Maintenance of Guantanamo has been revealed to cost over $150 million each year, with immediate estimates citing it one of the most expensive prisons in the world. This comes as the hunger strike at the detention facility is far from over. Follow RT’s day-by-day timeline of the Gitmo hunger strike. The prison camp situated at the US naval base in Cuba costs over $900,000 annually per prisoner, placing... 

Italy’s former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been sentenced to one year in prison over the publication of leaked transcripts from a police wiretap in 2005. The 76-year-old billionaire was accused of violating secrecy laws in 2005, when the daily Il Giornale, which is run by his brother, published the transcripts in an apparent attempt to discredit... 

A “doomsday prepper” in a rural area of Maryland became a target for police and the FBI after he told an undercover cop that he was “very irritated” about Barack Obama’s re-election, sparking an investigation that eventually led to 46-year-old Terry Porter being thrown in prison and having his home raided by 150 armed officers. The series of events began when an anonymous... 

Hard talk: Reporter David Rose interviews a Muslim inmate at Whitemoor prison To reach the heart of HM Prison Belmarsh is a bleak and time-consuming process. It means a thorough search at the gate, the issuing of a special biometric identity card, and a long, repetitive journey through successive electronic gates in the vast, brick-built perimeter and concentric layers of razor-wire fence. It is a... 

Circle of friends: The Salmans said that what they’re doing is no different than inviting people over for a weekly game of poker or a Super Bowl party The war on home Bible studies and house churches is heating up again. Down in Phoenix, Arizona a man has been sentenced to 60 days in prison and has been fined $12,180 for hosting a Bible study in his home. Since 2005, Michael Salman and his wife... 

Forensic personnel remove the corpse of one of the inmates of the National Prison compound in Comayagua, Honduras, on February 15, 2012. A massive fire has swept through a prison in Honduras killing at least 350 inmates, many of whom burned to death in their cells, officials say. According to senior official at the attorney general’s office, Danelia Ferrera, the blaze that began late on Tuesday... 

WikiLeaks: Half of the prisoners at Guantánamo were innocent. The newspapers El Pais, The New York Times and Washington Post published on their Web sites Sunday night (24) a series of secret documents that reveal detailed information about the U.S. military base in Guantanamo. The three publications deal with 759 records of 779 prisoners who passed through the prison. Dated between 2002 and 2009,... 

Nightmare ordeal: Alicia Gali is warning other women to be cautious overseas. A Queensland woman spent eight months in a United Arab Emirates jail for adultery after complaining to police about being drugged and raped by co-workers. Alicia Gali, 29, yesterday detailed her harrowing ordeal after filing a Queensland lawsuit against the five-star international resort where the attack allegedly took place... 

Actor Wesley Snipes was ordered on Friday to start serving a three-year prison sentence for failing to file income tax returns by a federal judge who rejected the Hollywood star’s bid for a new trial. “The defendant Snipes had a fair trial … The time has come for the judgment to be enforced,” U.S. District Judge Terrell Hodges said in his ruling. Revoking bail for the 48-year-old... 

Willem Ratte It has been eighteen days since Willem Ratte, Boer Republican, and ten others were imprisoned by the South African government without substantial evidence for their imprisonment. This questionable imprisonment has together with the continual victimization of Boers by the South African Government led Ratte on a hunger strike. The Boers is a minority in South Africa seeking their independence... 

The national battle over the government’s inability to stem the tide of illegal immigrants got personal Friday in a federal courtroom. U.S. District Court Judge Kenneth Marra bristled at the suggestion that the government’s time would be better spent keeping illegal immigrants from entering the country than prosecuting a suburban West Palm Beach man for hiring them. Business people such... 

Dr Töben was released from prison at 8.00am, Thursday 12th November, after serving a three month sentence for Holocaust denial (re-branded as contempt of court). He is unbroken and unrepentant, and appears very refreshed and relaxed after his little holiday. He was welcomed home by his friends and supporters who held a celebratory dinner for him, on Thursday evening. During his speech on the night,... 

A federal judge rejected Bernard Madoff’s plea for leniency Monday, sentencing the 71-year-old swindler to spend the rest of his life in prison for an “extraordinarily evil” fraud that took a staggering toll on thousands of victims. U.S. District Judge Denny Chin cited the unprecedented nature of the multibillion-dollar fraud as he sentenced Madoff to the maximum of 150 years... 

Jersey City & Kearny, NJ (TRN Staff) — At a 3:30 PM hearing held yesterday in the Superior Court of New Jersey at 595 Newark Avenue, Jersey City, the Honorable Judge Kevin Callahan ordered that Hal Turner be freed on bail. At about 2:30 AM Tuesday morning, Turner was released from jail after posting $25,000 bail. Turner had been held without bail at the Hudson County Correctional Center in... 

A New York City judge has spared an 85-year-old former U.S. Army engineer any prison time but fined him $50,000 for passing classified documents to the Israelis in the 1970s and ’80s. Federal Judge William Pauley told Ben-ami Kadish he had committed a grave offense but noted the government had dramatically reduced the charge against him. In December, the Monroe Township, N.J., man admitted passing...