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Pope Leo uses special Mass to highlight prison overcrowding

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The Independent UK · Dec 14, 2025

Pope criticises prison overcrowding during special service for inmates

Pope Leo XIV also highlighted insufficient inmate rehabilitation at the event

The Independent UK · Dec 14, 2025

Jeffrey Manchester Roofman Explained: How the True Story Was Darker Than the Film

Jeffrey Manchester's Roofman true story is darker than the film. Here's what really happened behind the Paramount+ crime drama.

International Business Times UK · Dec 14, 2025

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Nobel Peace Prize laureate and others who took on Belarus' president are among the freed prisoners

Belarusian authorities have freed 123 prisoners, including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski and key opposition figures Maria Kolesnikova and Viktar Babaryka, as part of a deal with Washington that lifted U.S. sanctions on the Eastern European country’s vital fertilizer exports

The Independent UK · Dec 13, 2025

Belarus frees political dissidents Bialiatski, Kolesnikova and others

Belarusian street protest leader Maria Kolesnikova and Nobel Prize winner Ales Bialiatski walked free on Saturday with 121 other political prisoners, released in an unprecedented US-brokered deal, rights groups announced.

Radio France Internationale · Dec 13, 2025

$40 billion-plus crypto fraud scheme results in 15-year prison sentence for its creator — nine criminal counts include wire fraud and money laundering

Terra Project's crypto mogul Do Kwon jailed for 15 years

Tom’s Hardware · Dec 13, 2025

Sarkozy prison memoir a bid to ‘control the story’ and protect image for political future

One month after Nicolas Sarkozy walked out of prison, the former French president's new book Diary of a Prisoner, recounting his 20 days behind bars, was released this week. Philippe Moreau-Chevrolet, a political communication specialist at Sciences Po Paris, tells RFI this is no simple memoir, but rather a calculated…

Radio France Internationale · Dec 13, 2025

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She spent years trying to uncover a serial killer’s motive. Then she got too close

Exclusive video: Journalist Laura Greenberg started corresponding with serial killer Doug Gretzler when he was on death row because she “wanted to understand the monster”. But then things got murky. Andrea Cavallier reports

The Independent UK · Dec 12, 2025

“This Is Disgusting”: 5-Month-Old Passes Away After Parents’ “Pseudoscience” Goes Tragically Wrong

Misinformed diet claims the life of Arizona infant, parents could spend life in prison.

Bored Panda · Dec 12, 2025

In 2018, France’s most notorious gangster concocted a genius plan to escape prison, all he’d need was was guns, smoke bombs, and a helicopter

Rédoine Faïd somehow had the whole of France cheering him on with his bold escape strategy.

We Got This Covered · Dec 12, 2025

Nobel peace prize laureate Narges Mohammadi arrested in Iran

Mohammadi ‘violently’ detained along with other activists at memorial event in Mashhad, her foundation says

The Guardian - UK · Dec 12, 2025

Iranian Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi ‘violently detained’ at memorial for dead human rights lawyer

A foundation in her name said she was detained at a memorial for a human rights lawyer recently found dead under disputed circumstances

The Independent UK · Dec 12, 2025

American grandmother arrested in the Bahamas after ‘accidentally’ bringing gun and ammo on cruise

Mary Robinson, 69, could have been imprisoned at the Bahamas for two years after she was found carrying a gun in her purse

The Independent UK · Dec 12, 2025

Crypto king Do Kwon jailed for 15 years over $40bn stablecoin fraud

The co-founder of cryptocurrency firm Terraform Labs was sentenced to 15 years in prison after a US court found that his $40bn stablecoin ecosystem was sustained by fraud.

Euronews · Dec 12, 2025

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Evening Standard · Dec 12, 2025

Trans stalker tells judge 'I'm a female' in demand for switch to women's prison

Vivienne Taylor, 28, is currently in custody awaiting sentence for the pursuit of Tina Rashid

The Independent UK · Dec 12, 2025

Half of people arrested in London could have undiagnosed ADHD, study finds

Neurodivergent individuals – particularly autistic people and those with ADHD – are overrepresented within prison populations, according to research

The Guardian - UK · Dec 12, 2025

Crypto mogul Do Kwon sentenced to 15 years in prison for fraud

Co-founder of Singapore-based Terraform Labs given more jail time by US judge than prosecutors sought

Reason · Dec 12, 2025

Brickbat: Killer Cop

Former Memphis, Tennessee, police officer Patric J. Ferguson has been sentenced to 38 years in federal prison after admitting to… The post Brickbat: Killer Cop appeared first on Reason.com.

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Evening Standard · Dec 12, 2025

OPINION - Like Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, I was falsely imprisoned and tortured in jail in Iran: this is my story

Kylie Moore-Gilbert shares her harrowing experience of being held in captivity in Iran

AAP · Dec 12, 2025

Australia 'stained' by its treatment of child offenders

Australia has been slammed for its juvenile justice laws as UN experts sound the alarm over the growing number of people in prison without a sentence.

International Business Times UK · Dec 12, 2025

Tina Peters' Pardon Explained After Trump Announcement: What Did She Do and Why It Doesn't Free Her

Tina Peters stays in state prison despite Trump's pardon claim. Learn what she was convicted of and why federal pardons cannot overturn Colorado charges.

AAP · Dec 12, 2025

'Be careful': warning as ex-Marist brother jailed

A former Marist brother who molested a teen pupil in a school office 40 years ago has been told not to mention anything about his crimes if asked in prison.

AAP · Dec 12, 2025

Union ends statewide prison lockdown, court closures

Strike action that closed most of Adelaide's courtrooms and forced public prisons into a 96-hour lockdown has ended, as a union "considers options".

Axios · Dec 12, 2025

Trump says he's pardoned Tina Peters, but that may not save her from prison

Trump has no jurisdiction over state-level cases to offer the pardon.

The Conversation · Dec 11, 2025

Why whole-life imprisonment is rising in England and Wales

In England and Wales, whole-life imprisonment is the harshest sanction available to the courts, emerging in the decades after the abolition of the death penalty. The whole-life order requires people to spend their whole lives in prison with no prospect of release, except on exceptional compassionate grounds.

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