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Elon Musk's X refused to hand over users’ details to police after Southport riots

The US tech billionaire has frequently used the social media platform to attack the UK Government for imprisoning people for social media posts

Evening Standard

Fact check: New sentencing guidelines were written by independent body

The guidelines say courts should always order a pre-sentence report when considering a prison term ‘unless it considers that it is unnecessary’.

Evening Standard

Probation for man who sexually assaulted and disfigured woman in front of her daughter

The suspect declared “I am Jesus” while he attacked his victim in broad daylight in front of her 13-year-old daughter

The Independent UK

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Donald Trump gives me hope my father will be released, Jimmy Lai’s son says

Mr Trump claimed last year he would ‘100 per cent’ get the 77-year-old pro-democracy activist out of prison

The Independent UK

Briton held without trial in India refuses to be bailed to ‘unsafe’ streets: ‘Delhi is just a bigger prison’

Citing security concerns and past threats to his life, Michel insists he feels safer inside New Delhi’s Tihar Jail, where he has been held for over six years without trial

The Independent UK

FTX's SBF Claims Democrats Abandoned Him Despite Donations, Says Diddy Was 'Kind' In Tucker Carlson Podcast

Sam Bankman-Fried appeared in the latest episode of Tucker Carlson's X show, revealing Sean "Diddy" Combs had been "kind" to him in prison. He also shared his thoughts on being "abandoned" by the Democrats he helped ahead of the FTX collapse.

International Business Times

Just Stop Oil activists who plotted M25 protest chaos win bid to cut record-breaking prison terms

Judges agreed to cut the jail terms for the M25 protest plotters

Evening Standard

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South Korea’s impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol leaves prison and bows to supporters

TV footage shows South Korea's impeached Yoon Suk Yeol coming out of prison

The Independent UK

Gypsy-Rose Blanchard Warns Luigi Mangione About Fan Letters: ‘A Lot Of Weirdos Out There’

Gypsy Rose Blanchard has responded to a TMZ reporter asking her about her thoughts on Luigi Mangione's viral letter.

Pedestrian.tv

SBF tells Carlson about life in prison

The man behind FTX shared what its like to spend time with rapper-mogul Diddy in a Tucker Carlson interview

Salon

New York's Illegal Prison Guard Strike Challenges Law Limiting the Use of Solitary Confinement

It's also a reminder of the disarray that ensues from strikes put on by state employees, who hold monopolies on public goods.

Reason

Murderer whose conviction made legal history ‘should be moved to open prison’

William Dunlop was brought to justice after his victim’s mother campaigned for more than a decade to get the double jeopardy law changed.

Evening Standard

Death by firing squad set to resume in the US – but no matter the method, all means of execution come with a troubling history

Barring any late developments, the U.S. is set to see its first execution by firing squad in 15 years on March 7, 2025.

The Conversation

China’s conviction of 1,500 prisoners of conscience a ‘crime against humanity’

Report by rights group claims Beijing disproportionately targets women activists, Tibetans and Uyghurs through arbitrary detention

The Independent UK

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The Independent UK

Privately run immigration detention center that previously held families in Texas will reopen

A private prison company says it will reopen an immigrant detention facility in Texas that previously held families with children for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement CoreCivic announced the contract with ICE and the city of Dilley on Wednesday

Latin Times

White Supremacist Facing Life in Prison for Attempted Murder. He's Already Serving 2 Life Sentences

A high-ranking leader in the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang who is already serving two life sentences faces a third after allegedly stabbing state prison guards.

The Conversation

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.

The Guardian - UK

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

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The Independent 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

The Guardian - US

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 Independent UK

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

The Independent UK

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

Latin Times

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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