Inmate at a federal prison in Pa. dies after fight
Updated May 10, 2021;
ALLENWOOD A man serving a life term on murder and other charges from New York City has died after being injured in a fight at the Federal Correctional Institution at Allenwood.
Adrian Payne, 50, died at the Geisinger Medical Center near Danville where a prison spokesperson said he was taken with life-threatening injuries following the fight that occurred about 5 p.m. Saturday.
Montour County Coroner Scott Lynn said Payne died at 10:11 p.m. Saturday and an autopsy is scheduled to determine the cause.
The other inmate, who was not identified, suffered minor injuries and was treated at the scene, the spokesperson said.
May 5th, 2021
By Geoffrey Huchel
Infamous cocaine smuggler George Jung, nicknamed Boston George, died May 5, 2021. No cause of death has been revealed. He was 78.
George Jung was born on August 6, 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts. Jung graduated from Weymouth High School and then went to the University of Southern Mississippi. He studied for a degree in advertising but never completed his studies. Jung was a major figure in cocaine trade in the United States in the 1970s and early 1980s. He was part of the Medellin Cartel, headed by Pablo Escobar, which was responsible for up to 90% of the cocaine smuggled into the United States, which ultimately made him a millionaire. As an attempt to expand his profit margin, Jung also sold marijuana as part of his operation.
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Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is getting released to home confinement after serving less than a year of the six-and-a-half year sentence for corruption he began last August.
The Yeshiva World first reported this morning that Silver would be released under the CARES Act, which allows federal inmates to be released to home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic. “At this time the family is asking for privacy to deal with Mr. Silver s medical issues which he has some serious ones that are ongoing,” Rabbi Akiva Homnick of the criminal justice advocacy group Pidyon Shvuyai Yisroel told City & State, citing a conversation with an unnamed family member of the former speaker. “He s expected home momentarily.”
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Mike Stucka
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