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No Path to Redemption for Devout Death Row Inmates

Texas offers religious education to the condemned but rarely values religious growth when considering clemency requests.

Texas Observer

Former Florida Republican lawmaker sent to prison for Covid-19 aid fraud

Joe Harding, who sponsored ‘don’t say gay’ law, must serve four months for claiming $150,000 in relief funds

The Guardian - US

Man gets 20 years for raping minor daughter

A city court convicted a man accused of raping his own minor daughter and sentenced him to prison for 20 years.

The Hindu

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Yoga programme held for jail inmates as part of Dasara in Mysuru

Mysuru Central Prison inmates participated in a special yoga programme as part of the ongoing Dasara festival. Chief Superintendent of Prisons and Correctional Services, P.S. Ramesh, said yoga can help keep mind and body under control. 300 inmates practised yoga for two hours every day for one month, organised by…

The Hindu

Zara Aleena's killer walks out of his own appeal bid for a shorter prison sentence

Jordan McSweeney has appealed for a shorter sentence for the murder of Zara Aleena

Evening Standard

Bodycam video shows police shooting man exonerated 16 years after wrongful conviction

Video shows 53-year-old Leonard Cure being stopped by a deputy for speeding, before being tasered, struck with a baton, and then shot dead

The Independent UK

Dutch court convicts man who projected antisemitic message on Anne Frank museum

A court in Amsterdam has sentenced a Polish-Canadian national to two months in prison for projecting a message alluding to an antisemitic conspiracy theory onto the Anne Frank House museum

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Indigenous boy, 16, dies a week after being found unresponsive in WA’s Casuarina prison

Cleveland Dodd died at Perth’s Sir Charles Gairdner hospital shortly after 10pm on Thursday

The Guardian - AU

'Our boy deserved a future': Indigenous teen's family

The death of an Indigenous teenager in a prison cell has been described as preventable, as pressure mounts to close the controversial high-security facility.

AAP

Man who wounded toddler in road rage shooting gets 4 years in plea deal

Deandre Binion is expected to be released from prison next fall under a deal that dropped nearly all charges against him, including attempted murder.

Chicago Sun-Times

Zara Aleena's killer Jordan McSweeney to challenge prison sentence at Court of Appeal

Zara Aleena was killed as she walked home from a night out early on June 26 2022

Evening Standard

New 'healing' prison in Ireland points to long history of progressive penal reform

Ireland has formally opened the new women’s wing of the Limerick prison.

The Conversation

Zara Aleena’s killer in Court of Appeal bid to reduce prison sentence

Jordan McSweeney, who refused to attend his sentencing hearing, was previously handed a life sentence with a minimum term of 38 years.

The Independent UK

Jada Pinkett Smith says ‘soulmate’ Tupac Shakur proposed to her from prison

Pinkett Smith and Shakur met at a performing arts school as teenagers in the 1980s

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Asylum seekers return to Bibby Stockholm as 'driver threatened human shield'

ASYLUM seekers have returned to the Bibby Stockholm “prison barge” despite the efforts of protests and legal challenges.

The Guardian - UK

Staff shortages forcing England’s prisons into emergency ‘red’ measures

One prison has reported using ‘absolute last resort’ regime for inmates on 15 occasions this year

The Independent UK

Boris Becker announces return to tennis as coach of top-ranked player

Becker, who was released from prison last December, will work with men’s world number six Holger Rune

The Independent UK

JK Rowling claims she would ‘happily’ spend two years in prison for misgendering a trans person

Harry Potter author was responding to a speculative report about a hypothetical new hate crime legislation under a Labour government

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French officials suspect young people in rash of fake bomb threats, warn of heavy punishments

France’s government is threatening prison terms and heavy fines for callers who make fake bomb threats after a rash of false alarms forced the evacuation of 15 airports and cancellation of 130 flights and shut the doors of Versailles Palace three times in five days

The Hindu

Three men in Kallakurichi detained under Goondas Act for posting morphed photographs of women online

Three persons detained under Goondas Act for morphing photos of women enrolled in MGNREGS in Kallakurichi. Police arrested trio on Sept 21 and Collector Sravan Kumar Jatavath ordered their detention. Orders served on accused in Cuddalore Central Prison.

The Independent UK

Man who killed 2 South Carolina officers and wounded 5 others in ambush prepares for sentencing

A 79-year-old South Carolina man likely faces life in prison when he is sentenced for killing two police officers and wounding five more in a 2018 ambush he set up after detectives told him they were coming to serve a search warrant on his son

AAP

Prison escapee found after seven weeks on the run

A man who escaped a minimum-security prison almost two months ago has been found in regional Victoria.

The Independent UK

Georgia sheriff to release body camera video of traffic stop in which deputy killed exonerated man

A Georgia sheriff plans to release video of a traffic stop where a deputy fatally shot a Black man who three years earlier was released from prison after being wrongfully convicted

Salon

Van der Sloot admits he killed Holloway

Van der Sloot pleaded guilty to extortion and wire fraud charges during Wednesday's hearing

The Guardian - UK

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