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Arch swindler Bernard Madoff will not appeal the 150-year prison sentence he received for masterminding a global multibillion-dollar investment fraud, his main lawyer said on Thursday.

Sweden's ambassador to North Korea has visited two US journalists jailed there, the US embassy says.

A former State Department employee and his wife, accused of spying for Cuba for nearly 30 years, will remain in jail as a criminal case against them proceeds, a judge ruled Wednesday.

A man facing nearly 30 years in prison for raping three women who had advertised on Craigslist's former "erotic services" section apparently committed suicide in his Kansas jail cell, sheriff's officials said Tuesday.

David Lee Gage, 52, of Wichita, was found dead at the Sedgwick County Jail early Monday after another inmate who was headed to breakfast looked through the window to Gage's cell and saw his motionless body, said Maj. Glenn Kurtz of the county sheriff's office.

Two U.S. journalists detained in North Korea while covering the plight of defectors living along the China-North Korea border have been sentenced to 12 years in prison, the country's state-run media said.

Michigan officials said Friday that the state is closing three prisons and five prison camps in hopes of narrowing a $1.4 billion budget gap for fiscal 2010.

An Italian senator demands the government intervene as a convicted Mafia boss is freed from jail because he was suffering from depression.

The music producer also could get three, four or 10 additional years for using a firearm in killing actress Lana Clarkson at his Alhambra mansion in 2003.

Rap star T.I. threw himself a going-away party Sunday night, less than two days before he is scheduled to begin serving a prison sentence on federal weapons charges.

Michael Vick walked into a federal courthouse in Virginia on Friday to meet his probation officer, ignoring questions from waiting reporters about his life under home confinement after being released from a federal prison this week.