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The Latest Breaking News from Prison

More than 2,000 jobs axed as UK prison builder ISG collapses

Administrators EY confirm construction company, involved in 69 live government projects, has ceased trading

The Guardian - UK

Holocaust survivor marks 80th birthday with protest outside Israeli prison

Prof Veronika Cohen holds vigil with friends to draw attention to poor treatment of Palestinian prisoners

The Guardian - UK

Iran’s supreme leader pardons almost 3,000 prisoners including 40 foreigners

At least 40 foreign nationals pardoned by Ali Khamenei on Prophet Mohammed’s birth anniversary

The Independent UK

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The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

We Solve Murders by Richard Osman; Guide Me Home by Attica Locke; Five By Five by Claire Wilson; The Night of Baba Yaga by Akira Otani; I Died at Fallow Hall by Bonnie Burke-Patel

The Guardian - UK

Texas prisons and jails are recruiting more teenagers to shore up guard shortage

Two counties house training programs in local high schools as officials pitch corrections jobs as gateways to criminal justice careers.

The Texas Tribune

The downfall of Putin is inevitable, says freed dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza

Exclusive: Key British-Russian activist tells Tom Watling that even if he and other opposition leaders are killed, others will come in their place to challenge Putin, as he thanked The Independent for reporting his plight

The Independent UK

Farage says Tory brand is ‘bust’ as other Reform UK speeches target immigrants, drag queens, vegans and more – as it happened

Lee Anderson, Richard Tice and Nigel Farage give speeches at Reform party conference

The Guardian - UK

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Minister admits prisoners released early without electronic tags

Jess Phillips said she was ‘apoplectic’ government contracts for electronic tags had ‘enormous backlog’

The Independent UK

South Carolina prepares for first execution in 13 years

South Carolina is set to execute its first inmate in 13 years after an unintended pause because the state could not obtain the drugs needed for lethal injections

The Independent UK

Former Bad Boy rapper Shyne says Diddy ‘destroyed my life’ over nightclub shooting

Shyne was in prison for nearly a decade after the 1999 shooting involving Diddy and then-girlfriend Jennifer Lopez

The Independent UK

Riot inside Massachusetts prison leaves five guards injured including two with stab wounds

One corrections officer stabbed 12 times in the back but survived

The Independent UK

Chinese Man Becomes First to Be Imprisoned Under New Anti-Sedition Law. His Crime Was Wearing a T-Shirt

A man was sentenced to more than a year in prison for wearing a shirt the Hong Kong government deems a danger to national security under its new anti-sedition law.

Latin Times

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs joins list of Hollywood stars charged with sex crimes

With his arrest this week, Sean “Diddy” Combs joins a short list of celebrities prosecuted for sex crimes in the wake of the #MeToo movement

The Independent UK

Attempted prison escape in Honduras leaves 2 inmates dead and 3 injured

Authorities in Honduras say that an attempted prisonbreak left two inmates dead and three injured

The Independent UK

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The Independent UK

Kremlin prisoner-swap exclusive: How I survived 11 months in Putin’s gulag

Vladimir Kara-Murza, one of the faces of Russian opposition to Putin alongside Evan Gershkovich, sits down with The Independent for the first time since being freed in a historic prisoner swap. Tom Watling reports

The Guardian - UK

‘Hundreds’ of prisoners freed early in England and Wales not fitted with tags

Serco says it is working to fit electronic devices, which were a condition of early release of 1,700 last week

The Independent UK

Martha Stewart spills real reason Ina Garten and her lost touch while she was in prison

Stewart and Garten first met inside the latter’s gourmet food store in East Hampton, New York

Latin Times

Former Mexican Councilwoman Sentenced for Smuggling Cocaine into the U.S. Claims She Was Threatened

A judge sentenced her to three years in prison describing her as "low-level drug mule."

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Latin Times

El Chapo's wife Emma Coronel to Debut as an International Model at Milan Fashion Week

After two and a half years in prison, El Chapo Guzmán's wife Emma Coronel debuts as a model in prestigious Milan Fashion Week

The Conversation

How a doubling of sentence lengths helped pack England’s prisons to the rafters

Around 1,750 prisoners in England and Wales were recently released early, the first part of the government’s plan to solve the prison overcrowding crisis.

International Business Times

CIA Officer Filmed Himself Sexually Assaulting Dozens of Unconscious Women Around the World

Brian Jeffrey Raymond, who pleaded guilty to various counts of sexual abuse, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for his crimes against women.

France 24

Filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof on fleeing Iran after making a movie in secret

In this arts24 episode, we talk to fugitive director Mohammad Rasoulof about his powerful Iranian film “The Seed of the Sacred Fig”, a brazen and startling picture about the misogyny and theocracy in his country. The director had to flee Iran where he was sentenced to prison for his filmmaking.…

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Two Officers Stabbed By Inmates At Massachusetts Prison

Two correctional officers stabbed by inmates at Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Massachusetts, prompting calls for increased safety measures.

Latin Times

CIA Officer Who Filmed Himself Sexually Assaulting Dozens of Unconscious Women Around the World Sentenced to Decades in Prison

Brian Jeffrey Raymond, who pleaded guilty to various counts of sexual abuse, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for his crimes against women.

The Independent UK

Inmates stab correctional officers at a Massachusetts prison

A spokesperson says two correctional officers were stabbed by inmates and three others were injured at a Massachusetts maximum security prison

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