Woman said imprisoned and abused in race crime
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A young black woman was held prisoner for a week in a remote area of West Virginia where she was sexually and racially abused, stabbed and forced to eat animal waste, a prosecutor said on Wednesday in a case he compared to a horror movie.
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An 82-year-old accused of making her neighbours' lives hell has a string of previous convictions, a court hears.
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A woman whose two stepdaughters were discovered last year in an advanced state of starvation has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison.
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Esther Rhodes often finds herself explaining charges or procedures to defendants during court proceedings.
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Police face disciplinary action over handling of case of woman whose father and uncle have been convicted of her murder.
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A fourth defendant has pleaded guilty to charges stemming from the suspected torture of a young black woman who authorities say was held captive last summer for days.
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She was taken handcuffed and crying from her home. She was escorted into court disheveled, without makeup, hair askew and face red with tears.
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A college professor convicted of staging a hate crime by spray-painting her own car with racist slurs was ordered to undergo 90 days of psychological testing at a state prison.
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A millionaire couple accused of keeping two Indonesian women as slaves were held in jail on Thursday amid new allegations that the women's relatives were threatened and offered bribes to make the case go away.
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A Democratic congresswoman cited the case of an Iraqi Associated Press photographer imprisoned by the U.S. military during debate Wednesday on a new prisoner treatment bill that she considers too harsh.
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A man in prison for rape has been linked by DNA evidence to the killings of a dozen women, including three that another man was convicted of committing, police said Saturday.
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the time she had to report to the country&#39;s oldest federal prison for women. service of her sentence,&quot; a Federal Bureau of Prisons statement said.
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MIAMI - Two women who cared for a still-missing Florida girl were charged Wednesday with abusing her before she vanished, placing her in an animal cage and tying her to her bed.
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A woman who told police she had been raped was jailed for two days after officers found an old warrant accusing her of failing to pay restitution for a 2003 theft arrest.
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A prison inmate has been linked by DNA evidence to the killings of a dozen women in Los Angeles, including three slayings for which another man was wrongly convicted.
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An asylum seeker who was jailed for several sex attacks but allowed to stay in Britain is jailed for a further attack.
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Tapes show how mother of two 'helped run' her husband's criminal empire whilst he was in jail.