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White House spokesman Jay Carney says he doesn't know whether the president has seen the letter penned by a U.S. government contractor jailed in Cuba, in which he expressed fear that the United States had "abandoned" him.
American contractor Alan Gross, in a letter to President Obama, is asking for help to win his release from a Cuban prison He is serving a 15-year prison sentence for "crimes against Cuba."
A grand jury has indicted a school superintendent, two football coaches and a principal for their actions following the 2012 rape of a 16-year-old girl in Steubenville, Ohio. Ohio's attorney general says the accused were more concerned about protecting the school's institutions than the victim. Dean Reynolds reports.
CBS News legal analyst Rikki Klieman talks to the "CBS This Morning" co-hosts about the possibility of a release from prison for Michael Skakel. He served more than 11 years for the 1975 murder of Martha Moxley.
In the aftermath of Attica's bloody inmate riot, Morley Safer reports on conditions in America's prisons and goes inside Colorado State Penitentiary, a maximum security prison.
Luke Denman and Airan Berry admitted to taking part in the operation orchestrated by a third ex-U.S. soldier, Venezuelan's chief prosecutor said.
Guyger has requested to be either acquitted of murder or receive a lesser charge of criminally negligent homicide because "she had the right to act in deadly force."
Levandowski accused of wanting to "be seen as the singular inventor of the self-driving car, the way Alexander Graham Bell is credited with inventing the telephone."
The Tucson Whetstone Unit houses 1,066 inmates, of which 517 have tested positive for COVID-19.
It also resulted in the escape of hundreds of inmates in Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan.
Violence, understaffing, and a deteriorating infrastructure have plagued the prison system.
A Manhattan federal judge ordered his release, finding that the government's decision to return Cohen to jail from home confinement was retaliatory.
A Manhattan federal judge found that returning Cohen from home confinement to jail "is retaliatory."
After a multi-year investigation, the department discovered the use of excessive force by correctional officers at 12 of the 13 facilities evaluated.
"Petitioner was remanded to FCI Otisville because of his defiant behavior during his meeting at the Probation Office on July 9, 2020," the government said.
Claims he was brought back to prison to keep him from finishing book criticizing Trump.
Ramsey BethAnn Bearse must register as a sex offender for life.
The GOP political operative was supposed to report to prison next week to serve a 40-month sentence.
Cohen had been furloughed in May over concerns about the coronavirus pandemic within the federal prison system.
Michael Cohen, President Trump's former personal attorney, has been taken back into federal custody after authorities said he refused to agree to the terms of his home confinement. Cohen had been furloughed from prison in May over concerns about the coronavirus pandemic.
Mohamed Amashah, a dual Egyptian-American citizen was arrested in 2019 after holding a sign in Cairo's Tahrir Square that read: "Freedom for all the political prisoners."
With WNBA star Maya Moore's help, Jonathan Irons, now 40, has been released from prison after being jailed since he was 16 years old. His conviction was overturned in March.
Stone had sought to delay his sentencing until September 3, saying on Facebook on Sunday that he is seeking "to delay the death sentence ordering me to a COVID-19 infested prison."
A hip-hop producer is helping inmates release a mixtape from behind bars. David Jassy was granted clemency and recently released from California's San Quentin State Prison, but not before creating a music program for inmates.
A man who was arrested nearly a decade ago for planning to bomb New York City subways was sentenced to 10 years in prison, time already served. He will soon be released into the witness protection system.
"We have a framework for a TikTok deal," Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said after talks with Chinese officials in Spain.
Vance has described his longtime friendship with Kirk, who was also a key ally in his political rise.
As Trump urges Israel to be "very careful" after a strike in U.S.-allied Qatar, Netanyahu calls Rubio's visit "a clear message that America stands with Israel."
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The suspect in the assassination of Charlie Kirk is under special watch in a Utah jail, days after he allegedly shot and killed the 31-year-old conservative activist.
A range of companies and other organizations are sanctioning — and sometimes firing — workers over their public comments about Charlie Kirk. They have little recourse.
The device had been lit but "failed to function as designed," a Unified Fire Authority Investigations officer wrote in affidavits of probable cause.
Rep. Michael McCaul, a foreign policy leader who had strongly supported Ukraine, warned Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin is "testing the resolve of NATO."
Brian Kilmeade made the comment while talking about the stabbing murder of Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, North Carolina.