Cruise ship captain gets 16 years in prison

Thursday, February 12, 2015

GROSSETO, Italy -- The captain of the capsized Costa Concordia cruise ship was convicted and sentenced Wednesday to 16 years and one month in prison for counts of manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning ship in the 2012 disaster that killed 32 people.

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