unnecessarily long federal sentences and improve conditions in federal prisons. The hearings will be held […]
NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with businessman and Conservative peer Lord Michael Farmer. Lord Farmer talks about the difficulties of championing family in the world of politics, the damage liberalism has inflicted on society in the age of the internet, and the importance of faith.
SAO PEDRO DE ALCANTARA, Brazil—Waddling around the perimeter of a prison in Brazil’s southern state of Santa Catarina, geese have edged out their canine predecessors on patrols to make sure inmates do not escape. Between breaks in their on-site pond, the honking birds, dubbed “geese agents,” patrol a green space between the prison’s inside fence […]
HOT SPRINGS, Ark.—A jury has convicted a man accused of firing a gun into a crowd following a high school graduation ceremony in Arkansas, killing one and injuring four others. At the end of the five-day trial in Garland County Circuit Court, the six-man, six-woman panel deliberated for less than an hour Friday before convicting […]
CONCORD, N.H.—A 27-year-old man who was living in a tent in the woods in New Hampshire was sentenced Friday to up to life in prison in the fatal shooting deaths of a retired couple who had gone out for a walk. He asserted his innocence in court. Superior Court Judge John Kissinger Jr. called Logan […]
Staying on the persecution of Falun Gong, among thousands of documented cases from all over China, a recent report shows that one prison is single-handedly responsible for the deaths of at least 63 Falun Gong practitioners. Liaoning Women’s Prison is located in a northeastern Chinese suburb. It’s known as one of the largest and most […]
