El Salvador – much like most of South America – is renowned for letting its inmates do whatever they like, as long as it’s not escape.
None of us are daft to think that Pollsmoor is a pleasant place to call home, but sometimes it helps to be reminded what awaits on the other side of the law.
Here’s proof that it’s not always the babysitter who is to blame – and this is one father who is ready to admit his son’s faults.
Oscar Pistorius’ time in prison has no doubt been a trial for the double amputee, but through his high profile and various complaints, his life is being made a little more comfy.
NUTS ON A PLANE! The sequel to that awful snakes movie… Here is a case of someone actually going nuts because of some nuts.
We sometimes do stupid things in life. This may lead us into some sticky situations…most of which we can probably handle. Sometimes however, you do something really, really retarded…
Former Fidentia big wig, J Arthur Brown faced the Supreme Court of Appeal last month, and his sentence is in. Find out what the verdict is here.
Three guys have been charged with attempted murder for viciously attacking a cleaner after a Tiger Tiger fuelled night out. Check it out.
It seems that shooting someone without knowing if it is an intruder or not, is becoming acceptable in South Africa.
The trial of Oscar Pistorius has finally come to an end, and with news of Oscar getting a 5-year prison sentence emerging, but what exactly does that mean?
19-year-old Robert Burt really does know how to make a statement – wearing a mugshot shirt of himself to his processing at the Somerset County Police Station.
Three Hells Angels affiliates have pulled off a daring prison break using a stolen helicopter, and they’re still on the run. We see a movie deal in the works…
News about Justin Bieber’s run-in with the law spread around the web like wildfire, and some of these celebrity reactions will have you in stitches.
Good ‘ol Bernie Madoff. The former non-executive Chairman of the NASDAQ , stockbroker and financier who admitted to operating in a Ponzi scheme considered to be the largest financial fraud in US history, agreed to an interview with the Wall Street Journal while incarcerated.
Every now and then Mike Tyson drops little nuggets of gold in our laps. Take this video for example. Mike visited The Arsenio Hall Show this week, and instead of chatting about fashion and award shows like other celebrities, Mike talked about partying and having sex in jail.
A British grandmother is wasting away on death row in Bali for smuggling cocaine. Housed at Kerobokan jail, which is nicknamed ‘Hotel K’, 57-year-old Lindsay Sandiford is awaiting her death. Lindsay was sentenced in January of this year for smuggling £1,5 million (R23,702,674) worth of cocaine into Bali.
J Arthur Brown, the dodgy dodgster from Fidentia, who originally had 192 charges laid against him, has been found guilty of two counts of fraud. Just wait ’til you see his sentence..
A group of scientists in South Korea has developed the world’s first completely autonomous prison guard. Far from being a glorified Roomba, the robo-guard was “designed to study human behavior, the robot is able to detect abnormal prisoner activity and report back to its controllers.” Click through for the video.
After a ridiculous amount of time at liberty, George Zimmerman – the guy who shot Trayvon Martin for wearing a hoodie – has been taken into custody and charged with second-degree murder. Due to some oddment of Florida law, a charge of first-degree murder was ruled out. If convicted, Zimmerman faces life in prison.
Radio presenter Gareth Cliff was arrested last night after caught driving at 182km/h. He did not spend the night in jail, and is scheduled to appear in court today. Cliff had an interview on his own radio show this morning – hear it after the jump!
In a discovery that seems more at home in the script of a B-grade crime drama series, it was alleged that drug lords in Miami’s Federal Detention Center were receiving visits from pole-dancers.
An inmate at a Michigan jail says he’s being subjected to cruel and unusual punishment because he has been banned from having porn.