SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A state parole board member resigned Monday after recommending the release of a man who a day later attacked a pregnant Chicago woman with a knife and fatally stabbed her 11-year-old son while he tried to protect her, according to authorities. The Illinois Prisoner Review Board’s handling of the case prompted … Read more
The Biden administration won a major legal victory Friday in its effort to reduce illegal immigration at the southern border, when a federal judge in Texas ruled the government may continue a program that accepts 360,000 migrants a year from Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua and Haiti. U.S. District Judge Drew Tipton, who has ruled against other … Read more
BANGKOK — Thailand’s former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who last year returned from more than a decade of self-imposed exile to serve a prison sentence for misdeeds committed while in office, has been granted parole and could be released this weekend, the country’s justice minister announced Tuesday. Parole for Thaksin would be a symbol of … Read more
Josef Fritzl, 88, held his daughter captive for 24 years before his arrest in 2008 ROBERT JAEGER/AFP via Getty Josef Fritzl Josef Fritzl was convicted of imprisoning his daughter for 24 years and fathering seven children with her Fritzl was sentenced to life in prison in Austria and has been held in a special unit … Read more
Gypsy Rose Blanchard is banned from having any contact with the former flame she enlisted to kill her mom … at least not while she remains on parole. According to new legal docs, obtained by TMZ, Gypsy’s parole conditions bar her from talking to Nick Godejohn, the ex-boyfriend who was convicted of murdering her mother, … Read more
PRETORIA, South Africa — South African athlete Oscar Pistorius has been released from prison on parole and is now at home, South Africa’s Department of Corrections said Friday. The department gave no more details of Pistorius’ release. The announcement came at around 8:30 a.m., indicating corrections officials had released the world-famous double-amputee Olympic runner from … Read more
Gypsy Rose Blanchard has been ordered by police to leave the state of Missouri immediately. According to TMZ, Blanchard was told by her parole officer that she and her family had to get out of Missouri. There’s no official word on the decision for her exit, but local law enforcement officials spoke to the state corrections … Read more
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Oscar Pistorius will soon be out of prison. The 37-year-old former Olympic runner was sentenced to 13 years and five months in 2017 for the murder of his then-29-year-old girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp when he fired a gun four times through the bathroom door of his house in February 2013. Keep reading to find out more… … Read more
PRETORIA, South Africa — Double-amputee Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius was granted parole Friday, 10 years after shooting his girlfriend through a toilet door at his home in South Africa in a killing that jolted the world. He will be released from prison on Jan. 5, but will be constantly monitored by parole officials for five … Read more