After several months of being prosecuted, a woman has been sentenced to eight and a half years in jail after she injured herself with a hammer to falsely claim she had been raped by a gang.She was previously found guilty on eight counts of doing acts tending and intended to pervert the course of justice after she accused five men of rape, leading to one being jailed and leaving others' lives in tatters.Williams was 16 when she made the first false claim she had been...

Keith Raniere, former leader of the controversial self-help group NXIVM, who was accused of branding members with his initials in a secret ceremony, is sentenced to 120 years in prison for sexually abusing his female followers.The alleged cult leader expressed no remorse for his actions.

Yesterday, a New York court sentenced former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez to 45 years in prison for trafficking hundreds of tons of cocaine into the United States. The sentence also included an $8 million fine, falling short of the life imprisonment that prosecutors had sought. Given Hernandez’s age of 55, this sentence likely means he will spend the rest of his life behind bars.Anti-Hernandez protesters gathered outside the Manhattan courthouse ahead o...