Fred Warmbier, father of Otto Warmbier, holding a press conference in Wyoming, Ohio, while wearing the jacket his son wore when he gave a forced confession in North Korea, June 15, 2017. (Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)
By Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published April 18, 2012
CHARLESTON, Mo.—Ten inmates, all but one part of the prison’s Jewish Worship Group, are seated around a large rectangular table, eagerly waiting. Several wear yarmulkes and have tallits draped over their shoulders while the others gladly accept one...
JERUSALEM -- Shlomo Benizri, a former Israeli Cabinet minister released from prison, compared his time served to that of former captive soldier Gilad Shalit. Benizri, of the haredi Orthodox Shas Party, was released from prison on March 1, one month before...
The California prison system is violating a Messianic Jewish prisoner's constitutional rights by denying him kosher food, a state appeals court ruled. A three-justice panel of the California 3rd District Court of Appeals ruled Jan. 11 that Margarito...
BY JO MANNIES
ST. LOUIS BEACON
• Published November 24, 2010
No more 4 a.m. telephone calls from a Federal Bureau of Prisons official verifying that he's home. Lots of time on his bicycle tooling around in the fresh air.Such are the seemingly trivial changes in the life of former state Sen. Jeff Smith that, for...
