Prison sentence

Michigan man receives 20-year sentence for providing material support to ISIS

Aws Mohammed Naser, convicted of attempting to support ISIS and creating bomb-making materials, is sentenced to 20 years in prison.

 The seal of the US Justice Department is seen on the podium in the Department's headquarters briefing room before a news conference with the Attorney General in Washington, January 24, 2023.
An illustration of Tefillin, August 18, 2025.

Man sentenced to 10 months in prison for urinating near tefillin cabinet, looting charity boxes

A view of the Manhattan skyline as seen from Roosevelt Island with United Nations building in the forefront on April 14, 2026 in New York City.

'Die, Jews, Die!': NYC man sentenced to prison for antisemitic, anti-white assaults

The law courts in Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv court convicts crime boss Ismail Jarushi, 12 others in SSQ extortion-and-shooting case


Bernie Madoff's early release request rejected by federal judge

'When I sentenced Mr. Madoff in 2009, it was fully my intent that he live out the rest of his life in prison. Nothing has happened in the 11 years since to change my thinking.'

Accused swindler Bernard Madoff exits the Manhattan federal court house in New York, U.S. on January 14, 2009

Jewish prisoners in Michigan to get certified kosher meals

The settlement of the lawsuit backed by the Michigan American Civil Liberties Union was reached over the weekend.

Inmates prepare food during a culinary competition called 'Inpe Mistura 2016', where prisoners from different jails took on the roles of cooks and assistants, at the Chorrillos women's jail in Lima, Peru. September 7, 2016

Israeli man gets life in prison for sodomy, murder, 21 years after grisly crime

In January, Nahmani was convicted of murder and sodomy but was acquitted of rape, 21 years after the crime and having been unidentified as the murderer during most of that period.

Daniel Nachmani, suspect in the murder of Noa Eyal, arrives to the courtroom of the Jerusalem's District Court on January 3, 2019. Noa Eyal was raped and murdered in 1998 while she was 17 years-old, her body was found in the Ramot Forest in northern Jerusalem the day after. Police released on Octobe

Malaysian citizen jailed for insulting Islam on social media

The sentence is believed to be the harshest such penalty on record in the Muslim-majority country, where concerns over racial and religious tensions have grown in recent months.

Malaysia Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad speaks during the APEC CEO Summit 2018 at the Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, 17 November 2018

Disgraced former Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger set for early release from prison

Metzger started serving his sentence in May 2017 following a plea bargain with the state prosecution.

Former chief rabbi Yona Metzger leaves a Jerusalem court last March

Palestinian minor who killed Israeli in supermarket gets 35 years prison

Sgt.Tuvia Yania Weissman was stabbed to death in February 2016 at the Rami Levi supermarket

IDF Sgt. Tuvia Yanai Weissman (R), his wife, and baby

U.N.-Cambodia convicts two ex-Khmer Rouge leaders of genocide

Nuon Chea, 92, and former President Khieu Samphan, 87, were guilty of genocide against the Cham Muslim minority and Vietnamese people, and of various crimes against humanity.

Cambodia protests 521

High court keeps pressure on state to release prisoners, make cells larger

The decision will place intense pressure on the entire police force and the prison system so that cell space will become compliant with international standards.

INMATES WALK through the Hermon Prison in northern Israel last week.

7 alleged Mossad spies sentenced in Algerian court

One man was sentenced to death, while six others were sentenced to ten years in prison.

Spy wars

IDF Parole Board orders early release of Hebron shooter Elor Azaria

Azaria entered jail on August 9, after being convicted of manslaughter for shooting Palestinian attacker Abdel Fatah al-Sharif on March 24, 2016.

Elor Azaria wearing a shirt with the Star of David as he enters prison in August, 2017