Tag: Behind Bars

85 Year Old GA Woman Serving 10 Year Sentence For Killing Cheating Boyfriend

  

Lena Driskell, then 78, shot and killed her former boyfriend at Atlanta Housing Authority’s Hightower Manor in June 2005.

Driskell didn’t want to end a romance with her neighbor, widower Herman Winslow.

But Winslow, 85, had found another girlfriend.

Winslow was sitting on a couch in the lobby of the high rise, reading a newspaper when Driskell, wearing a hair net, support stockings, bathrobe and slippers, put a gun to his temple and fired four times.

  

When the police arrived, she waved the gun at them and said: 

“I did it, and I’d do it again.”

Driskell, now 86, was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and is serving a 10-year sentence at Pulaski State Prison.

Wow! So this is what there is to look forward to with dating! Even as a senior citizen! 

I wonder how she feels about her love rage crime now that’s she’s locked up at 86.  

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Pope Francis Urges Inmates To Become Prophets During Mexican Prison Visit

 

Preach: Pope Francis was given a cross made by an inmate during his visit to the Ciudad Juarez prison. Photo: Daily Mail
 
Via Daily Mail– Pope Francis has told prisoners in a notorious Mexican prison to become ‘prophets’ and to use their experiences through ‘hell’ to help the country break its cycle of violence.

Francis made his plea at the state penitentiary of Ciudad Juarez, a city once known as the world’s murder capital, days after a riot killed 49 inmates at another Mexican prison. 

The pope often visits prisons during his trips abroad and he chose the 3,000-capacity state prison of Ciudad Juarez for the last day of this five-day visit to Mexico.

He visited its newly-painted chapel and addressed hundreds assembled in the prison yard, telling them they should use their experiences to help ‘put end to this cycle of violence and exclusion.’

‘The one who has suffered the greatest pain, and we could say “has experienced hell,” can become a prophet in society.’

The pope argued that a country’s security problem ‘is not resolved only by incarcerating,’ arguing that the structural and cultural causes of crime must be addressed.

Read more and see more pics from Pope Francis’ prison visit on the Daily Mail.

Vietnamese Woman Escapes Death Penalty By Impregnating Herself 

  
Via Huffington Post– A Vietnamese prisoner used syringes and another inmate’s semen to impregnate herself. The country’s penal code prohibits executing pregnant prisoners.

When a Vietnamese drug smuggler gives birth this spring, she can thank her newborn baby for saving her life. 

Nguyen Thi Hue, 42, was arrested in the coastal province of Quang Ninh in 2012 on charges of drug trafficking, local newspaper Thanh Nien News reports. She was sentenced to death two years later. When she appealed, the court upheld her sentence, according to the Associated Press.  

But it looks like Hue will avoid the death penalty after all. The Vietnamese penal code forbids the execution of pregnant women or mothers with children under the age of 36 months and orders that in those cases the death penalty should be converted to life imprisonment.  

Investigators discovered that Hue paid a 27-year-old male inmate more than $2,000 in August 2015 for his semen and syringes, which they say she used to inseminate herself. The baby is due in April, and Hue’s sentence will officially be reduced to life imprisonment after the birth.

Four officers at the prison have been suspended for alleged negligence, according to the Associated Press. 

As Thanh Nien News points out, this is not the first time a prisoner has pulled off escaping death row by getting pregnant.

In 2007, two guards who worked at Hoa Binh prison were jailed after they allowed a male inmate to have sex with a female prisoner, which resulted in a pregnancy. The prisoner gave birth to a boy in March of that year and escaped death by firing squad.