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James A. White, who is serving a life sentence in prison in Vacaville, California established a community college program for fellow inmates. (Courtesy of J. The Jewish News of Northern California/via JTA)
August 29, 2018, 4:49 am
Jewish inmate credits local paper as parole board backs commuting life sentence
James A. White Jr. was originally sentenced to die behind bars, but an inmate college program he founded boasting over 1,500 graduates to date could be the key to his release
By Maya Mirsky
This picture taken in Aulnay-sous-Bous north of Paris on July 1, 2018, shows a car abandoned by French robber Redoine Faid at O'Parinor shopping mall parking after he escaped on a helicopter from a prison in Reau. (AFP Photo/Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt)
July 2, 2018, 5:20 pm
France seeks gangster, and answers, after helicopter prison break
Government admits possible security failures as nearly 3,000 cops take part in manhunt for Redoine Faid, who once went on the lam in Israel
By Alexandra Del Peral and Caroline TAIX
This picture taken on July 1, 2018 in Gonesse, north of Paris shows a French helicopter Alouette II abandoned by French armed robber Redoine Faid after his escape from prison in Reau. (AFP/ GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT)
July 2, 2018, 6:27 am
France launches massive manhunt for escaped prisoner who once fled to Israel
Nearly 3,000 police scouring country after daring helicopter jailbreak by Redoine Faid, who previously spent time on the lam dressed as an ultra-Orthodox Jew in Israel
By AFP
Illustrative image of a prisoner behind bars. (sakhorn38/iStock via Getty images)
April 23, 2018, 12:53 pm
Ex-official in PM’s office said jailed under false name for sex offenses
Convict reportedly served in a ‘sensitive’ position; case said to be ‘extreme and unusual, and revealing details could endanger his life
By TOI staff
The iconic 'Girl of Enghelab Street' who was sentenced to two years in prison in March 2018 after appearing in public in Tehran, Iran, in December 2017 without wearing a headscarf, as mandated by law. (YouTube screenshot)
March 8, 2018, 9:37 am
Iran jails woman for two years for not wearing headscarf
‘Girl of Enghelab Street’ became icon for some 30 more women arrested for defying veil law
By Agencies
File: Turkish journalists stand behind a banner reading "If you have a free press, there is a free society -- the Gaztec organizations G9 Platform" (a journalists' association) as they protest against attacks on journalists and in support of freedom of the press during a demonstration in Ankara on May 3, 2014. (Adem Altan/AFP)
October 11, 2017, 12:24 pm
Turkey sentences Wall Street Journal reporter to prison
Ayla Albayrak to appeal conviction on charge of propaganda supporting outlawed Kurdish rebels
By AP
Gideon Weigert
August 30, 2017, 2:56 pm
Gideon Weigert
How I left the Antifa
It was just when black bloc anarchy began to fill him with dread that he was arrested and thrown in a crowded cell
An episode of “Orange Is the New Black” featuring Cindy. played by Adrienne C. Moore (c), inspired Scottish prisoners to say they were Jewish in order to demand kosher food. (Courtesy of Netflix via JTA)
July 5, 2017, 8:53 pm
TV show leads Scottish prisoners to go kosher
‘Orange Is the New Black’ inspires over 100 inmates in Edinburgh jail to request meals at four times the cost
By JTA
Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein visits the Butyrka Prison in Moscow, where he was jailed for three months ahead of his trial in 1984, on June 28, 2017 (Courtesy Israeli Embassy in Russia)
June 28, 2017, 9:57 pm
Now a Knesset leader, former prisoner of Zion returns to his Moscow cell
Returning to Butyrka prison, where he awaited a show trial 33 years ago for teaching Hebrew, Yuli Edelstein recalls the ‘gates of hell’ where his phylacteries, but not his zeal for Israel, were crushed
By Marissa Newman
Palestinian security prisoner Abed al-Basat (Channel 2 screenshot)
March 18, 2017, 10:14 am
New Israeli TV series follows lives of Palestinian security prisoners
‘Meggido’ director Itzik Lerner documented convicted terrorists for over a year, grappling with his own misgivings in the process, as he sought to gain a glimpse into their hearts
By Itamar Sharon
Illustrative photo of kosher seals. (Photo credit: Kosher symbols image via Shutterstock.)
February 20, 2017, 3:31 am
Tennessee prison inmate sues for better kosher food
Jewish man serving 56-year sentence says prison administrators discriminating against him by providing subpar meals
By JTA
Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee and husband Arash Sadeghi (Facebook photo)
January 3, 2017, 6:39 pm
Iran activist ends 71-day prison hunger strike as wife freed
Arash Sadeghi is serving 15 years for ‘spreading propaganda’; his spouse faces 6 years behind bars for unpublished fiction story featuring burning of a Quran
By Jon Gambrell
Illustrative photo of a prisoner (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)
September 21, 2016, 10:13 am
South Dakota Jewish inmate sues over kosher violations
Prisoner claims he was served pork products over period of 2 years, demands $301 per non-kosher meal
By JTA
Illustrative: A prison guard of Premier Custodial Services patrols the security fencing of Kilmarnock Prison on 26 April, 2005, Kilmarnock, Scotland. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
September 2, 2016, 6:44 am
100 Scottish prisoners request ‘nice‘ kosher meals
Glenochil Prison in Clackmannanshire sees huge rise in previously ‘very minimal Jewish prison population’
By JTA
Illustrative photo of a prisoner, December 2008 (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)
August 30, 2016, 3:04 pm
Iran releases jailed Texas graduate student
Omid Kokabee will be granted ‘conditional freedom’ for rest of 10-year sentence, having spent nearly half in prison
By AP
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