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'Harrowing' failures to track down horrific pedophile

Australia's worst pedophile should have been stopped long before he was finally caught and sentenced to life in prison, a review has found.

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Moving story of migrants in Tunisia scoops top prize at Marrakech Film Festival

Franco-Tunisian director Erige Sehiri won the Golden Star award at the Marrakech International Film Festival on Saturday evening for Promis le Ciel (Promised Sky), which tells the story of a group of Ivorian migrants struggling to make ends meet. She dedicated the prize to anti-racist activist Saadia Mosbah, who has…

Radio France Internationale

Probation is in perpetual crisis. Can it protect the public from tens of thousands more criminals on the streets?

SPECIAL REPORT : There is a danger the ailing Probation Service is being ‘set up to fail’, the chief inspector of probation has warned, as the nation prepares for the biggest justice system overhaul in a generation, Amy-Clare Martin reports

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Prison officer admits relationship with inmate after photo found

The 48-year-old tutor first met the inmate in the summer of 2023

The Independent UK

‘They can’t take away your imagination and creativity’: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe on how sewing helped her in Iran jail

Zaghari-Ratcliffe made clothes for her daughter while waiting for her eventual release. Now, the idea of creativity as a form of resistance is the theme of a new collaboration between London’s Imperial War Museum and the fabric department of Liberty.

The Guardian - UK

Trump DoJ ‘immediately’ stops enforcing prison rape protections for trans and intersex people, according to leaked memo

The Department of Justice instructed prison auditors across the country to simply stop assessing whether facilities are violating laws designed to shield LGBT+ prisoners from sexual abuse

The Independent UK

Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine sent back to prison after probation violation in gang case

This follows a 45-day sentence last year for similar supervised release violations

The Independent UK

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‘Help a broke man out’: Tiger King’s Joe Exotic is selling something bizarre from prison this Christmas, and fans are already asking how to sign up

The bars can’t stop his side hustle!

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DoJ moves to eliminate sexual abuse protections for LGBTQ+ people in prisons

Memo says the policy shift, which advocates call ‘reckless’, was designed to align with one of Trump’s anti-trans orders

The Guardian - US

Extradited Mexican Drug Kingpins Are Being Offered To Cooperate With U.S. Authorities Or Face Harsher Sentences In Prison: Report

According to the report, the extraditions were coldly calculated and planned by the Mexican government to avoid any setbacks. Prisoners had no idea where they were being sent, and the mission was carried out with the help of 2,000 Mexican special forces.

Latin Times

NHS nurse at London hospital faces the sack after calling transgender paedophile patient 'Mr'

When discussing the care of her patient, who was a convicted paedophile and an inmate at a high-security prison, Jennifer Melle referred to them using a male pronoun and title

Evening Standard

US Capitol pipe bomb suspect says he believed Trump’s 2020 election lie

Brian Cole Jr makes first court appearance charged with planting two devices on 5 January 2021 in Washington

The Guardian - US

Bangladesh tribunal issues arrest warrant against Sheikh Hasina’s son

American citizen Sajeeb Wazed faces charges of committing crimes against humanity

The Independent UK

How three Uyghur brothers fled China – to spend 12 years in an Indian prison

Arrested in 2013 on India’s Himalayan border after fleeing Beijing’s ‘genocide’ against Muslims in Xinjiang, the siblings have been imprisoned indefinitely ever since

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It is scarcely believable that so many in Britain are in detention indefinitely

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: At the current pace, it will take at least a decade for the 2,400 prisoners on IPP sentences to be freed, despite some having already served up to 22 times their original minimum tariff. The government must do more to speed up their release – and…

Latin Times

Haitian Gang Leader Sentenced To Life In Prisoin In The U.S. For Kidnapping Missionaires, Including a Baby

Germine Joly, leader of Haitian gang 400 Mawozo, has been sentenced to life in federal prison without parole for his role in the kidnapping of 16 U.S. citizens, including an eight-month old baby.

Radio France Internationale

Macron joins family's push to free jailed French journalist in Algeria

France is ramping up diplomatic efforts to secure the release of Christophe Gleizes, the French sports journalist handed a seven-year prison sentence in Algeria, with President Emmanuel Macron insisting he wants to see him home “as soon as possible”. Gleizes’s parents told RFI they hope to meet Macron as soon…

Evening Standard

Flyers complain about 'prison-like' meals on major airline

Passengers were not happy

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It Was Just an Accident review – Jafar Panahi’s urgent thriller should frighten us all

5/5 This Palme d’Or-winning drama arrives in the same week its director was handed a prison sentence

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Matthew Perry Ketamine Supplier Sentenced as Judge Faults Doctor for Betraying Oath

A former physician who supplied ketamine to Friends star Matthew Perry in the weeks before the actor died has been sentenced to 30 months in federal prison.

The Guardian - US

Trump has granted clemency to more than 1,800 people – and some have been arrested again

President did not follow the usual review process, experts say, making it more likely they would commit other crimes

The Independent UK

The Old Guard and Supergirl actor Matthias Schoenaerts sentenced to six months in prison

The actor has faced more than 10 convictions on driving-related offenses in Belgium

The Independent UK

‘Defending the indefensible’: Government ‘will have blood on their hands’ over indefinite jail terms

More prisoners will take their own lives unless action is taken to help those trapped in IPP jail terms, a former top judge has warned, after The Independent called for sentences to be reviewed

The Independent UK

Australia sentences ‘Asia’s El Chapo’ to 16 years in prison

Judge says ‘lighter’ sentence for Tse Chi Lop dictated by Australia’s extradition deal with Netherlands

Evening Standard

Prison population set to hit 100,000 a year later than projected – figures

Newly published estimates project the rise in the number of prisoners will reach between 98,000 and 103,6000 by March 2030.

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