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How to watch 'Prisoner' online from anywhere — stream action thriller

Tahar Rahim and Izuka Hoyle lead Sky's new six-part thriller, and its setup is simple enough to sell itself.

Tom’s Guide

Former Hawks executive Jones sentenced to over 3 years in prison for embezzling $3.7M from team

Former Atlanta Hawks finance executive Lester T

The Independent UK

Life Beyond the Gates: The Woman Rebuilding What Incarceration Leaves Behind

Studies show that nearly 44% of incarcerated people released return before the first year out of prison. Behind those statistics are human beings who came home to nothing. No housing, no job pipeline, no one tracking their progress.

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Family of ailing Iranian Nobel laureate say keeping her in jail is a death sentence

Narges Mohammadi denied medical leave from prison in spite of sharp decline in health and drastic weight loss, say lawyers

The Guardian - UK

The missing Ukrainian reporter, the Russian prison – and a vital lesson learned about journalism in a dangerous age

To do our job, investigative journalists are learning to work across borders. This isn’t just about the truth, it’s about staying alive, says Laurent Richard, director of the Forbidden Stories consortium

The Guardian - UK

Amanda Leigh Fourez Pleads Guilty to Commissioning the Graphic Genital Mutilation of Infant Monkeys in Deranged Chat Groups

Amanda Leigh Fourez of Illinois has pleaded guilty to funding and distributing animal torture videos and faces up to seven years in prison. The case highlights a broader federal crackdown on animal cruelty networks.

International Business Times UK

California brothers face prison over illegal armor-piercing bullet import plot

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Australian woman who faked son’s cancer sentenced to more than four years in prison

Judge describes woman’s crimes as ‘cruel’, ‘manipulative’ and a carefully planned ‘attention-seeking device’

The Independent UK

South Korean court sentences ex-President Yoon to 7 years for charges including resisting arrest

South Korean appeals court on Wednesday sentenced ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol to seven years in prison for resisting arrest and bypassing a legitimate Cabinet meeting before his brief imposition of martial law in December 2024

The Independent UK

Brickbat: Don't Take Your Guns to Town

In Texas, a judge sentenced former Dallas Police Sergeant Thomas Fry to 28 months in federal prison for possession and… The post Brickbat: Don't Take Your Guns to Town appeared first on Reason.com.

Reason

Washington state says Geo Group refuses to let health inspectors into detention facility

Washington state has asked a federal judge to force private prison operator The Geo Group to allow health inspectors into its for-profit immigration detention center in Tacoma, which has been the subject of thousands of complaints from detainees in recent years

The Independent UK

Trump's Shameful Effort to Deport Russian Dissenters Fleeing Putin

The administration seeks to deport them back to Russia, in spite of overwhelming, moral, legal, and strategic reasons not to do so.

Reason

UK’s most overcrowded prison named amid criticism for ‘unacceptable’ living standards

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The Independent UK

Trump’s reasoning for repeatedly being attacked is simple: he thinks he is as great as Abraham Lincoln

The shooting incident at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on April 25, 2026, which was believed to be a targeted attack against President Donald Trump, has sparked widespread discussion. While some people, especially those active online, think the attack was staged by Trump officials to draw attention to him amid…

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The Independent UK

HMP Wandsworth labelled ‘inhumane’ after being found to be most overcrowded prison in UK

The chaos at the south-west London prison has been laid bare through a series of high-profile incidents in recent years

Evening Standard

London prison warned after former police officer takes his own life in cell

Rickie Poon, 38, took his own life in HMP Pentonville while awaiting trial for alleged sexual offences

The Independent UK

Czech court hands 7-year prison term to man over attempted synagogue arson attack

A Czech court has convicted a man of an attempted terror attack and attempted murder, sentencing him to seven years in prison

The Independent UK

A mom was kidnapped in front of her baby in 1991 and later murdered. Police said the suspect had just gotten out of prison

The 1991 murder of Cindy Wanner had gone unsolved for 35 years. Then came a break in the case

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The Guardian - AU

Evacuees from flooded remote Indigenous areas in NT housed in compound likened to ‘a prison camp’

Exclusive: Residents must sign in and out at a security gate, and vehicles and bags are routinely searched

The Independent UK

Teen trapped for 20 years on indefinite jail term should have served 18 months, judges rule

Jay Davis is among six prisoners languishing on IPP jail terms to have their sentences quashed last week

International Business Times UK

Nathan Chasing Horse Life Sentence: What Are The Charges Against the Dances With Wolves Actor?

Dances With Wolves actor Nathan Chasing Horse has been sentenced to life in prison in Nevada after being convicted on 13 counts, mostly for sexually assaulting Indigenous women and girls.

The Guardian - UK

Journalist Andrzej Poczobut freed from prison in Belarus in US-brokered swap deal

Sakharov prize winner was given eight-year sentence after process widely condemned as politically motivated

Euronews

Louis Arnaud, former French hostage in Iran, describes Evin prison as 'the den of evil'

Speaking to Euronews, Louis Arnaud says the memories of Evin Prison continue to haunt him, as he recalls a place where captives are crammed into windowless cells and where the lights never go out.

The Independent UK

Belarus frees journalist Andrzej Poczobut in prisoner swap

Officials say prominent journalist Andrzej Poczobut has been released from jail in Belarus in a swap with Poland that also saw a total of 10 prisoners released as the authoritarian leader of Belarus seeks improved relations with the West

Evening Standard

Former teacher jailed over abuse of pupils at Belfast school in 1970s

William Lloyd-Lavery, 77, of Richmond Avenue, Lisburn, has been sentenced to two years in prison.

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