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US Man, Who Sought Explicit Photos From Filipino Girls, Jailed For 30 Years
A Chicago man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for soliciting sexually explicit photos and videos from young girls in the Philippines.
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US YouTube Celebrity Gets 10 Years In Jail For Child Pornography
A YouTube musical celebrity was sentenced on Friday in a Chicago courtroom to 10 years in prison for enticing girls as young as 14 to produce sexually explicit videos of themselves.
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She Created 'Anger Room' To Fight Violence. Ex Beat Her To Death
The idea first came to Donna Alexander when she was 16 and growing up on the South Side of Chicago in the late 1990s: What if all the people in jail for hurting people and breaking things could take their anger someplace else?
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26/11 Convict David Headley Reportedly Critical After Attack In US Jail
The US authorities refused to comment on media reports that Pakistani-American convict in the 2008 Mumbai terror attack case David Coleman Headley was battling for his life after being attacked by inmates at a detention centre on Monday.
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Chicago Sues Trump Administration Over 'Sanctuary City' Funds Freeze Plan
Chicago on Monday sued to prevent the Trump administration from enforcing new policies that would withhold money from so-called sanctuary cities that deny U.S. immigration officials access to local jails
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Judge Refuses To Release 4 Accused Of Beating Specially-Abled Youth
A Chicago judge refused to allow four African Americans caught on cellphone footage taunting and beating a specially-abled white man to post bail and leave jail, saying they are accused of such "terrible actions" that they are a danger to society.
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Man Accidentally Locked In Chicago Jail Is Awarded $600,000
A man who was accidentally locked up in a Chicago jail for more than a day has been awarded a $600,000 settlement.
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Chicago Calm a Day After Release of Video of Police Shooting Teenager
The white Chicago policeman charged with murdering a black teenager he shot 16 times spent his first full day in custody on Wednesday in a jail hospital ward, but calm prevailed in the city despite fears of civil unrest over a video of the slaying.
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Indian-American Jailed for 6 Years for Ponzi Scheme
A 34-year-old Indian-American investment manager has been sentenced to six years in prison for defrauding investors of millions of dollars through a Ponzi scheme to fund his "extravagant lifestyle", and has been ordered to pay over USD 9 million in penalty.
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Indian-American Physician Jailed for Health Care Fraud
A Chicago based Indian-American physician whose medical license was suspended has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for health care fraud and illegally prescribing controlled substance medications.
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US Jails Struggle With Role as Makeshift Asylums
Many of the 3,300 jails across the US have seen a rise in the number of inmates with serious mental illnesses, most arrested for non-violent crimes.
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US man robs bank to go 'home' to prison, sentenced to 3 years
A 74-year-old man in the US has been sentenced to over three years in jail for robbing a bank so that he could go back "home" to prison as he felt more comfortable there.
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Man charged in USD 7 million shoplifting case jailed
The head of a suburban Chicago family accused of stealing USD 7 million in goods in a decade-long shoplifting spree will stay in jail because he is a flight risk, a federal judge ruled on Monday.
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Indian-American doctor sentenced to two years in jail in US
An Indian-American doctor, who owned weight loss clinics in the US, has been sentenced to two years in prison for illegally dispensing millions of pills containing amphetamine-based controlled substances to patients.
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Ishrat was suicide bomber, said David Headley: Intelligence Bureau's letter in February
When officers of India's National Investigating Agency (NIA) were allowed to interrogate David Coleman Headley in a jail in Chicago in 2010, the Pakistani-American allegedly told them that Ishrat Jahan, a college student shot dead by the Gujarat Police in 2004, had terrorist links.
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US Man, Who Sought Explicit Photos From Filipino Girls, Jailed For 30 Years
A Chicago man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for soliciting sexually explicit photos and videos from young girls in the Philippines.
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US YouTube Celebrity Gets 10 Years In Jail For Child Pornography
A YouTube musical celebrity was sentenced on Friday in a Chicago courtroom to 10 years in prison for enticing girls as young as 14 to produce sexually explicit videos of themselves.
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She Created 'Anger Room' To Fight Violence. Ex Beat Her To Death
The idea first came to Donna Alexander when she was 16 and growing up on the South Side of Chicago in the late 1990s: What if all the people in jail for hurting people and breaking things could take their anger someplace else?
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26/11 Convict David Headley Reportedly Critical After Attack In US Jail
The US authorities refused to comment on media reports that Pakistani-American convict in the 2008 Mumbai terror attack case David Coleman Headley was battling for his life after being attacked by inmates at a detention centre on Monday.
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Chicago Sues Trump Administration Over 'Sanctuary City' Funds Freeze Plan
Chicago on Monday sued to prevent the Trump administration from enforcing new policies that would withhold money from so-called sanctuary cities that deny U.S. immigration officials access to local jails
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Judge Refuses To Release 4 Accused Of Beating Specially-Abled Youth
A Chicago judge refused to allow four African Americans caught on cellphone footage taunting and beating a specially-abled white man to post bail and leave jail, saying they are accused of such "terrible actions" that they are a danger to society.
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Man Accidentally Locked In Chicago Jail Is Awarded $600,000
A man who was accidentally locked up in a Chicago jail for more than a day has been awarded a $600,000 settlement.
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Chicago Calm a Day After Release of Video of Police Shooting Teenager
The white Chicago policeman charged with murdering a black teenager he shot 16 times spent his first full day in custody on Wednesday in a jail hospital ward, but calm prevailed in the city despite fears of civil unrest over a video of the slaying.
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Indian-American Jailed for 6 Years for Ponzi Scheme
A 34-year-old Indian-American investment manager has been sentenced to six years in prison for defrauding investors of millions of dollars through a Ponzi scheme to fund his "extravagant lifestyle", and has been ordered to pay over USD 9 million in penalty.
-
Indian-American Physician Jailed for Health Care Fraud
A Chicago based Indian-American physician whose medical license was suspended has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for health care fraud and illegally prescribing controlled substance medications.
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US Jails Struggle With Role as Makeshift Asylums
Many of the 3,300 jails across the US have seen a rise in the number of inmates with serious mental illnesses, most arrested for non-violent crimes.
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US man robs bank to go 'home' to prison, sentenced to 3 years
A 74-year-old man in the US has been sentenced to over three years in jail for robbing a bank so that he could go back "home" to prison as he felt more comfortable there.
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Man charged in USD 7 million shoplifting case jailed
The head of a suburban Chicago family accused of stealing USD 7 million in goods in a decade-long shoplifting spree will stay in jail because he is a flight risk, a federal judge ruled on Monday.
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Indian-American doctor sentenced to two years in jail in US
An Indian-American doctor, who owned weight loss clinics in the US, has been sentenced to two years in prison for illegally dispensing millions of pills containing amphetamine-based controlled substances to patients.
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Ishrat was suicide bomber, said David Headley: Intelligence Bureau's letter in February
When officers of India's National Investigating Agency (NIA) were allowed to interrogate David Coleman Headley in a jail in Chicago in 2010, the Pakistani-American allegedly told them that Ishrat Jahan, a college student shot dead by the Gujarat Police in 2004, had terrorist links.
