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Van der Sloot Indicted for Extortion in Holloway Case

(June 30) -- A U.S. federal grand jury today indicted Joran van der Sloot, the Dutch native arrested earlier this month on suspicion of murdering a Peruvian woman, on charges of wire fraud and extortion. He is accused of soliciting money from the mother of Natalee Holloway, an American teen who vanished in Aruba five years...

Van der Sloot Chooses Isolated Cell in Peru Prison

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IMA, Peru (June 19) -- A prison compound on the dusty outskirts of Peru's capital is home to hundreds of convicts from Peru's leftist insurgency of the 1980s and 90s. It holds more than 80 foreign inmates, mostly Colombians and Mexicans there for drug-related crimes. And then there is Joran van der Sloot. The...

Prison in Peru Could Be a Nightmare for Dutchman

(June 15) -- Last week, a Peruvian judge ordered Joran van der Sloot, the young Dutchman charged in the killing of a 21-year-old Peruvian woman, held in Miguel Castro Castro, a maximum-security prison on the outskirts of Lima. The move was surprising to legal analysts who expected van der Sloot to be incarcerated in...

Background on Miguel Castro Castro

The National Penitentiary Institute of Peru (Spanish: Instituto Nacional Penitenciario, INPE) is the government agency charged with incarcerating convicts and suspects charged with crimes.

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