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FILE PHOTO: Blackwater Worldwide security guard Nick Slatten (center) leaves the federal courthouse after being arraigned with 4 fellow Blackwater guards on manslaughter charges for allegedly killing 14 unarmed civilians and wounding 20 others in a 2007 shooting in Baghdad, in Washington, January 6, 2009. Photo by Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

Nation Aug 14

Ex-Blackwater contractor sentenced to life for Iraq shootings

By Ashraf Khalil, Associated Press

The front gate is pictured at the Taconic Correctional Facility in Bedford Hills, New York April 8, 2016. Inmates at Taconic Correctional Facility, a medium security women's prison in suburban Bedford Hills near New York City, are reading the classic works of Homer, Euripides and Virgil. The Columbia University course, organised by the non-profit Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison, aims to boost employment for convicts after release and reduce rates of reoffending. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri SEARCH "TACONIC ALLEGRI" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "THE WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES - GF10000379791

7 inmates dead, 17 injured in South Carolina prison fighting

It's the latest violence in a system where 12 inmates were killed by other prisoners last year and 250 prisoners were assaulted so severely in 2016 and 2017 they had to be treated in outside hospitals, according to public records…

By Meg Kinnard, Associated Press

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Staff Sgt. Bales Sentenced to Life in Prison for Murdering 16 Afghan Cilvilians

Staff Sgt. Bales Sentenced to Life in Prison for Murdering 16 Afghan Cilvilians…

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In Court, James ‘Whitey’ Bulger Reacted to Convictions ‘Like a Poker Player’

In Court, James 'Whitey' Bulger Reacted to Convictions 'Like a Poker Player'…

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Moussaoui Gets Life Sentence for Role in 9/11 Attacks

A federal jury decided Wednesday that al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui Wednesday should spend life in prison, rather than be put to death, for his role in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

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