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Senior prison officials likely to be questioned in Bitcoin scam

SIT probing Bitcoin scam to question prison officials who had Sri Krishna in custody; hacker had stolen bitcoins from Bitfinex, one of world's largest cryptocurrency heists; SIT to summon 3 prison officials, incl. senior official, for questioning.

The Hindu

Government grants permission for new prison despite council rejecting plans

Michael Gove intervened and granted planning permission for the new prison near Market Harborough after an appeal from the Ministry of Justice.

The Independent UK

Murugha Sharanaru released on bail from Chitradurga prison in PoCSO case

Seer Shivamurthy Murugha Sharanaru released on bail from Chitradurga prison after 14 months. Bail conditions bar him from entering Chitradurga district. He is accused of sexually exploiting two minor girls and violating SCs and STs (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. High Court granted bail on Nov 8, and Chitradurga District and…

The Hindu

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Craig's attacker sentenced to more than two years in prison - Roll Call

Rep. Angie Craig's attacker was sentenced to more than two years in prison by a federal judge on Thursday.

Roll Call

Russian artist jailed for seven years over Ukraine war price tag protest

Aleksandra Skochilenko replaced five supermarket price tags with pieces of paper urging shoppers to stop the war

The Guardian - UK

Nohema Graber murder: Willard Miller and Jeremy Goodale sentenced

Willard Miller and Jeremy Goodale have now both been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Spanish teacher Nohema Graber

The Independent UK

Jury convictions of Bannon and Navarro for refusing congressional subpoena may energize lawmakers' ability to hold powerful people accountable

On Jan. 25, 2024, Peter Navarro is scheduled to be sentenced – perhaps to prison – after his swift conviction by a jury on contempt of Congress charges. He has joined Steve Bannon as the first defendants in decades to be held criminally liable by the U.S. Department of Justice…

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Russian court convicts a woman for protesting the war in Ukraine in latest crackdown on free speech

A Russian court has convicted an artist and musician for replacing supermarket price tags with antiwar slogans and sentenced her to seven years in prison

The Independent UK

Man who helped start fire that killed six children can be released from prison

Paul Mosley was convicted alongside Mick and Mairead Philpott for his role in starting the fire that killed six Philpott children in Derby in 2012.

Evening Standard

French prosecutor urges suspended prison sentence for justice minister

The French public prosecutor facing Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti at the special Republican Court of Justice (CJR) have asked judges to find him guilty of using his position to settle personal scores, and to hand him a one-year suspended prison sentence.

Radio France Internationale

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: What Iran jail hell taught me about freedom of speech

EXCLUSIVE: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe shared a bunk with one of Evin prison’s pillars of resilience. She tells the Standard of what she learned about Iran’s state-sponsored cancel culture and repression

Evening Standard

Brickbat: Out of Sight, Out of Mind

Former Hialeah, Florida, police officer Rafael Otano has been sentenced to five and a half years in prison after being convicted of kidnapping a homeless man who was considered a nuisance by shop owners at a local strip mall. Prosecutors said that after a shopkeeper called police last year to…

Reason

Mother of boy, 6, who shot teacher is sentenced to 21 months in prison

First-grade teacher Abigail Zwerner survives injuries from 9mm semiautomatic pistol

The Independent UK

Rapist allowed to work in prison despite allegations

The governor of a women's prison where inmates were raped says she was at a loss as how to deal with the former officer later convicted of the assaults.

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The Independent UK

Man killed three generations of Canadian family to make ‘all Muslims fearful for their safety’, court hears

If found guilty, Nathaniel Veltman faces life in prison

The Independent UK

Australia proposes law to allow prison time for high-risk migrants who breach visa conditions

High-risk migrants in Australia will face up to five years in prison for breaching their visa conditions under emergency legislation introduced in response to a High Court ruling that migrants can’t be detained indefinitely

Evening Standard

England and Son at Arcola Theatre review: high energy, but low on subtlety

Political comedian Mark Thomas gives a powerful performance in this solo show about a man lost to a cycle of violence and addiction, which is preceded by a sit-down comedy routine about its conception. Writer Ed Edwards wrote the play for Thomas when the two were doing performance workshops with…

The Independent UK

Iowa teen convicted of killing Spanish teacher gets life with possibility of parole after 25 years

An Iowa teen convicted in the 2021 beating death of a high school Spanish teacher was sentenced to life in prison with a possibility of parole in 25 years

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The Independent UK

Lawyers insist Nikola founder shouldn't face prison time for fraud — unlike Elizabeth Holmes

Lawyers for the founder of truckmaker Nikola Corp. say he should not face incarceration because his criminal conviction is nothing like what landed Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes in prison

The Independent UK

Trump rants that Kim Kardashian is world’s ‘most overrated celebrity’

Ex-president wrote that he helped ‘with prisoner commutation,’ but ‘much more so for Kanye West than for Kim’

The Conversation

Long hours and low wages: the human labour powering AI's development

The Finnish tech firm Metroc recently began using prison labour to train a large language model to improve artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For 1.54 euros an hour prisoners answer simple questions about snippets of text in a process known as data labelling.

The Independent UK

Will Donald Trump go to prison?

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

Reason

He Lost His Gun Rights Because of a Misdemeanor DUI Conviction. That Was Unconstitutional, a Judge Says.

The case highlights the broad reach of a federal law that bans firearm possession by people with nonviolent criminal records.

PC Gamer

Mutant Ape Planet NFT creator pleads guilty to $2.9M rug pull, faces up to 5 years in prison

Aurelien Michel, who was arrested in January, will also pay a fine of $1.4 million.

France 24

'A cold cell for being a journalist': Husband of US-Russian national Alsu Kurmasheva calls for her release

Alsu Kurmasheva is a dual US-Russian citizen and journalist who has been detained by Russia since October 18, charged with failing to register as a “foreign agent” despite having travelled to Russia for a family emergency. She faces up to five years in prison if convicted. Her husband has called…

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