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Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius up for parole Friday, 10 years after a killing that shocked the world

Oscar Pistorius could be granted parole on Friday after nearly 10 years in prison for killing his girlfriend

The Independent UK

Women in mental health crisis still being jailed in prisons deemed ‘unfit for purpose’, major review warns

Goverment failed to include plans to outlaw jailing vulnerable people ‘for their own protection’ in King’s Speech

The Independent UK

Uncertainty, hope for Palestinian, Israeli families before Gaza truce

Amid high tensions over captives-for-prisoners swap, far-right Israeli minister demands clampdown on celebrations.

Al Jazeera

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Two rowdy sheeters arrested under Goonda Act, sent to Kalaburagi

Two rowdy sheeters, Chetan, 36, and Bhakshi, 27, arrested under Goonda Act and sent to Central Prison at Kalaburgi for one year. Both had multiple cases involving heinous crimes like murder, kidnapping, assault, etc. Despite opportunities to reform, they continued criminal activities. Sent to prison for one year as per…

The Hindu

Manhunt launched after Scottish prisoner escapes from custody

POLICE are searching for a prisoner who escaped custody while under escort in Scotland ...

The National (Scotland)

Tetraplegic terror offender jailed for six years

A partially paralysed offender has been sentenced to six years' jail for planning terrorist acts while already incarcerated in a maximum security prison.

AAP

Prisons boss rejects blame for ex-guard's sex crimes

A break-down in prison processes has been blamed for a former guard's persistent sexual abuse of female inmates at an inquiry into the crimes.

AAP

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Damien Linnane's emotional memoir oozing with raw truth

Newcastle law student and prison mental health advocate Damien Linnane has launched his memoir.

Newcastle Herald

Goosebumps alert: Watch Thomas Gabriel conjure up the ghost of his grandfather Johnny Cash with an eerily familiar cover of Folsom Prison Blues

Thomas Gabriel's cover of the classic Folsom Prison Blues was filmed at Cash Cabin in Hendersonville, TN

Louder

War crimes whistleblower in fight to stay out of jail

David McBride faces an anxious wait to learn whether he serves prison time after pleading guilty to leaking classified information exposing alleged war crimes.

AAP

Three men escape from Queensland prison

The search is on for three men who escaped from a prison in north Queensland.

AAP

The spy who fed CIA secrets to Russia – then betrayed the US again from prison

Harold James “Jim” Nicholson, a 16-year veteran of the CIA, was sentenced to more than 23 years in prison in 1997 for espionage – but he kept up the treason from behind bars, enlisting his adult son to liaise with the Russians on the outside. Nicholson was convicted for a…

The Independent UK

Anxious, optimistic: Families of female Palestinian prisoners await release

According to terms of a four-day truce between Israel and Hamas, 150 Palestinian women and children will be released.

Al Jazeera

Naidu’s release on bail, TDP-JSP combine will have no bearing on poll prospects of YSRCP in Andhra Pradesh, says Sajjala

Claiming that the changing political equations in Andhra Pradesh and the release of Telugu Desam Party (TDP) national president N. Chandrababu Naidu from prison on bail in the skill development scam case will not have any bearing on its prospects, the YSR Congress Patry (YSRCP) says that it is confident of its…

The Hindu

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The Young and the Restless spoilers: what really happened to Gloria in Singapore?

The Young and the Restless’ Gloria has finally blown back into town and reveals why she was in a Singapore prison. Here’s what happened.

Al Jazeera

Israel-Hamas deal: Which captives, Palestinian prisoners could be freed?

Hamas and Israel have both said that they will release women and children.

Radio France Internationale

French bill seeks to compensate thousands jailed for homosexuality

A proposed law to compensate thousands of men who were convicted and imprisoned for the offence of homosexuality in France between 1942 and 1982 is being debated in the Senate.

The Guardian - UK

Four men jailed for murder of Ashley Dale in Liverpool

James Witham, 41, Joseph Peers, 29, Niall Barry, 26, and Sean Zeisz, 28, sentenced to life in prison

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The Independent UK

Sending prisoners abroad to cost at least £200m and won’t happen until 2026, government’s own report warns

Justice secretary Alex Chalk plans to send prisoners to jails abroad to ease overcrowding

The Independent UK

An American man convicted of child sex crimes in Kenya 9 years ago is rearrested on new charges

An American man convicted of child sex crimes in Kenya nine years ago has been denied bail on new charges of defilement, months after he was mysteriously released from prison where he was serving a 50-year sentence

Reason

Brickbat: Letters from Home

Coi Morris, a mail handler at the U.S. Postal Service processing center in New Orleans, has pleaded guilty to embezzling. Morris admitted that for months, he opened and stole from greeting cards at the processing center, taking between $500 and $800 plus some gift cards. He faces up to five…

Evening Standard

Oscar Pistorius may win freedom after almost 10 years in prison for killing girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp

Murdered Reeva Steenkamp's mother is reportedly not opposing Pistorius' parole bid

The Guardian - UK

The Russell murders: is Michael Stone in prison for a brutal crime he didn’t commit?

He was jailed for the murders of Lin and Megan Russell in 1997. Now, 26 years, two trials and two appeals later, Stone’s case is being reviewed

The Independent UK

Woman sentenced to 25 years after pleading guilty in case of boy found dead in suitcase in Indiana

A Louisiana woman has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for her involvement in the death of a 5-year-old Atlanta boy whose body was found last year in a suitcase in rural southern Indiana

The Independent UK

Derek Chauvin breaks silence in first prison interview over George Floyd’s murder

The interview was part of a documentary about the fallout of George Floyd’s death

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