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...young, she's sexy and she's a star. But Nadja Benaissa, the singer in Germany's top all-girl band "No Angels" is now sitting in a Frankfurt prison cell on remand. The 26 year-old was arrested on April 11 on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm. State prosecutors accuse her of having had sex with three men without telling them that she was HIV positive. News of Benaissa's arrest has filled Germany's tabloid newspapers while websites have been deluged with postings from distraught fans...
...Tuesday Chin asked Sorkin if it was his "expectation that [Madoff] will plead guilty" at the hearing on Thursday. "That's a reasonable expectation," Sorkin replied. The judge then said he would decide at the hearing whether to accept the plea and whether to remand Madoff to jail pending sentencing in several months, setting the stage for Madoff's climactic court appearance...
...Frank Chikowore, a 26-year-old independent freelancer, was arrested in mid April and held for 17 days. He told TIME that he was kept in leg irons in a cell in Harare Remand Prison meant for five but packed with 40 other men. There were no lights or toilets, no water for days on end and food, when served, was "filthy." A detective inspector told Chikowore that "people like me were terrorists, sell-outs and not to be trusted," and that there was a campaign under way to detain all such suspects. "He showed [me] a list...
...pickpocketing charges and playing Chicago's prosecutor and detective. "The show takes my mind out of the prison for a while. This is the best bit of prison for me. This and talking to my mum on the phone." Most of the women in Bronzefield are sent here on remand from local courts, waiting for sentencing on anything from fraud to murder. Few stay longer than a couple of months, when they're either released or moved on to more long-term accommodation. Which wreaks havoc with the performance schedule. "There's the constant worry that someone's going...
...Back in 1997, the Court decided that states have the right to remand sexual predators to high-security mental institutions after they've completed a jail term - if the state can prove the offender poses a risk to the outside world. Now, lawyers for Michael T. Crane, who was convicted in Kansas of exposing himself to a tanning-salon attendant and sexually assaulting a video store clerk back in 1993, say their client does not fit that profile. State prosecutors, on the other hand, say Crane does pose a threat, and want to lock him up after he completes...