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The co-founder of The Pirate Bay filesharing website was on Friday detained in Sweden, days after his deportation from Cambodia, officials said. http://phys.org/news266903147.html Technology Sat, 15 Sep 2012 04:46:10 EST news266903147 (AP)—A Swedish man deported from Cambodia to serve a prison sentence for his involvement with file-sharing site The Pirate Bay faces new suspicions of hacking against the Swedish tax authority. http://phys.org/news266568088.html Technology Tue, 11 Sep 2012 07:41:33 EST news266568088 (AP)—A man has been sentenced to 2½ years in prison for selling access to botnets in a computer malware case. http://phys.org/news266237978.html Technology Fri, 07 Sep 2012 11:59:43 EST news266237978 Scores of endangered reptiles including turtles and a python that were smuggled into Hong Kong will be returned to their native Philippines on Wednesday, officials said. http://phys.org/news263014349.html Biology Wed, 01 Aug 2012 04:33:35 EST news263014349 (AP) — A former Internet poker company employee who returned to the United States from Costa Rica to face charges he helped process illegal gambling proceeds has been sentenced to a year and two months in prison by a judge who says too many people in business are willing to break the law to get ahead. http://phys.org/news262407877.html Technology Wed, 25 Jul 2012 04:04:45 EST news262407877 A German tourist has been arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle four endangered iguanas out of the Galapagos Islands, according to the national park. http://phys.org/news261116253.html Biology Tue, 10 Jul 2012 05:30:01 EST news261116253 Websites such as Facebook and Twitter will receive greater protection from lawsuits if they identify internet "trolls" accused of defaming others under a bill being debated in Britain's House of Commons on Tuesday. http://phys.org/news258713428.html Technology Tue, 12 Jun 2012 09:50:36 EST news258713428 (Phys.org) -- South Korea, a nation with a self-proclaimed goal of being a leader in robotics technology has, through the Asian Forum of Corrections (AFC), begun testing the feasibility of using robots as prison guards in an actual prison in Pohang. The robots’ duties, at least initially, are to patrol the halls between cells looking for signs of trouble, and if it finds it, alert the human guards who will take appropriate action. http://phys.org/news253967489.html Electronics Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:20:01 EST news253967489 Could widespread conjugal visitation reduce sexual offending in prisons? It's a possibility, according to Stewart D'Alessio and his team from Florida International University in the US. Their work shows that in states where conjugal visits are permitted, there are significantly fewer instances of reported rape and other sexual offenses in their prisons. The study is published online in Springer's American Journal of Criminal Justice. http://phys.org/news251548169.html Other Sciences Wed, 21 Mar 2012 11:30:17 EST news251548169 California's three-strikes law has not reduced violent crime, but has contributed significantly to the state's financial woes by substantially increasing the prison population, according to a University of California, Riverside researcher. http://phys.org/news249666890.html Other Sciences Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:54:57 EST news249666890 UT Dallas criminologist Dr. Robert Morris and doctoral student Erin Orrick won the 2012 William Simon/Anderson Publishing Outstanding Paper award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences for their article that shows offenders who return to prison on technical parole violations are far less likely to engage in prison misconduct. http://phys.org/news247730528.html Other Sciences Mon, 06 Feb 2012 06:20:01 EST news247730528 A new research project into the role of sport in rehabilitating young prisoners has found that sport can be effective in reducing the reconviction rate of offenders. http://phys.org/news246114131.html Other Sciences Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:02:17 EST news246114131 Four Romanians have been charged with hacking into the computer systems of hundreds of US merchants and making millions of dollars in purchases with stolen credit card data, the Justice Department said Thursday. http://phys.org/news242619797.html Technology Fri, 09 Dec 2011 02:23:24 EST news242619797 A United Arab Emirates court on Sunday sentenced a blogger and four other Internet activists to prison terms after finding them guilty of charges including insulting the Gulf state's leaders. http://phys.org/news241619788.html Technology Sun, 27 Nov 2011 14:40:02 EST news241619788 Identifying atypical information in financial data early could help identify problematic financial trends such as the systemic risk that recently put the U.S. and global financial systems in a downward fall. Recognizing such anomalous information can also help regulators, investors and advisors better manage their investment and savings portfolios. http://phys.org/news238832453.html Other Sciences Wed, 26 Oct 2011 07:21:01 EST news238832453 According to the Pew Center on the States, one in one hundred American adults is currently in prison. U.S. Department of Justice statistics show that 67 percent of those inmates will recidivate, or re-offend and return to prison after they are released. Now, a