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...SENTENCED. Alexander Milinkevich, 58, Belarussian opposition leader, to 15 days in jail after being found guilty of attending an illegal demonstration; in Minsk. Milinkevich finished a distant second to President Alexander Lukashenko in Belarus' disputed presidential elections in March, which triggered massive protests in the former Soviet republic. Milinkevich was arrested after leading a demonstration of about 6,000 on April 26 that called for the constitutional overthrow of the Russian-backed Lukashenko...
...raided their home in February 2005, suspecting that the couple was running a meth lab. The Bakers, who turned out to be users rather than dealers, were charged with endangering the welfare of their son Justin, 12. After the Bakers were able to plea-bargain their way out of jail time, Cindy Finch, an Olmsted County social worker, offered an ultimatum: come up with a life plan or lose Justin permanently...
...speakers at the panel included Jamie L. Bissonette, coordinator of the Criminal Justice Program for the American Friends Service Committee in New England, and two formerly incarcerated women, Tina Williams and Gail Hall. Williams, who got a life-sentence for murder at the age of 19, said that jail was inadequate preparation for the real world. “Locking people up is the new slavery,” she said. “Incarceration fosters dependence on the system because you don’t have a choice of what to wear and what to eat. Jail doesn?...
...other girls who have escaped their kidnappers and buyers, were sent to prison because they carried fake passports. There, they wait for the bureaucracy to sort out their innocence. What happened to the gang that took them? The sisters hear rumors that the men paid their way out of jail and are back on the streets. "I don't know what to do if the prison administration decides to release me," says Asmah, pushing back her gray head scarf to adjust her black hair. "We have no one to protect...
...SENTENCED. Ali Sufian al-Ammari, 28, and 12 other Islamic radicals, to jail terms ranging from 18 months to seven years; for planning to bomb U.S. targets and kidnap American citizens in Yemen; in Sana'a. The terrorist cell, whose members were arrested in June 2005, was alleged to have stockpiled explosives and weapons and surveyed restaurants and hotels used by Americans in the Yemeni capital. The cell's alleged leader, al-Ammari, received the heaviest sentence for his role in founding and training the group...