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LA man faces 8 years in prison for ‘spitting at an ICE agent’ after being charged with assaulting a federal employee

Omar Pulido Bastida was charged with assaulting a federal employee after spitting in an ICE agents face.

The Independent UK

Judge Throws Book At Colorado Funeral Home Director After Admitting to Storing Body in Hearse For Over a Year

A Denver man who stored a dead body in a hearse for more than a year was sentenced to 18 months in prison.

Latin Times

OneFour on prison, police and their long-awaited debut: ‘We wouldn’t be who we are today if we didn’t go through that’

The western Sydney rappers have come through street violence, jail time and a lot of police attention. With their first album, they’re ready to change the message

The Guardian - AU

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Family Members Of Venezuelans Deported To El Salvador's Mega-Prison Demand Proof of Life

Family members of Venezuelans deported to El Salvador's infamous CECOT mega-prison are demanding proof of life of their loved ones

Latin Times

World’s first prisoner of war camp ‘saved for the nation’

The Cambridgeshire site was once home to 7,000 French Prisoners

The Independent UK

Brickbat: Two-Tiered Justice

A federal judge sentenced Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Douglas Kirk to four months in prison after he was allowed… The post Brickbat: Two-Tiered Justice appeared first on Reason.com.

Reason

Territory's prison lockdowns surge amid crime crackdown

A territory's crime crackdown and tough new bail laws have led to a surge in lockdowns in an overcrowded and understaffed prison system.

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Site of first purpose-built prisoner of war camp saved by Historic England funding

Norman Cross prison in Cambridgeshire was home to up to 7,000 inmates during French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars

The Guardian - UK

‘Prison was the first place we felt sisterhood’: six women return to the ruins of Holloway

In an astonishing new documentary, former inmates go back to the cells that once held them – and reflect on what led them there in the first place. The result is a powerful indictment of our justice system

The Guardian - UK

‘The idea was to crush his spirit’: family of jailed British-Egyptian man describe awful prison conditions

As Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s mother remains on hunger strike, supporters say activist’s continued detention is campaign of vengeance by Egypt’s president

The Guardian - UK

A bid for bail by former New Jersey US Sen. Menendez is rejected by appeals court as prison looms

A bid for bail by former U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez while he appeals his bribery conviction was rejected by a federal appeals court

The Independent UK

Israeli gunfire, strikes kill 120 Palestinians in Gaza, many at aid sites

Palestinian death toll in Israel’s genocidal war surpasses 55,000 amid ongoing bombardment and killings at aid sites.

Al Jazeera

Watch Me Whip rapper sentenced to 30 years in prison for killing his cousin

Rapper behind viral ‘Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)’ hit, pleaded guilty but mentally ill to murdering his cousin

The Independent UK

Disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein again found guilty of an assault - but acquitted on other sex charges

Weinstein, 73, decided not to testify in his defense

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R Kelly files request for release from prison citing murder plot against him

Singer’s lawyer said Aryan Brotherhood and prison officials were plotting to kill him, and asked for home confinement

The Independent UK

British woman facing 20 years in prison in Indonesia for ‘smuggling cocaine in Angel Delight’ insists she was framed

Lisa Ellen Stocker was arrested alongside her partner Jonathan Chistopher Collyer when they entered Bali in February

Evening Standard

Al Qaida-inspired student who stabbed MP can be freed from prison – Parole Board

Roshonara Choudhry, then 21, was jailed for life for a minimum of 15 years for stabbing MP Sir Stephen Timms twice in the stomach in May 2010.

The Guardian - AU

Tane’s son still asks his grandmother: ‘How did my dad die?’ She doesn’t know what to say

More than 100 Indigenous Australians have died in custody by hanging since the 1991 royal commission. Experts say the numbers are a ‘blight on Australia’

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The Independent UK

R Kelly’s lawyers seek release from custody over claims prison officials are trying to have him killed

Disgraced R&B singer is currently serving a 20-year and 30-year sentence concurrently

Newslaundry

Acquitted in 2 cases, but a former terror suspect is a lifetime prisoner of suspicion

At 12.48 pm on May 13, 2025, Abdul Wahid Shaikh stood at the threshold of academic triumph. After years of struggle, the 47-year-old school teacher was finally submitting his PhD thesis on “prison literature” at Mahatma Gandhi Mission University in Maharashtra’s Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar. A man who had spent nine years…

The Independent UK

Watch: Trump says people who burn the American flag ‘should go to jail for a year’

Donald Trump says that anyone who burns the American flag should be thrown in prison.

The Independent UK

Trump preparing to send thousands of immigrants including Europeans to Guantanamo military prison: reports

Foreign nationals from the UK, Ireland, France and Germany could be transferred to notorious naval base

The Guardian - UK

Surviving Syria’s Prisons review – consistently shocking and unforgettably moving

This chilling film takes two activist brothers back to the hellish jails where they were held for almost a decade. Then it goes further – and tracks down the soldiers who tortured for the Assad regime

The Independent UK

Argentina's Supreme Court upholds prison sentence for ex-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

Argentina’s Supreme Court has upheld the six-year prison sentence on corruption charges for former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

The Independent UK

Foster parents accused of murdering their 3-year-old daughter who has autism and claiming her injuries were from a fall

Raymond Johnson, 62, and Jamie Johnson, 44, face life in prison if convicted of the murder of their foster daughter.

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