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A Long Island penny stockbroker who served 36 months in prison for defrauding investors in a massive 1990s securities scam that involved widespread corruption on Wall Street and in the corporate banking world, including shoe designer Steve Madden.

Bossio did several prison stints, the longest of which was 12 years at multiple prisons including New York's Rikers Island for a bank robbery.

Six guards at New York City's Rikers Island jail complex were sentenced on Friday to prison for the 2012 beating of an inmate that left him with fractured eye sockets and a broken nose.

Although Robben Island is generally a tourist attraction, Fricker recommends speaking with a former prison guard, like author and guard for Mandela Christo Brand, after the experience.

Mr. Atwal is the Sikh extremist who served prison time in Canada for attempting to murder a visiting Indian cabinet minister on Vancouver Island in 1986.

If they have never been anywhere else but the island and women have not been there for 1000 years then it is safe to assume they are getting each other pregnant prison style otherwise 1 of those statements is not true....

And if you sat in a lonely prison far from all men, or if you were placed out upon a desert island with only animals for company, if you genuinely will the Good, if you hold fast to God, then you are in unity with all men.

He writes about the sixteen days he spent sailing the Pacific Ocean with five buddies and a crate of canned meat, the time he took his kids on a world tour to eat ice cream with heads of state, his stubbornness in getting into law school by sitting on a bench outside the dean's office for seven days until they finally let him enroll, his «office» at Tom Sawyer Island at Disneyland, the flowers he sent to the elderly woman who nearly killed him running a stop sign, the work he's done to free Ugandan children from prison.

But San Antonio prison, renowned on Margarita Island as a relatively tranquil place where even visitors can go for sinful weekend partying, is in a class of its own.

When asked about Spira by SI's Martin F. Dardis, Caridi, now serving five to 15 years in an upstate New York prison for robbery, assault, coercion and criminal usury, said that Spira was «a degenerate gambler» who «hung around» the Long Island restaurant Caridi used to own.

The former Staten Island district attorney replaced fellow GOP Congressman Michael Grimm, who went to prison for tax fraud, in a special election in 2015.

BRONX SUPREME COURT — Six of the correction officers convicted of the brutal beating of a Rikers Island inmate in 2012 were sentenced to prison time on Friday and will head back to Rikers Island for processing before getting sent upstate.

For too long, a culture of violence has prevailed at Rikers Island, denying those within its walls the protections of the Constitution, rights to which all in this country, including prison inmates, are entitled,» Bharara said in a statement.

A former Staten Island congressman who served seven months in prison for tax evasion, Republican Michael Grimm, blamed his departure from office in 2014 on the «same politically corrupt team of players» that he claims is driving the Russia investigation.

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (CBSNewYork / AP)-- A former Long Island police chief charged with beating a handcuffed man for stealing embarrassing items from his department vehicle and then covering it up was sentenced to 46 months in prison Wednesday.

Former Rep. Michael Grimm, a Staten Island Republican, who resigned from Congress in 2014 and served time in prison for fraud, has hired Michael Caputo, one of Trump's former campaign advisers, as he readies an expected bid to win back his old seat.

A prominent New York City landlord, Steve Croman, was sentenced to a year in Rikers Island for tax and loan fraud, a rare prison term in such cases, according to the attorney general.

A former Staten Island congressman who served seven months in prison for tax evasion blamed his departure from office in 2014 on the «same politically corrupt team of players» that he claims is driving the Russia investigation.

Key public Long Island figures were sent to prison in recent years when they either pleaded guilty or were convicted, while others are still waiting for trial.

The repeated and diverse efforts by Senator Skelos, a Long Island Republican, to use what prosecutors said was his political influence to find work, or at least income, for his son could send both men to federal prison.

In 1746, for example, the flames dancing on San Lorenzo Island in Peru impressed prison governor Manuel Romero so much that he briefly released the detainees to let them watch.

The history of Ireland and Belfast has never been straightforward, which means that the prisons on the island have often been at the heart of life for people.

After dating online for six months, Jeanne Siegel and Billy Serviss decide to meet on «Love Prison,» a deserted island where they have zero privacy.

Nelson Mandela was released from a Robben Island prison in 1990, after being inside for twenty - seven years.

In the 1930s set film, the English gent, 38, forms a curious bond with counterfeiter Louis, played by Rami Malek, when he's sent to the notorious Devil's Island prison colony in French Guiana after being framed for murder.

