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Inmates and visitors allegedly smuggled contraband into jail

Police allegedly found opioids being smuggled in a pair of shoes.

The Canberra Times

El Salvador is gradually filling its new mega prison with alleged gang members

With tattoo-covered faces, wearing white shirts and shorts, gang members captured during El Salvador’s state of exception are gradually filling the country’s new mega prison

The Independent UK

Colombian serial killer who confessed to murdering more than 190 children dies in hospital

Authorities in Colombia say a prolific serial killer who confessed to murdering more than 190 children during the 1990s has died in a hospital where he was imprisoned

The Independent UK

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‘Inevitable’ prison spaces will run out as judges ‘delay sentencings’ to avoid overwhelming system

Exclusive: Ministers playing ‘game of brinksmanship’ with prison places, governors association warns

The Independent UK

Women’s groups criticise move to delay sentencing in England and Wales

Government accused of letting down victims as full prisons mean convicted criminals will spend longer on bail

The Guardian - UK

Mom of slain Chicago Police Officer Ella French faces man charged in fatal shooting: “My faith tells me to forgive, I’m not ready for that.’

Elizabeth French spoke during a hearing where 25-year-old Eric Morgan pleaded guilty to aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, battery with a deadly weapon and obstruction of justice. He was sentenced to 7 years.

Chicago Sun-Times

Future generations deserve more than prisons

Dumping untold thousands of people into prison is much easier than solving any of our social problems. But it won’t work, argues Emilie Rākete.

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OPINION - The Tories are polling badly for exactly the reasons you think

All international crises have a local angle. For Britain and the 9/11 terrorist attacks, it is the infamous ‘good day to bury bad news‘ affair. This was when Jo Moore, a political advisor to the transport secretary, Stephen Byers, suggested within an hour of the second plane flying into the…

Evening Standard

Minister to set out reforms as prison overcrowding reaches ‘critical point’

Health Secretary Steve Barclay acknowledged there is ‘huge pressure’ on the prison system.

The Independent UK

New Labour attack ad claims Sunak is letting rapists walk free as prisons crisis deepens

Party’s latest attack ad targets prime minister over prisoners

The Independent UK

Levani Botia: Fiji’s former prison officer hoping to put England on Rugby World Cup lockdown

La Rochelle’s ‘Demolition Man’ and Fijian cult hero will punish any sluggish breakdown work in Sunday’s quarter-final battle in Marseille

Evening Standard

A school shooter went viral on TikTok. Should he be on the platform at all?

Trauma experts say Jon Romano, who was released from prison in 2020 after serving time for a 2004 shooting, is doing even more harm

The Guardian - US

England and Wales judges told not to jail criminals as prisons full – report

Senior judge quoted by the Times says ‘biggest concern’ over guidance is those convicted of sexual assault likely to stay on bail

The Guardian - UK

Barclay refuses to say if judges have been told not to jail some criminals

The Health Secretary told broadcasters that Justice Secretary Alex Chalk will address the issue in a statement to the Commons on Monday.

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First minister says SNP MP who defected to Tories ‘probably never believed’ in Scottish independence – as it happened

Humza Yousaf says Lisa Cameron’s move was ‘the least surprising news I’ve had as leader of the SNP’

Evening Standard

Minister admits prisons under ‘huge pressure’ amid reports burglars and rapists will avoid jail

The senior presiding judge in England and Wales is said to have called for a delay to sentencings to avoid more criminals being put behind bars

AAP

Indigenous boy fighting for life after custody incident

A 16-year-old boy is in a critical condition in hospital after he was found unresponsive in his cell at the Unit 18 detention facility in Western Australia.

The Guardian - UK

China has sentenced Rahile Dawut to life in prison and would like the world to forget her. We must not

The respected Uyghur scholar became a powerful symbol of the devastation of that culture. Her imprisonment cannot go unchallenged, says author and academic Rachel Harris

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The Independent UK

Judges told not to jail rapists due to overcrowded prisons

Defendants on bail set to remain free or in court cells while some inmates will be released early

AAP

Emotions run high as Australian mother freed from China

After years of working for Cheng Lei's release from a Chinese prison, the foreign minister has detailed the journalist's emotional return to Australia.

The Guardian - AU

Indigenous boy, 16, in critical condition after being found unresponsive at WA youth prison

Boy resuscitated at Casuarina prison before being taken to Perth’s Sir Charles Gairdner hospital

The Independent UK

An Oklahoma man used pandemic relief funds to have his name cleared of murder

An Oklahoma man who was freed after being imprisoned for decades on a murder conviction says there are more cases like his

The Guardian - UK

Roberto Saviano faces defamation verdict for remark about Giorgia Meloni

Writer could be imprisoned if found guilty over comments castigating Italian PM for her vitriol about Mediterranean rescues

Chicago Sun-Times

Businessman James T. Weiss gets 5 1/2 years in prison for bribing 2 state lawmakers, lying to the FBI

The judge spent part of the hearing asking about Chicago’s persistent public corruption problem. At one point he stopped a prosecutor and asked, ‘Why does public corruption keep happening?’

The Independent UK

Killer pilot’s release from prison blocked by Justice Secretary

BA captain Robert Brown beat his wife Joanna Simpson to death with a claw hammer in their family home in October 2010.

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