A simple Google search of Michal Preclik’s name turns up an Interpol wanted poster from his native Czech Republic. So where was he arrested? In Nebraska’s maximum-security prison, where he was not an inmate, but a guard.

Preclik had worked at the prison for a year and his arrest came just two months after officials at Tecumseh State Correctional Institution promoted the 32-year-old to corporal. Prison officials learned last month that he was wanted on suspicion of drug and fraud crimes.

The electronic wanted poster, which shows his mug shot, went up on Interpol’s Web site exactly a year before his arrest. The poster is the first Web link that appears when Googling Preclik’s name.

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Bernie “The Bruiser” Madoff got into a prison-yard tussle with a fellow inmate.

By inmates’ accounts, the 71-year-old Ponzi schemer came out the winner.

Let’s start with who Bernie Madoff is: Madoff was an American financier and chairman of the NASDAQ Stock Exchange. In the late 90’s concerns were raised about his business practices, but nothing happened for years. Finally in 2009 at the end of an extensive investigation and trial Madoff plead guilty to 11 federal charges, including securities fraud, wire fraud, mail fraud, money laundering, perjury and making false filings with the SEC.

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Indiana Court: Jail Sex Not a Crime

The Indiana Court of Appeals says six inmates at the Greene County Jail didn’t commit a crime when they sneaked into each other’s cells to have sex.

The 2-1 ruling upheld Greene Superior Court Judge Dena Martin’s decision dismissing escape charges against three men and three women. Martin ruled the inmates didn’t commit a crime because they didn’t intend to leave the jail.

Two appellate judges agreed, but Judge Ezra Friedlander issued a lengthy dissent Wednesday, reasoning that the inmates committed escape because they left the cells where they were ordered confined.

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