TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan said Wednesday that China ordered Taiwan’s coast guard against interfering in the detention of a Taiwanese fishing boat in what is seen as an increasing Chinese attempt to encroach on Taiwanese territory. Taiwan’s coast guard also repeated its call for the release of the boat and its crew members who […]
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A United Nations human rights working group on Monday called for the immediate release of Pakistan’s imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan, saying he had been detained “arbitrarily in violation of international laws.” The Geneva-based United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention made this demand after examining Khan’s case in which he […]
A former Marion County Sheriff’s Office detention deputy charged in the death of her former boyfriend, who at the time of his death was a detention deputy at the sheriff’s office, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and armed residential burglary on Friday. Jacqueline Jasmin Johnson-Cabrera was sentenced by a judge in Citrus County to life […]
One week after she began serving home detention, former Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby is seeking permission to travel for a paid speaking gig in New Orleans that will help advance her consulting company, her lawyer wrote in a new court filing. The federal probation office opposes the request because its policies prohibit travel during […]
The Newton County Sheriff’s Office released the identity of the detention officer who was arrested for an alleged inappropriate relationship with an inmate. On April 26, the NCSO Office of Professional Standards and Criminal Investigations Division received a report that Akina Martin was involved in an inappropriate relationship with an inmate resident. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV […]
BALTIMORE — One week after she began serving home detention, former Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby is seeking permission to travel for a paid speaking gig in New Orleans that will help advance her consulting company, her lawyer wrote in a new court filing. The federal probation office opposes the request because its policies prohibit […]
A Newton County detention officer has been arrested after allegations of a relationship with an inmate. Newton County sheriff addressed the incident on Facebook on Wednesday. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] NCSO said the officer was arrested and charged following an alleged inappropriate relationship with an inmate resident. The sheriff […]
Jun. 26—A 15-year-old boy who escaped Friday from District One Juvenile Detention Center in Dalton Gardens, Idaho, was arrested Tuesday in Post Falls, according to the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office. Sheriff’s Office detectives were conducting follow-up investigations at about 12:20 p.m. Tuesday regarding the alleged escapee, Caden J. Schreibeis, the sheriff’s office said in a […]
Five youth development specialists at a Brooklyn juvenile detention center were charged on Wednesday with smuggling weapons, drugs and other contraband in exchange for bribes, officials said. By sneaking in and distributing the dangerous contraband into the Crossroads Juvenile Center in Brownsville, the city employees violated their sworn duty and destabilized the detention center while […]
Erlin Centeno’s family has feared being permanently separated since the father of three children was detained four months ago following a routine check-in with immigration authorities in New York City. The lives of Centeno and his family were endangered after four of his cousins were killed and he started receiving many letters and text messages […]
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The prominent Belarusian human rights group Viasna on Tuesday denounced an extension to the detention of a Roman Catholic priest who was jailed after displaying the Ukrainian flag in a social media post. Andrzej Jukhniewicz was arrested in early May and charged with conducting an unauthorized picket for displaying the flag. […]
NICE, France (AP) — A pro-independence leader in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia was transferred to a prison facility in mainland France to await trial on charges relating to two weeks of unrest in May that left nine people dead, the public prosecutor in the territory said Sunday. Christian Tein, an Indigenous Kanak […]