A man from El Salvador has died at an immigration jail in New Jersey that has been the target of months of protests over living conditions for people detained there, federal officials said Monday. Edwin Lopez-Cornejo, 41, had been held at Delaney Hall in Newark after being arrested June 18, according to U.S. Immigration and
New Bell, a famous prison in Douala, Cameroon, is a city within a city. The facility has its own “taxis” (inmates who walk through congested yards to hand-deliver messages), its own law enforcement (burly prisoners who help uptight guards keep an eye on the facility), and market (a series of stalls where convicts sell and
South Korean prosecutors have requested a one-year prison sentence for the owner of a Michelin-starred restaurant accused of using ants as a dessert garnish, local media reported. Ants are not among the 10 species of insects approved for human consumption under the country’s laws. The approved list includes grasshoppers, locusts and two-spotted crickets, among others.
The former director of Italy’s motorway operator has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for the collapse of the Morandi bridge in Genoa in August 2018. Prosecutors had asked for a much longer prison sentence for the former head of Autostrade per l’Italia, Giovanni Castellucci. Forty-three people died when the highway bridge through the
Abu Safiya was director of the Kamal Adwan hospital in northern Gaza, caring for patients and running the hospital while the area was under “almost total siege” by Israeli forces, according to the UN. He was detained in December 2024, when the Israeli military forced patients and medical staff to leave the hospital, saying it