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Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Retaliating against a harbormaster, retaliating against a prisoner, and official-act immunity.

Reason

Kenyan cult leader sentenced to 18 months for film violations but still not charged over mass graves

The leader of a doomsday cult in Kenya has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for the illegal distribution of films and operating a film studio without licenses

The Independent UK

Retired Chicago firefighter gets 2 months in prison for taking part in ‘Tunnel’ siege at U.S. Capitol

Joseph Pavlik spent 33 years as a firefighter before retiring in 2013, prosecutors said. He went to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, with a tactical vest, helmet, goggles, a gas mask and a can of chemical spray.

Chicago Sun-Times

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OPINION - Havering council's attempt to cancel Hanukkah sent a truly chilling message

The sky was rarely darker than on a moonless night in Theresienstadt. Of the 140,000 Czech Jews imprisoned in the concentration camp-ghetto in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, a quarter died of disease or starvation. The rest were carted away, murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau and other death camps in the East. Yet even in…

Evening Standard

Felicity Huffman breaks silence on 2019 college admissions scandal

Huffman, 60, spent 11 days in prison for paying to falsify her daughter's SATs

Evening Standard

Ex-Inmate Says SBF Was On Suicide Watch In Jail, Didn't Eat And Shower For Days

In an interview with a crypto blogger, mob enforcer-turned-informant Gene Borrello talked about Bankman-Fried and his condition inside the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center as he awaits his sentencing next year.

International Business Times

Honduras Prison Riot: Police Bullets Found In Some Bodies Among 46 Died

However, the deputy security minister did not mention the exact number of bodies from which the bullets were recovered.

Latin Times

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Spain Bets On Mixed Gender Prisons

At a jail in northwestern Spain, a sole female inmate played football with 21 male convicts, part of a push towards mixed prison living that remains rare in Europe.

International Business Times

Chinese prisoner’s ID card apparently found in lining of Regatta coat

UK brand says investigation shows individual was paid employee, not inmate, as Derbyshire customer raises concern over prison labour [update - see footnote]

The Guardian - UK

Israel launches strikes on Gaza as fighting resumes after truce expires

More than 170 Palestinians killed as Red Cross head warns ‘nightmarish situation’ for civilians has returned

The Guardian - UK

Detainees in El Salvador's gang crackdown cite abuse during months in jail

Thousands of detainees swept up in El Salvador's gang crackdown over the past 1 1/2 years have been released from pre-trial detention

The Independent UK

Mom convicted of killing kids in Idaho taken to Arizona in murder conspiracy case

A woman is in an Arizona jail facing charges in a killing after she was sentenced to life in an Idaho prison for murdering her two youngest children and another woman

The Independent UK

Biden Threatens To Block GOP Plan To Send 3,000 People Back to Federal Prison

The White House cited the extraordinarily low recidivism rates among those released and the savings to taxpayers in its veto threat.

Reason

Trucking boss gets 7 years for role in 2019 smuggling that led to deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants

The final member in a migrant smuggling ring that was responsible for the deaths of 39 Vietnamese immigrants who suffocated in a shipping container in 2019 has been sentenced by a London judge to seven years in prison

The Independent UK

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The Hindu

Two held for stealing granite idol from temple near Ranipet

Kalavai police arrested two trans persons for stealing a granite idol from Chenneri village temple. Idol was 1.5ft tall and worshipped for 40+ yrs. Accused confessed to crime, planning to build temple and believed idol would gain power. Idol recovered and accused lodged in Vellore prison.

The Conversation

We don't know how many victims of modern slavery are in prison – why that's a problem

Modern slavery affects an estimated 120,000 people in the UK. Under international law, countries must identify and protect survivors, while prosecuting and punishing those who traffic and exploit them.

The Independent UK

Plan to send inmates abroad shows prison system ‘completely broken’ by Tory failures, union chief warns

Prisons yet to recover from austerity ‘race to the bottom’, with nine Tory justice secretaries achieving ‘nothing but decline’, warns Andrea Albutt

Evening Standard

Eileen movie review: desire runs riot in this Ottessa Moshfegh adaptation

Eileen is the drabbest of them all... until glamourous new prison psychiatrist Rebecca comes swanning into town, that is

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The Independent UK

Human rights of Danish sub killer were not violated when prison banned letters, visits, court says

A Danish court has ruled that the human rights of a Danish man who was convicted of murdering a Swedish journalist on his homemade submarine were not violated as he had claimed

The Guardian - US

Blinken keen for truce to ‘continue to move forward’ – as it happened

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France 24

Israel must act ‘in accordance with the laws of war’, Blinken says in Tel Aviv

Speaking from Tel Aviv on Thursday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken stressed that Israel must conduct its military operations “in accordance with the laws of war” and called for more to be done to protect civilians as a Gaza truce extension was set to expire Friday morning. Six Israeli…

The Independent UK

Colombian judge orders prison for 2 suspects in the kidnapping of parents of Liverpool soccer player

Two suspects in the kidnapping of the parents of Liverpool soccer player Luis Díaz were ordered sent to prison by a judge, according to Colombia’s Prosecutor’s Office, which accused one of the men of being the link to a person close to the family who provided information about the victims

AAP

Youth block of adult prison to shut after teen's death

A high-security youth wing at an adult prison where Indigenous teenager Cleveland Dodd recently fatally self-harmed will be closed and replaced.

The Independent UK

Jan. 6 suspect who later fired a gun toward Texas officers gets 2 years for firearm charge

A Texas man who shot toward sheriff’s deputies making a welfare call to his house on the day he’d agreed to surrender on charges for taking part in the in the U.S. Capitol riot has been sentenced to two years in prison on a firearm charge

The Independent UK

Texas man who set fire to an Austin synagogue sentenced to 10 years

A Texas man who set fire to an Austin synagogue in an antisemitic attack two years ago has been sentenced to 10 years in prison

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