adminTreasure hunter freed from prison after refusing to turn over shipwreck gold
Tommy Thompson spent more than a decade in prison after refusing to disclose the whereabouts of 500 missing gold coins.
Carlos Garcia
- Business
- December 22, 2025
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Notorious crypto con man Sam Bankman-Fried has a prison passion project: giving legal advice to other inmates
The founder of FTX has brought his entrepreneurial spirit behind bars. He has advised several high-profile inmates, like former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez and rapper Sean Combs, according to…
TerraUSD creator sentenced to 15 years in prison over $40bn crash
A former crypto entrepreneur who was behind two digital currencies that collapsed and lost an estimated $40bn ($29.9bn) has been sentenced by a New York judge to 15 years in…
Bryan Kohberger goes to prison, but Idaho town left with questions
Getty Images Kohberger has not offered an explanation for the crimes, though he’s confessed to breaking in and killing the four students Weeks before he was due to stand trial,…
Duterte elected mayor from ICC prison
Getty Images Rodrigo Duterte giving a speech before his arrest in March Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who is detained at The Hague over his drug war that killed thousands,…
- Opinion
- March 20, 2025
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Opinion | Prison Strip Searches Need to Go
Tracy McCarter remembers vividly the first time she was strip-searched. On Rikers Island in New York, she was forced to remove every shred of clothing and bend over to expose…
US man found near Damascus after months in Syrian prison
Getty Images Travis Timmerman said he was arrested after entering the country on foot A US man, detained for months in a Syrian prison after entering the country on foot,…
Reports of people trapped underground at Syria’s Saydnaya prison investigated
Watch: Women prisoners told ”you can go out now” by Syrian rebels The Syrian civil defence group known as the White Helmets says it is investigating reports from survivors of…
DR Congo jailbreak turns deadly at Makala Prison in Kinshasa
An attempt by inmates to break out of a high-security prison in the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kinshasa, has led to the deaths of 129 people, the…
