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‘Jeopardy!’ champion and NYC teacher is arrested on child porn charges

The 37-year-old previously spent five months in prison after stealing $300,000 from an elderly couple

The Independent UK

President Biden Signs Bill To Strengthen Federal Prison Oversight

President Biden signs bill to enhance oversight of federal Bureau of Prisons, addressing corruption and abuse.

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Biden signs bill strengthening oversight of crisis-plagued federal Bureau of Prisons

President Joe Biden has signed into law a bill strengthening oversight of the crisis-plagued federal Bureau of Prisons after reporting by The Associated Press exposed systemic corruption, failures and abuse in the federal prison system

The Independent UK

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After pleading guilty to evading nearly $300,000 in taxes, the artist for one of the best mystery manga in years dodges prison time on suspended sentence

Square Enix will not be cancelling The Apothecary Diaries manga

GamesRadar

Croatia bans 3 Montenegro officials in diplomatic row over WWII death camp

Ban comes after Montenegrin lawmakers adopted a resolution to remember people killed in Jasenovac prison camp.

Al Jazeera

Sunak rejected advice to release prisoners early a year ago

Discussions took place in June 2023 but aides thought backbenchers would reject proposal to ease overcrowding

The Guardian - UK

Palestinian prisoners freed by Israel say they were tortured, threatened

Two women and six men were released from Ofer Prison and were taken to Al-Aqsa Hospital in central Gaza.

Al Jazeera

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Prisoners fight against working in heat on former slave plantation, raising hope for change in South

As daily temperatures hit record highs across much of the South, a federal judge has taken an unusual step, challenging the treatment of mostly Black incarcerated workers in the fields

The Independent UK

Violence, self-harm and drugs: Shock new figures lay bare crisis facing Britain’s prisons

Ministry of Justice (MoJ) figures on Thursday laid bare the scale of the chaos in UK prisons, days after the justice secretary announced emergency measures to ease the crisis

The Independent UK

Met Police officer exposed as serial rapist to serve at least 18 years in prison

Cliff Mitchell boasted that he would never be caught

Evening Standard

In numbers: Rise in prison violence laid bare in new figures

Prison assaults have reached a post-Covid-19 pandemic high

The Independent UK

Paula Radcliffe says sorry for wishing Paris Olympics convicted child rapist ‘best of luck’

Beach volleyball player Steven van de Velde, now 29, was sentenced to four years in prison in 2016 after pleading guilty to raping the 12-year-old girl when he was 19

Evening Standard

Takeaways from an investigation into deaths of over 50 Ukrainian POWs in a barracks 2 years ago

Former Ukrainian prisoners of war who survived the explosions two years ago in the Russian-held barracks at Olenivka still puzzle over the strange events leading up to that night

The Independent UK

An explosion killed over 50 Ukrainian POWs in 2022. Survivors and an internal UN report blame Russia

Former Ukrainian prisoners of war who survived the explosions two years ago in the Russian-held barracks at Olenivka still puzzle over the strange events leading up to that night

The Independent UK

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Tennessee Woman Sentenced For Disrupting NYC Reproductive Health Center

Woman sentenced to prison for disrupting a health center, citing religious beliefs and past trauma.

The Independent UK

New evidence means freedom for a Michigan man who spent 37 years in prison for a murder conviction

A man who served nearly 40 years in prison for a Detroit-area murder won’t face another trial

The Conversation

Why courts favour cars, not the climate

For planning to block a motorway encircling London, five Just Stop Oil activists were recently sentenced to a minimum of four years in prison.

The Independent UK

A prominent Myanmar Christian leader is released from prison for a second time in 4 months

A prominent Christian church leader and human rights advocate from Myanmar’s Kachin ethnic minority was released from prison earlier this week

The Independent UK

Police hunt Pharrell Williams, 20, wanted on recall to prison

Avon and Somerset Police have issued an appeal for his arrest on recall to prison

The Independent UK

Free up probation officers ahead of wave of prisoner releases, say experts

Ministers urged to overhaul ‘failing’ system and bring all probation staff back into the community to supervise offenders freed early under emergency overcrowding scheme

The Texas Tribune

Big price cut ordered for inmate phone and video calls across Texas

A new FCC rule means a cap of 5 cents a minute for most inmate phone and video calls in the state of Texas.

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