The island itself is a high security prison for the criminally insane, complete with hulking ancient buildings that loom before the central characters as they first arrive.

While the core story of two US Marshals in 1954 investigating the seemingly impossible disappearance of an escapee from an island based prison for the criminally insane is compelling, the film's ultimate achievement is its manipulation of perception on a filmic level.

«The Night Of» is an engrossing, all - encompassing whodunit that takes on a fuller dimension when Naz, denied bail, is transferred to Rikers Island and must fend for himself, choosing to ally with the prison alpha male, Freddy (Michael Kenneth Williams).

Most famous as the site of a federal prison, Alcatraz Island was first a military fortress, home to the first lighthouse on the Pacific Coast in the mid 1850's, and a military prison for prisoners of the Civil and Spanish American Wars.

This island paradise has secrets it would keep; not just in the present, but in shadows from its gritty past, when it served as a prison for the Lincoln conspirators during and after the Civil War.

«Much of the architecture dates to the Venetian occupation in the early 18th century, including the high castle «Palamidi» towering above, and the island fortress called «Bourtzi» used as a prison, a palace for officials, and then a luxury hotel just off shore.

This afternoon, travel by ferry to Robben Island — the prison where Nelson Mandela was held for 18 years — and learn about his historic «walk to freedom.»

Robben Island — home to Nelson Mandela and other political prisoners for decades, this former prison colony off the coast of Cape Town is a humbling place to visit.

This week the NYT headed off - the - beaten - path in Vietnam in search of a little respite from the hustle and bustle that is the rest of the country, and where they found it may be a little surprising: Con Dao — the infamous island chain known more for their prisons than for their visitors.

Okay, in truth there really is no substitute for the moving trip to Robben Island, home to the prison that held Nelson Mandela for 18 of his 27 years of incarceration.

Noronha formed as a result of volcanic activity and initially the island was used as a prison for convicted Brazilians.

Alcatraz Island, home to its namesake famous prison off the San Francisco Bay, welcomed back its last inmates for the 50th anniversary of the closure of one of the most notorious penitentiaries in the world.

Alcatraz Island is famous mainly for one thing: its prison.

We also opt for a sailing trip on a large catamaran with Adventure Cat that whisks us past the rocky prison island of Alcatraz and under the Golden Gate Bridge.

A day trip to Alcatraz Island, the infamous former prison site, is a must - see for many travelers looking for adventure during their journey (book the night tour to be spooked — not for the faint of heart!).

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The 14 stops include Pier 39, the Palace of Fine Arts, Golden Gate Park near the California Academy of Sciences and deYoung Museum, the Haight - Ashbury, Chinatown, North Beach (Little Italy) near Lombard Street and Coit Tower, the Alcatraz ferry landing (add on a trip to this prison island for $ 26), and more.

As we continued to swing out over the ocean, we caught a glimpse of Robbeneiland (Robben Island), which is of course where Nelson Mandela was held for 18 of the 27 years he was forced to serve in prison.

Encompassing the entire area north and south of the Golden Gate Bridge, it includes the Presidio of San Francisco, a fort perched at the opening of San Francisco Bay for 218 years, Alcatraz, the island prison made famous in the movies, and Muir Woods National Monument, commemorating the father of the environmental movement in the US.

Highlights include the Presidio of San Francisco, a fort perched at the opening of San Francisco Bay for 218 years, Alcatraz, the island prison made famous in the movies, and Muir Woods National Monument, commemorating the father of the environmental movement in the US.

Regularly scheduled day tours to Alcatraz are a great way to tour the grand but spooky prison perched on an island in San Francisco Bay, but for a different look at «The Rock,» try one of these tours.

Formerly a political prison until the late 1940s, Koh Tao (literally «Turtle Island» in English) is now a relaxing island known for its great beaches and excellent dIsland» in English) is now a relaxing island known for its great beaches and excellent disland known for its great beaches and excellent diving.

After landing on the island the Straw Hat pirates are kidnapped by The Red Count; a powerful pirate who escaped the depths of Impel Down, an infamous underwater maximum - security prison for the most dangerous criminals the world has seen.

Headed for the remote prison island in search of his missing daughter, Barry Burton meets brand new character Natalia Korda, a little girl who has a strange power that allows her to sense enemies and hidden items.