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What’s behind Erdoğan’s calculated shift on Kurds and its potential consequences

On March 1, the start of the holy month of Ramadan — observed by most of Turkey’s Sunni population — the imprisoned leader of the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Abdullah Öcalan, made a historic call for the party to disarm and end its 40-year-long armed struggle against the Turkish state.

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Pregnant offenders in England and Wales could be spared jail under new guidelines

Changes to sentencing guidance will also apply to mothers of children under one year old

The Guardian - UK

A South African play about Winnie Madikizela-Mandela explores Black women's long wait for absent men

A new play about anti-apartheid icon Winnie Madikizela-Mandela seeks to highlight the struggles of Black women in South Africa who had to wait years for their husbands’ return from exile, prison or faraway work during decades of white minority rule

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Exile is ‘a little bit less than death’ for lawyer forced to flee Guatemala

Virginia Laparra spent two years in prison after reporting her suspicion that a judge leaked sealed details of a case

The Guardian - US

While our eyes are on the welfare state’s destruction, Trump is building a police state

Republicans aren’t simply shrinking the government. They’re investing billions in defense, border control and prisons

The Guardian - US

Ban criminals from pubs and sports games instead of sending them to prison, minister suggests

The courts minister confirmed ministers will look at banning criminals from sports games, pubs and social events in a bid to free up prison spaces

The Independent UK

Lori Vallow says heavenly premonition has her convinced she will be ‘exonerated’ for murdering her kids, in first interview from prison

Lori Vallow Daybell was sentenced in 2023 to life in prison for the murders of her two children, Tylee Ryan and Joshua ‘JJ’ Vallow, and conspiring to kill her husband Chad Daybell’s former wife, Tammy Daybell

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15 prison staffers placed on leave following inmate death in New York

Fifteen prison staffers have been placed on leave following the death of an inmate in New York state

The Independent UK

Florida Dad Who Executed 5-Year-Old Girl With 'Precise, Deliberate Shots' Claims He is 'Good Person' in Court

A Florida dad was sentenced to life in prison for shooting his two children, despite his assertion that he was a "good person."

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Harvey Weinstein Breaks Silence On Adrien Brody’s Message To His Children In Oscars Speech

Harvey Weinstein shared his comments on Adrien Brody's Oscars speech mentioning his children and ex-wife. The post Harvey Weinstein Breaks Silence On Adrien Brody’s Message To His Children In Oscars Speech first appeared on Bored Panda.

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Prison officer who boasted about sex acts with inmates is jailed

The judge outlined the issues prisons are having with accommodating inmates serving short sentences

The Independent UK

A Way Out is a gritty co-op game that challenged me to make the right choice in a world full of bad ones

A Way Out is a drama-filled co-op game from Hazelight Studios that asks players to orchestrate a prison break – and deal with the immediate ensuing consequences.

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Foreign Criminals to Be Deported Faster in Immigration Crackdown

The deportation of foreign criminals will be accelerated as part of a government-led immigration crackdown aimed at alleviating overcrowding in prisons.

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Father in jail for 13 years for stealing a phone suffers crisis which leaves him smashing face on floor

Exclusive: A crunch meeting will decide if IPP prisoner Thomas White will finally be transferred to a secure hospital after a rapid deterioration inside HMP Manchester

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Taiwanese man who killed ‘bully’ flatmate sentenced to 8 years in jail

Court upholds prison sentence for man who killed his flatmate with a knife

The Independent UK

Keir Starmer urged to push for Jimmy Lai’s release as marathon cross-examination finally ends

Media tycoon’s son says Lai’s health has been failing in prison

The Independent UK

How South Carolina's execution of a condemned killer by firing squad will unfold

Three volunteer South Carolina prison employees will be the firing squad used to execute condemned killer Brad Sigmon on Friday

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'Inadequate' sentence appealed after five die in crash

Prosecutors have confirmed they will appeal a five-and-a-half-year prison term handed down to a driver who killed five people and a dog.

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NYC daycare owner sentenced to 45 years after toddler’s fentanyl death

The daycare center was operated out of a Bronx apartment where the owner stored and packaged narcotics

The Independent UK

A federal inmate transferred to Oklahoma to be put to death

A former federal prison inmate is now in Oklahoma custody as the state seeks to execute him for a 1999 killing in Tulsa

The Guardian - US

US woman sentenced to a year in prison for shooting terminally ill husband

Ellen Gilland was arrested in January 2023 after killing her husband, Jerry Gilland, 77, in his Florida hospital room

The Independent UK

Woman who claimed she had cancer murdered husband with lethal injection to cover up her Ponzi scheme

Former pharmacist Natalie Cochran was sentenced to life in prison for murdering Michael Cochran by administering him fatal dose of insulin

The Independent UK

Some New York prison guards are fired for ignoring a deal to end their illegal strike

A wildcat strike by New York state prison guards has stretched into a third week, prompting officials to start firing workers for failing to abide by a deal to end the illegal labor action

The Independent UK

Man convicted of assault after pulling knife on postal worker because he was mad about Kamala Harris ads

Russell Frank Valleau, 62, faces up to 12 months in prison for the attack

The Conversation

What is Tren de Aragua? How the Venezuelan gang started − and why US policies may only make it stronger

When the U.S. government deported 177 Venezuelans on Feb. 20, 2025, the Department of Homeland Security alleged that 80 of the deportees were members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.

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