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R. Allen Stanford, the Texas financier accused of directing a $7 billion Ponzi scheme, complained that his jail cell often lacks light and air conditioning.

For the past week, Stanford, who's in a cell in Conroe, Texas, with from eight to 10 other men, has endured heat and intermittent lack of power when outside temperatures reached 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 Celsius) or more, his lawyer, Dick DeGuerin, said yesterday in a motion asking that his client be transferred to a downtown Houston jail.

A U.N. court trying the architects of Rwanda's 1994 genocide jailed a former Kigali governor for life on five counts including ordering the killing of 60 Tutsi boys in a church-run pastoral center.

North Korea appears "seriously interested" in releasing two convicted American journalists but first wants the United States ...

Arch swindler Bernard Madoff will not appeal the 150-year prison sentence he received for masterminding a global multibillion-dollar investment fraud, his main lawyer said on Thursday.

A former State Department employee and his wife, accused of spying for Cuba for nearly 30 years, will remain in jail as a criminal case against them proceeds, a judge ruled Wednesday.

Rapper T.I. will serve 366 days on federal weapons charges at low-security jail.

McA man arrested for allegedly failing to appear for jury duty was released Saturday after spending 83 days in jail, a length ...

A federal appeals court ruled that Madoff, who faces up to 150 years in prison, must remain in jail until his sentencing.

The lawyers of disgraced US financier Bernard Madoff contest a judge's decision to revoke his bail and send him to jail.

A 75-year-old widow in Saudi Arabia has been sentenced to 40 lashes and four months in jail for mingling with two young men who are not close relatives.