University of Missouri researcher has found that educating inmates and preparing them to find jobs upon their release from prison greatly reduces their recidivism rate. http://phys.org/news236967817.html Other Sciences Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:23:42 EST news236967817 The US representative of a Chinese company was sentenced to five years in prison on Friday for importing counterfeit Cisco-branded computer networking equipment, money laundering and other offenses, the Justice Department said. http://phys.org/news234797385.html Technology Fri, 09 Sep 2011 14:29:56 EST news234797385 California inmates, who are getting their hands on contraband cellphones in record numbers, have been using the devices to surf the Web and update their Facebook accounts, prison officials say. http://phys.org/news232110842.html Technology Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:50:01 EST news232110842 Sporting a mohican haircut and a protest T-shirt, Japan's maverick Internet tycoon Takafumi Horie on Monday started a two-and-a-half-year prison sentence for accounting fraud. http://phys.org/news227763009.html Technology Mon, 20 Jun 2011 04:30:21 EST news227763009 (AP) -- A British juror will be sent to jail for discussing a drug and corruption trial with a defendant on Facebook, a judge said Tuesday. http://phys.org/news227270928.html Technology Tue, 14 Jun 2011 12:00:01 EST news227270928 Female prisoners who did not participate in a drug treatment program after their release were 10 times more likely to return to prison within one year than other prisoners, a new study has found. http://phys.org/news226057724.html Other Sciences Tue, 31 May 2011 10:49:09 EST news226057724 As public sector prisons move towards the thin staffing level model of profit-making institutions, with their high turnover of personnel who are less connected to their occupation, a study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) warns of a potentially detrimental impact on prison quality. http://phys.org/news224852794.html Other Sciences Tue, 17 May 2011 19:20:01 EST news224852794 The risk of tuberculosis (TB) and latent TB (in which the bacteria that cause TB lie dormant but can reactivate later to cause active TB disease) is higher in the prison population than in the general population. And importantly, the spread of TB and latent TB within prisons can substantially increase their incidence in the general population. These key findings from a systematic review by Iacopo Baussano from the University "Amedeo Avogadro", Italy, and the Imperial College, London, UK, and colleagues and published in this week's PLoS Medicine, suggest that improvements in prison TB control would not only help to protect prisoners and staff from within-prison spread of TB, but would also reduce national TB burdens. http://phys.org/news212175936.html Medicine & Health Tue, 21 Dec 2010 17:45:47 EST news212175936 A key financier of the Swedish filesharing site, The Pirate Bay, appealed to the country's highest court on Monday to overturn his four-month prison sentence and fines to the music and movie industry, court documents showed. http://phys.org/news212071814.html Technology Mon, 20 Dec 2010 13:00:05 EST news212071814 A new study from The Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research gives an insight into what offenders really think about their punishment. http://phys.org/news208783055.html Other Sciences Fri, 12 Nov 2010 11:17:59 EST news208783055 Over the past year, Illinois residents have heard troubling stories about a program providing men and women “early release” from state prisons. Reporters and commentators have written sensational accounts of a “secret” program by which the Department of Corrections “shaved” the sentences of dangerous and violent prisoners. Political candidates have either attacked the program called MGT (Meritorious Good Time) and MGT-Push or disowned it. http://phys.org/news207564059.html Other Sciences Fri, 29 Oct 2010 09:42:27 EST news207564059 Prison numbers in England and Wales have risen sharply in the last decade, and are set to rise further. A study out today in the Probation Journal published by SAGE suggests that economists have a unique opportunity to help solve the prison crisis by bringing sophisticated economic modelling techniques to bear on the problem. http://phys.org/news204546500.html Other Sciences Fri, 24 Sep 2010 12:00:03 EST news204546500 (AP) -- South Carolina authorities who have helped push for permission to block cell phone signals inside prisons say an officer in charge of keeping out contraband was nearly killed at his home - in an attack planned with a smuggled phone. http://phys.org/news203613762.html Technology Mon, 13 Sep 2010 16:50:28 EST news203613762 It comes as no surprise that many children suffer when a parent is behind bars. But as rates of incarceration grew over the past 30 years, researchers were slow to focus on the collateral damage to children. http://phys.org/news200582593.html Medicine & Health Mon, 09 Aug 2010 14:23:32 EST news200582593 Prison-based programs to de-radicalize terrorists show promise, if well-run, says a new joint report from U.S. and British researchers. Their initial findings - the most comprehensive to date, based on programs in 15 nations - were presented at a conference this week. http://phys.org/news197350331.html Other Sciences Sat, 03 Jul 2010 04:32:29 EST news197350331