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Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal

Brotherly crooks, dueling bourbons, and a law from 1785.

Reason

What to know about the controversial practice of ‘orgasmic meditation’

The practice touted by Nicole Daedone combined spirituality, mindfulness and sexuality. Then came the controversy – and prison sentence

The Guardian - US

How the number of young people facing lengthy prison sentences almost doubled in a decade

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Number of young adults facing life behind bars or indeterminate sentences almost doubles in a decade

Exclusive: Increasing numbers of 18-20-year-olds are being handed long-term sentences which are often equal to or longer than their age, a report warns

The Independent UK

How ‘blind panic’ exposed prison inmates and staff to dangerous radon gas

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The Independent UK

How the Ministry of Justice knowingly exposed hundreds to cancer-causing gas in Dartmoor prison

SPECIAL REPORT: Exclusive: In the midst of a growing prison overcrowding crisis, men were piled into HMP Dartmoor. Officials had been warned parts of the ageing Victorian prison were filled with dangerous levels of a toxic gas linked to 1,100 lung cancer deaths each year. But in its desperate scramble…

The Independent UK

‘I will not yield’: Taiwan convulsed by 17-year prison sentence for populist opposition figure

The opposition Taiwan People’s party stands by founder Ko Wen-je despite sentence, alleging prosecutors were pressured by ruling DPP party

The Guardian - AU

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Corrupt prison guard and gang jailed over smuggling operation

The officer has been jailed for four and a half years after helping smuggle drugs, phones and USB sticks into a London jail

Evening Standard

Judge blocks deportation of man wrongfully convicted of murder

An Indian citizen, Subramanyam Vedam, may be released from ICE custody after a judge cleared the way, following the overturning of his Pennsylvania murder conviction after four decades in prison.

The Independent UK

Single Gesture Could Land Tourist, 29, In Prison For Years Under Anti-Racism Laws

“It was an emotional reaction. I never imagined the gravity of it all," said lawyer Agostina Páez, charged with racial defamation.

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Leading Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh detained in Tehran

Sotoudeh, 64, is renowned for defending activists, opposition politicians, and women prosecuted for removing their headscarves

The Independent UK

Prolific Easter egg thief who was found by police ‘cowering inside base of divan bed’ jailed

Daniel Jones, 38, was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment at Chelmsford Crown Court

The Independent UK

German artist sentenced to prison by Russian court for carnival display mocking Putin

Jacques Tilly has been designing and building floats for Düsseldorf’s Carnival parade, one of Germany’s best-known, since 1984.

Euronews

Rapper Pooh Shiesty and his father arrested after FBI raids family home

Rapper previously served three years in prison and was released last October

The Independent UK

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The Independent UK

FBI raids rapper Pooh Shiesty’s family home in Memphis months after prison release

Memphis rapper served three years in prison after pleading guilty to a firearms conspiracy charge in 2022

The Guardian - UK

‘Everyone is thinking about oil prices’: is Iran using the war to hide a surge in executions?

Regime has long used the death penalty to suppress dissent but now appears to be withholding information on the killing of hundreds of prisoners, say rights groups

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Fetty Wap made 7 songs for new album during jail stint but he didn't write them down

Singer and rapper Fetty Wap has told how he had to sing seven new songs, for his new album Zavier, over and over again in his head during his recent time behind bars, because he doesn't write music down.

AAP

Neo-Nazi forced offline after alleged threats to MPs

A neo-Nazi has been ordered to stay off social media and away from two female federal politicians after allegedly targeting them in online posts.

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The Conversation

Offenders serving community sentences are more likely to keep jobs, earn more – new research

When should offenders be sent to prison and when is it better to keep them in the community under close supervision?

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Jen Shah Claims Ghislaine Maxwell Showed ‘No Remorse’ For Epstein Victims In Bombshell Interview

Former Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Jen Shah has painted a chilling picture of life inside federal prison with Ghislaine Maxwell.

The Times of India

China ‘secretly sentences’ Tibetan monk to 7 years, raises rights concerns

A Tibetan monk detained in Lhasa in 2021 was secretly sentenced to seven years in prison by Chinese authorities, according to a report by Tibet Times (TT), cited by ANI, raising fresh concerns over alleged rights violations in Tibet.

The Independent UK

A former New York prison guard is found guilty of manslaughter in an inmate’s fatal beating

A former corrections officer has been found guilty of manslaughter in the fatal beating of an inmate at Mid-State Correctional Facility in upstate New York

The Independent UK

Real Housewives star Jen Shah says she and Elizabeth Holmes were assigned ‘poop duty together’ in prison

Shah was released in December from Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas, where Holmes and Ghislaine Maxwell were also housed

The Conversation

Brutal Mau Mau camps in Kenya were an extension of Britain’s colonial prison system – historian traces their roots

During the Mau Mau uprising between 1952 and 1960, the British colonial government confined an estimated 150,000 Kenyans in a sprawling network of “emergency” detention camps.

The Guardian - AU

Politician alleges NSW Corrections illegally snooped on her calls with prisoners

Exclusive: Greens MLC Sue Higginson tells parliament that Corrective Services knew things ‘which made it very clear they had monitored our conversation’

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