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A judge has sentenced a Texas man accused of threatening to assassinate President Donald Trump to 18 months in prison, prosecutors said.

Widespread testing across four U.S. state prison systems revealed a slew of coronavirus cases but found that the vast majority of inmates who tested positive for the virus–96 percent–remained asymptomatic.

While New York City, New York remains under lockdown orders from Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) due to the Chinese coronavirus crisis, major violent crime continues to soar.

Former Rep. Corinne Brown (D-FL), the ex-lawmaker serving a five-year prison sentence for crimes involving fraud and corruption, was released from federal prison on Wednesday over coronavirus-related concerns.

Poland’s national-conservative government, which recently made masks compulsory in public places to slow the spread of the Chinese coronavirus, has had prisoners produce one million in a month.

An inmate freed from a Florida prison on March 19 due to the Chinese coronavirus crisis allegedly committed murder the following day.

The overcrowded French prison system has released nearly 8,000 detainees in just one month to combat the spread of coronavirus.

The prison riots in Italy have resulted in at least eight deaths, beatings of guards, prison escapes, and fires being set to the penitentiaries.

New York state announced Monday that it is using prison labor to produce its own hand sanitizer product in an effort to contain the spread of the deadly coronavirus. 

A woman was convicted of capital murder Thursday after she stabbed and decapitated her 5-year-old daughter in January 2017 in Kyle, Texas. 

A former teacher was sentenced to prison Tuesday after she had sex with students and provided drugs to one of them in Pontiac, Michigan. 

The French Justice Minister has announced that there will be nearly 300 convicted terrorists released from French prisons by 2023. 

Sanders said Saturday evening that the United States was worse than Communist China in regards to the number of people in jail.

A career criminal is thanking New York Democrats for their passage of a bail reform law that has set him free the day after his 139th arrest.

House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff kicked off the third day of impeachment hearings on Thursday, trying to create a moment of levity by floating the possibility of lawmakers being put in prison.

Iowa has faced ferocious criticism from progressive activists over the racial disparity in the state’s prison population. The state has adopted “implicit bias” training as a means of combating this issue.

A former nurse who allegedly murdered dozens of children plead guilty Thursday in San Antonio, Texas, for murdering a baby boy in 1981 and was sentenced to life in prison. 

Two inmates wearing fake suicide belts attacked and wounded a guard at a maximum-security prison in England, police said Friday. Detectives are treating the incident as a terrorist attack.

The owner of an Ohio business who committed $8.5 million in food stamp fraud was sentenced to 14 months in prison on Wednesday.

LONDON (AP) – Three people injured in the London Bridge attack have been sent home after receiving medical treatment as more details emerged on the stabbings.

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage laid down the law to representatives of other political parties in a Sunday election debate, slamming “liberal elite” weakness and demanding serious action against radical Islamic terrorists.

LONDON (AP) – Three of the five people who were killed or wounded in the London stabbing attack were former Cambridge University students or staff members who had gathered for an event designed to connect graduate students with prisoners to study criminology, police and the university said Sunday.

Details are emerging on London Bridge killer Usman Khan, a convicted terrorist who was freed from prison on an electronic tag and apparently attending a prisoner rehabilitation event when he struck, killing two.

Prison guards in the state of Florida, under Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) leadership, will begin identifying criminal illegal aliens in custody to help combat illegal immigration.

Two amateur treasure hunters in the United Kingdom were sentenced to prison Friday after illegally selling Viking relics they found in 2015.

Louisiana Democrat Gov. John Bel Edwards — running for reelection November 16 — has released more than 1,900 convicted criminals from prison since 2017, and more than 14 percent immediately returned to a life of crime.

Close to 500 convicts in prison across the state of Oklahoma were released in the largest single-day jailbreak in United States history.

A convicted illegal alien child rapist is now on the run after the Georgia Department of Corrections accidentally released him from prison.

A notorious leader of the “Almighty Latin Kings” gang, now accused of murder, instantly returned to a life of drugs and violence after being released from federal prison by the “First Step Act.”

A former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employee was sentenced Friday to 32 months in prison for tax evasion.

A notorious leader of the “Almighty Latin Kings” gang has been arrested for murdering a man less than a year after being freed from federal prison by the “First Step Act.” 

Desperate Housewives star Felicity Huffman was snapped wearing a green jumpsuit during family visitation hours on Saturday, as she serves her short prison sentence for her role in the college admissions scandal.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) benefited financially from the existence of private prisons despite vowing to ban them on the grounds that they are “profiteering off cruelty,” a report from the Washington Free Beacon revealed.

Registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was allowed 90 visits with one of his underage rape victims during his 2008 incarceration in Palm Beach, Florida, reports said. 

Labour’s London mayor Sadiq Khan has launched a pilot programme which would see women who have committed “lower-level, non-violent offences”, such as thieves and shoplifters, avoid jail in favour of receiving mental health and substance abuse support.

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) unveiled a sweeping criminal justice reform plan Monday and dedicated a significant portion of it to the legalization of marijuana, promising to facilitate government loans to “socially and economically disadvantaged individuals” in the marijuana industry.