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San Quentin State Prison inmates taught filmmaking under Hollywood producer-backed scheme

Kim Kardashian gave talk to inmates under project backed by ‘The Hangover’ producer Scott Budnick

The Independent UK

Brickbat: Religious Unfreedom

An Egyptian court has sentenced human rights activist Patrick Zaki to three years in prison after finding him guilty of "spreading false news" in an article he wrote about his life as a Coptic Christian. Zaki has already spent 22 months in prison, where his lawyers said he was tortured.

Reason

Enforcement Directorate searches premises of persons linked to arrested T.N. Minister Senthilbalaji

Officials of the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) on August 3, began searches in Karur, at the premises of the personal assistant of arrested T.N. Minister V. Senthilbalaji, as well as at other premises of the Minister’s acquaintances. Mr. Senthilbalaji is presently under judicial custody, at the Puzhal Prison in Chennai,…

The Hindu

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Singapore executes third prisoner in 2 weeks for drug trafficking

Singapore has executed a third prisoner in two weeks for drug trafficking, despite calls for the city-state to halt capital punishment for drug-related crimes

The Independent UK

Mother gets 14 years in death of newborn found floating off Florida coast in 2018

A Florida mother is going to prison for 14 years for the death of her newborn daughter who was found floating off the Palm Beach County coast five years ago

The Independent UK

Lori Vallow’s sister says she’s been ‘delusional’ for years – and denies she ever mentioned near-death experience before

The 50-year-old spoke out in court on Monday, moments before she was sentenced to life in prison for the murders of her seven-year-old son Joshua “JJ” Vallow, 16-year-old daughter Tylee Ryan, and conspiring to kill her husband’s Chad Daybell’s first wife, Tammy.

The Independent UK

Blues Brothers Con in Joliet canceled in solidarity with actors strike

‘Joliet is a proud union town,’ says organizer of the event planned at the city’s historic prison.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Publisher Badri Seshadri released from Tiruchi Central Prison

Badri Seshadri, a political commentator and publisher, was granted conditional bail by a court in Kunnam and released from Tiruchi Central Prison. He must sign at Srirangam police station daily for 15 days. He was arrested for remarks made in a YouTube interview criticizing the Chief Justice of India and…

The Hindu

Book of the Week: How to exploit prison labour

A new history shows how exploited convicts provided unpaid labour to make modern New Zealand

Newsroom.co.nz

Palaniswami criticises govt. over discovery of ingredient for alcohol in Salem central prison

AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswami on Wednesday deplored the DMK regime for the reports of the discovery of a basic ingredient for alcohol production on the premises of Salem central prison.

The Hindu

Eyioma Uwazurike gambling details: Everything we know

Eyioma Uwazurike is accused of betting on Broncos games he played in and tampering with records, punishable by up to two years in prison.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Jury resumes deliberations over death penalty or life in prison for Pittsburgh synagogue shooter

A jury has resumed deliberations over the sentence for a gunman who killed 11 worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue

The Independent UK

Watch Corey Taylor walk through the Blood Prison experience at the "notoriously haunted" Ohio State Reformatory

Slipknot's Corey Taylor gets spooked by ghouls and ghosts with two fans in the Ohio State Reformatory at this year's Inkcarceration Music & Tattoo Festival

Metal Hammer

Criminal indictments are not enough

But even defeating Trump at the polls will be insufficient to secure the future of American democracy

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The Guardian - UK

The tragedy of Rianna and baby Aisha: why a teenager gave birth all alone in a prison cell

It was more than 12 hours after Rianna Cleary went into labour before anyone came to help her. She was covered in blood – and her daughter was dead. Why were they failed so appallingly?

The Independent UK

Donald Trump is now facing three indictments. Can he still run for president?

Trump faces two federal indictments and criminal and civil cases in several states

The Independent UK

Is Donald Trump going to prison?

The former president is at the centre of several federal investigations and criminal cases

The Independent UK

Labour vows to deliver more prison places to ensure criminals are behind bars: ‘Our prisons are turning criminals away’

Shadow justice secretary Steve Reed accused the Conservatives of failing to build the cells they promised.

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Australian teenager Yusuf Zahab ‘alive’ in Syrian prison months after reports he was killed in IS strike

Family ‘overwhelmed with joy’ after video emerges of teenager, believed to be Zahab, looking healthy and speaking into a camera

The Independent UK

Can Donald Trump still run for president despite facing three indictments?

Trump faces two federal indictments and criminal and civil cases in several states

The Independent UK

Labour says it will deliver prison places needed to ensure criminals are behind bars

Shadow justice secretary Steve Reed accused the Conservatives of failing to build the cells they promised.

The Guardian - UK

Jailing shoplifters will not address root causes, says senior Tory

Sir Bob Neill criticises government plan for failing to consider mental health and addiction problems of many offenders

The Independent UK

Judge rejects military contractor's effort to toss out Abu Ghraib torture lawsuit

A federal judge has again rejected a military contractor’s effort to toss out a lawsuit filed against it by former inmates of Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison

The Independent UK

An accomplice to convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh's financial misdeeds gets seven years in prison

The former CEO of a respected South Carolina bank will spend seven years in federal prison for helping Alex Murdaugh steal nearly $2 million from clients' legal settlements

The Independent UK

Bill apparently aimed at halting criticism of Pakistani intelligence figures expected to become law

Pakistan’s lower house has passed a bill that recommends a three-year prison term for anyone found guilty of disclosing the identity of an intelligence official, a move apparently aimed at stifling criticism of military-backed spy chiefs and agents

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