Anthony Weiner’s first lunch in the big house consisted of pizza, spaghetti and a garden salad, TMZ reported, but for Shabbat dinner, he’ll get a hot dog. “A Weinerrific dinner,” TMZ said. Weiner will be dining in at Federal Medical Center in suburban Devens, Massachusetts. The disgraced ex-congressman is beginning serving a 21-month prison sentence…
Svetlana Travis Zakharova, the Russian escort who was accused of extorting $400,000 from Eliot Spitzer, pled guilty to a lesser charge in Manhattan court on Monday and was sentenced to 90 days in prison. Zakharova was arrested last year and charged with grand larceny and extortion after the ex-New York governor told authorities she tried…
Former congressman Anthony Weiner was sentenced Monday to 21 months in prison for exchanging lewd messages with a North Carolina teenager. Weiner, who represented New York as a Democrat and later ran for New York City mayor, was felled by a series of sexting scandals—the worst of which occurred last year as he was prosecuted…
Four Jews locked up in Idaho prisons will finally be able to eat kosher. A federal judge has ruled that Idaho’s Department of Correction is required to provide kosher meals in all of its facilities. After the prisoners were only able to consume fruit and matzah during Passover because they were not provided with kosher…
(JTA) — Forty years after he terrorized New York with a string of deadly assaults, serial killer David Berkowitz said remorsefully that he expects to die in prison for actions which he cannot explain. Berkowitz, 64, said this during an interview published by the New York Daily News Thursday, the 40th anniversary of his arrest…
(JTA) — Inspectors have demanded an investigation into why a Scottish jail is serving up kosher meals to more than 100 prisoners when hardly any of its inmates are Jewish, a British weekly reported. The daily cost of normal prison meals per prisoner is about $2.50, but a report by the Inspectorate of Prisons for…
The Jewish Voice for Peace Health Advisory Council expresses its support for over 1600 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails who have embarked on a hunger strike in protest of the dehumanizing conditions of their incarceration. We also affirm their right to conduct a hunger strike without the threat of force-feeding by Israeli authorities. We applaud…
To some observers, Marwan Barghouti promises a path to peace. To others, he inspires liberation. And to his jailers, he is a mass murdering terrorist. Marwan Barghouti is widely seen as the most popular political figure in Palestinian society, but he is currently serving a life sentence for murder in an Israeli prison. Last week,…
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