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Man jailed for life for murder and sexual assault of his sister near Glasgow

Connor Gibson, 21, sentenced to minimum prison term of 22 years at high court in Livingston

The Guardian - UK

Minnesota prison reaches resolution with inmates who refused to return to their cells in heat wave

A Minnesota prison has “resolved without incident” a situation involving about 100 inmates in one housing unit who would not return to their cells

The Independent UK

Convicted Proud Boys leader calls Alex Jones from prison and boasts that ‘Trump will pardon him’

Joe Biggs made jailhouse phone call to complain about prison food and ask for donations to support his family

The Independent UK

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Forcing criminals to attend sentencing is illogical

Letter: Jeremy Dein KC says the government’s plan will simply add unnecessary pressure to a prison system already on the verge of collapse. Plus a letter from Duncan Curtis

The Guardian - UK

Number of offenders with indefinite sentences recalled to prison soars

Exclusive: Campaigners say people are being sent back to jail in England and Wales ‘for no good reason’

The Guardian - UK

UN highlights ‘psychological harm’ to UK man jailed since 2012 for phone theft

Exclusive: Expert repeats call to review indefinite sentences such as Thomas White’s, whose family says now suffers from psychosis

The Guardian - UK

Federal Prison Guards Confessed to Rape and Got Away With It

"I knew they were scumbags," a former Bureau of Prisons officer tells Reason.

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‘He took every penny’: the women left with a debt mountain by coercive partners

Coercive or controlling behaviour has been an offence since 2015, but its financial aspects are poorly understood and can leave lives in ruins, a new report says

The Guardian - UK

Will Donald Trump go to prison?

Ex-president faces 91 felony counts across four prosecutions

The Independent UK

Consequences of Spoofing: Precious Metals Traders Pay a Steep Price

Banks and financial institutions have dominated precious metals wholesale markets for decades. The 2008 global financial crisis changed the rules for the traders handling significant buy and sell orders that often speculate to create income.

Barchart

Escaped murderer Danelo Cavalcante spotted on surveillance camera in Pennsylvania

The Chester County District Attorney’s Office said that Cavalcante seen on cameras near the Chester County Prison

The Independent UK

Killer who escaped Pennsylvania prison is spotted nearby on surveillance cameras

Authorities say a recently convicted murderer who escaped from a suburban Pennsylvania prison this week was spotted on residential surveillance cameras in an area not far from the prison

The Independent UK

Mother accused of killing husband with fentanyl-laced cocktail ‘misses her children’ in prison, lawyer says

‘She’s going through a lot,’ Kouri Rouchins’s attorney said

The Independent UK

‘Like a prison’: Asylum seeker tagged by Home Office describes ‘shame’ of being tracked 24/7

Home Office is considering plans to put electronic tags on more migrants who come to the UK irregularly. Here, Holly Bancroft speaks to an asylum seeker about how the government tracks his every move.

The Independent UK

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These Rwandan women were sent to jail for having an abortion. Now free, they speak out

They were sentenced for up to 10 years for violating anti-abortion laws. Some say their pregnancy was a result of rape. Rwanda has now liberalized its abortion laws and pardoned hundreds of the women.

The Independent UK

Ecuador: Inmates in prison takeover free 57 hostages after 24-hour standoff

Criminal gangs terrorise country as explosions rip across Ecuador

The Hindu

Nanguneri attack on SC siblings | Three teens accused in the case, get bail

The Juvenile Justice Board has given bail to three of the seven accused persons in the case pertaining to the attack on a Scheduled Caste teen of Nanguneri and his younger sister, on August 9.

The Independent UK

Seattle Proud Boys leader who led mob to Capitol on January 6 sentenced to 18 years in prison

Ethan Nordean and Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes have received the longest sentences yet in connection with the attack

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The Independent UK

An explosion in Ecuador is seen as gangs asserting power after inmates take hostages and free some

Authorities say criminal groups in Ecuador used explosives to damage a bridge in Ecuador after prison inmates took dozens of law enforcement officers hostage less than two days earlier

Al Jazeera

Two Proud Boys members given lengthy prison terms for Jan 6 Capitol riot

Dominic Pezzola and Ethan Nordean received sentences of 10 and 18 years, respectively, for their roles in the riot.

The Independent UK

Gun and drug charges filed against Myon Burrell, sent to prison for life as teen but freed in 2020

Prosecutors have filed gun and drug charges against Myon Burrell, who was sent to prison for life as a teen but set free in 2020 after 18 years behind bars after his sentence was commuted in a high-profile murder case

The Independent UK

Proud Boy who smashed Capitol window on Jan. 6 gets 10 years in prison, then declares, 'Trump won!'

A former Proud Boys member who smashed a U_S_ Capitol window in the building’s first breach on Jan_ 6, 2021, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison — before walking out of the courtroom declaring, “Trump won!”

The Independent UK

Proud Boy shouts ‘Trump won’ as he’s sentenced to 10 years in prison for Jan 6 crimes

Dominic Pezzola stole a shield to break a Capitol window. He joins members of the gang facing years in prison

The Hindu

One more suspect in Coimbatore car blast case arrested

NIA arrests Mohammed Azarudeen in connection with Coimbatore car blast case. He was part of an ISIS module in TN and had indoctrinated other accused in the case. The blast was triggered by Jamesha Mubeen, who had met Azarudeen in prison and planned an attack to free him. The VBIED…

The Independent UK

A man convicted of murder in Pennsylvania and wanted in Brazil remains at large after prison escape

A man convicted of murder in Pennsylvania for the fatal stabbing his ex-girlfriend remains at large, a day after he escaped from a county jail

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