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Over 100,000 children in England and Wales have parent in prison, analysis shows

Record comes as Estonia confirms it is in talks with UK over plans to accept British prisoners amid overcrowding crisis

The Guardian - UK

Will Donald Trump go to prison?

Ex-president Donald Trump faces 91 felony counts across four prosecutions as he runs for 2024 election

The Independent UK

Can Donald Trump still run for president after four indictments?

Republican former president Donald Trump faces federal indictments in Florida and DC and criminal and civil cases in both New York and Georgia

The Independent UK

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Serial offender accused of shooting dead father of three

Roberts has never spent more than six months in prison despite his decades-long rap sheet

The Independent UK

Lori Vallow ramps up bid to prove she was not mentally competent to stand trial

The ‘cult mom’ was sentenced to life in prison for the murders of her children

The Independent UK

A Star Wars-obsessed man has been jailed for a 2021 crossbow plot to kill Queen Elizabeth II

A Star Wars-obsessed man who says he was encouraged by a chatbot girlfriend to slay Queen Elizabeth II has been sentenced to nine years in prison for taking his plot to Windsor Castle

The Independent UK

Karnataka govt. to pay ₹5 lakh to ₹7.5 lakh compensation in cases of unnatural death of people while in prison

A policy has been framed for paying a compensation of ₹7.5 lakh to the next of kin of the prisoners in case of unnatural death of prisoner due to a quarrel among prisoners, and ₹5 lakh in case of other unnatural deaths, including suicide, within the prisons, the High Court…

The Hindu

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Crumbling courts, missing prisoners, and a lack of chairs: Volunteers sign up to watch London’s courts

Courts Correspondent Tristan Kirk joins a Courts Watch volunteer who signed up to monitor the inner workings of London’s largely-unseen criminal justice system

Evening Standard

Secret recordings cite ties between Berrios relative, Chicago mobster: ‘Jimmy and Frank were good friends’

Prosecutors revealed secretly recorded conversations Wednesday as they sought a prison sentence of more than five years for James T. Weiss, convicted this year of bribing two Illinois lawmakers.

Chicago Sun-Times

Afghan women’s rights activist tells summit: Young people are power of the world

Hasina Safi was speaking at the One Young World conference in Belfast.

The Independent UK

Families of imprisoned Tunisian dissidents head to the International Criminal Court

Family members of jailed lawyers and politicians in Tunisia want the International Criminal Court to investigate claims of political persecution and human rights violations

The Independent UK

Illinois kickstarts funding to state prison libraries with $420K in grants

Each of the state’s 28 prisons will receive $15,000 for books, magazines and other supplies, the first time they’ve received public funding of any kind in six years.

Chicago Sun-Times

Inmates gain HSC and tertiary education in a state-first jail program

'We come to prison as savages, why not release us as civilised human beings?'

Newcastle Herald

Student who faced year in Dubai prison after ‘airport altercation’ is allowed to leave country

‘Hellish five months’ in Dubai comes to an end

The Independent UK

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The Independent UK

Student faces year in Dubai prison after ‘airport altercation’

The 21-year-old has endured ‘degrading, painful and humiliating’ treatment, says charity

The Independent UK

Adnan Syed goes before Maryland Supreme Court facing 'specter of reincarceration,' his lawyers say

Adnan Syed is now free after being imprisoned for the murder of his ex-girlfriend more than two decades ago

The Independent UK

Slain Texas prisoner who was accused of killing 22 older women was stabbed by cellmate, report says

Authorities say a Texas prisoner accused of smothering to death 22 older women in their Dallas-area homes so he could steal jewelry and other valuables was stabbed by his cellmate in an attack last month that killed him

The Independent UK

Prison accused of putting people in solitary confinement based on secret evidence

‘This is torture in its highest form, and it must end now,’ said one inmate

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Reason

Weed Is Legal in Illinois. Police Searched His Car Anyway.

An officer conducted the search of Prentiss Jackson's vehicle after claiming he could smell "a little bit of weed." It ultimately resulted in a lengthy prison term.

The Independent UK

Florida father accused of imprisoning his adopted son in box in garage

Timothy Ferriter says teenager kept in captivity because of serious behavioural issues

The Independent UK

Former Russian state TV journalist gets 8 1/2-year sentence in absentia for Ukraine war criticism

A court in Moscow has handed a former state TV journalist a 8 1/2-year prison term in absentia for protesting Russia’s war in Ukraine, the latest in a months-long crackdown against dissent that has intensified since Moscow’s invasion 20 months ago

The Independent UK

Student who faced year in Dubai prison after ‘airport altercation’ is allowed to leave country

‘Hellish five months’ in Dubai comes to an end

Evening Standard

OPINION - Michael Wolff: Donald Trump 2.0 will either shatter the US system or be destroyed

Trump derangement syndrome has evolved into Trump wake-me-when-it’s-over syndrome. To briefly recap: a man facing four felony trials during his campaign, and two civil trials, one for fraud and one for rape, is the overwhelming favourite to win his party’s nomination for president — more secure in the race for…

The Guardian - UK

Alleged sexual abuse victim in Gabon upset at Fifa’s handling of case

Pierre-Alain Mounguengui, the president of Gabon’s football association, is being investigated over claims that he failed to report ‘crimes of paedophilia’

AAP

Scale of excavator meth haul 'unknown' by co-offender

A former businessman faces life in prison after an excavator sent to his premises was found with $184 million worth of methamphetamine hidden inside.

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