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Cody Man To Serve Life In Prison For Wife Killing

Associated Press — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 11:30:12 +0000

CODY, Wyo. (AP) — A judge in Cody has sentenced a man to life in prison, with the possibility of parole, for the screwdriver stabbing death of his wife.

Under a plea agreement reached with prosecutors, Myron Friday, of Cody, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder on Tuesday in exchange for not facing the death penalty

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Gov. Mead Grants 1st Prison Sentence Commutation

Associated Press — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 17:43:50 +0000

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Gov. Matt Mead has granted his first commutation of a prison sentence since he took office two years ago.

Mead had denied every previous commutation recommended by the Wyoming Board of Parole — a total of 17 cases since 2011

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Guilty Plea In Casper Adult Video Store Robbery

Rich Denison — Thu, 17 May 2012 18:09:06 +0000

A man charged in an armed robbery at a Casper Adult store will be heading to prison.

Antoine Miller entered a guilty plea Thursday morning on two charges stemming from the late December, 2011, robbery of the Emporium Adult Store on East F Street in Casper. M

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Woman Gets Life For Killing Pregnant Acquaintance

Associated Press — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 16:00:11 +0000

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky woman has been sentenced to life in prison in the brutal murder of a pregnant acquaintance whose baby boy was ripped from her womb.

Kathy Coy of Morgantown agreed to the sentence in a deal last month in which she avoided a possible death penalty by pleading guilty but mentally ill to killing 21-year-old Jamie Stice last year and taking the baby

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Prison Time For Man Accused In 2011 Church Arson

Associated Press — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:32:46 +0000

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A 23-year-old man has been sentenced to prison for his role in a church arson in 2011.

Northern Arapaho tribal member Norman Ybarra of the Wind River Indian Reservation was sentenced Friday to four years and five months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release

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Teen Sentenced To Life

Associated Press — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:35:18 +0000

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A central Missouri teenager who confessed to strangling, cutting and stabbing a 9-year-old girl because she wanted to know how it felt to kill someone was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison with the possibility of parole

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UN Rights Chief Says U.S. Must Close Guantanamo

Associated Press — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:38:01 +0000

GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. human rights chief says the U.S. government must close the Guantanamo Bay prison as President Barack Obama promised a year ago.

Navi Pillay, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, says "the facility continues to exist and individuals remain arbitrarily detained — indefinitely — in clear breach of international law

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Colorado Woman Faces Up To 11 Years For Laramie Wreck

Associated Press — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:56:13 +0000

LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — A Longmont, Colo., woman who ran a red light and crashed into a car while trying to elude Wyoming state troopers faces up to 11 years' incarceration.

Twenty-one-year-old Amanda J

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Woman Gets 7 Years In Murder Plot Against Husband

Associated Press — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:43:09 +0000

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A 44-year-old Cheyenne woman has been sentenced to seven years in prison for using a cellphone to hire someone to kill her husband.

Brenda Poteet had pleaded guilty earlier to using interstate commerce facilities in the commission of a murder for hire

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Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich Sentenced to 14 Years in Federal Prison

Shauna Wright — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:00:42 +0000

Rod Blagojevich, the former Democratic governor of Illinois, was sentenced Wednesday to 14 years in federal prison for political corruption that includes an attempt to sell the US Senate seat once held by President Barack Obama.

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Court To Look At Life In Prison For Juveniles

Associated Press — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:54:56 +0000

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether juveniles convicted of killing someone may be locked up for life with no chance of parole, a follow-up to last year's ruling barring such sentences for teenagers whose crimes do not include killing

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Nearly 12,000 California Prisoners Go On Hunger Strike to Protest Solitary Confinement

Shauna Wright — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:54:10 +0000

Up to 12,000 inmates in eight California prisons are said to be entering the ninth day of a hunger strike, protesting the manner and length in which inmates are kept in solitary confinement.

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Arizona Now Charges People $25 to Visit Prison Inmates

Shauna Wright — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:00:36 +0000

New legislation in Arizona allows the state’s Department of Corrections to impose a one-time “background check fee” of $25 on adults wishing to visit inmates at any of its 15 facilities.

Needless to say, families and prisoner advocacy groups are not happy, citing the existing costs of traveling to visit loved ones housed in prisons that are often located in remote areas.

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