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LOCALIZE IT: Thousands more prisoners will get degrees paid for with Pell Grants

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The Independent UK

‘Whatever it takes’: the activists who risk prison to shatter Australia’s climate complacency

Protesters are taking increasingly extreme action to highlight ecological collapse – and new, more draconian laws are failing to stop them

The Guardian - AU

Wheelchair-using rape suspect facing extradition kicked down door, court told

Nicholas Rossi is fighting an extradition hearing at Edinburgh Sheriff Court.

The Independent UK

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Wanted man boasts he's 'too good at hiding' as he taunts police on Facebook

Furqaan Hussain, 22, is wanted on recall to prison

Manchester Evening News

US fugitive Nicholas Rossi has no medical need for wheelchair, prison doctor tells court

Dr Barbara Mundweil said Rossi claims to be “paralysed”, but there had been no diagnosis of any condition preventing him from walking.

Daily Record

5 takeaways from AP's reporting on Pell Grants for prisoners getting college degrees

Thousands of prisoners throughout the United States get their college degrees behind bars, most of them paid for by the federal Pell Grant program, which offers the neediest undergraduates tuition aid that they don’t have to repay

The Independent UK

Scathing watchdog blames Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide on prison staff leaving him unchecked in cell

The DOJ’s Office of the Inspector General released its report on Tuesday, finding that multiple prison staff members failed to check on the disgraced financier despite him being on suicide watch

The Independent UK

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Thousands more prisoners across the US will get free college paid for by the government

The Independent UK

First Thing: Supreme court rules against fringe legal theory in key voting rights case

North Carolina Republicans requested justices issue after following dispute over electoral maps. Plus, Brittney Griner’s triumphant return to the WNBA

The Guardian - UK

Inmates are dying in stifling Texas prisons, but the state seldom acknowledges heat as a cause of death

Since a heat wave gripped Texas, at least nine inmates, including two men in their 30s, have died of heart attacks or unknown causes in prisons lacking air conditioning. It’s been 11 years since the state last classified a death as heat-related.

The Texas Tribune

Great British Menu star Mark Ellis spared prison after major fire safety investigation

Chef Mark Ellis, who found fame on BBC cooking show the Great British Menu, faced two years in jail after a probe into his Allium Bar and Grill restaurant in Tattenhall, Cheshire

Daily Mirror

‘She brings light’: Brittney Griner’s triumphant return to the WNBA

Many feared the Mercury star would struggle on court after her time in Russian prison. But she has already been named in the league’s All-Star team

The Guardian - US

Commentary: There are no winners in Wagner Group’s thwarted insurrection in Russia

The rebellion ended as quickly as it began. Less than a day after Wagner Group mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin led thousands of his men into Russia and made a beeline toward Moscow, he called it off and pulled them back. In a deal brokered by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, Prigozhin…

Chicago Tribune

Hexham pensioner caught with child sex abuse images for second time avoids jail again

Pervert Peter Gill has been given a further suspended sentence, despite also being given one in 2017 for similar offending

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The Independent UK

Thai court acquits 5 who were accused of blocking the queen's motorcade during 2020 protests

A court in Thailand has acquitted a student activist and four other people of impeding the motorcade of the country’s queen during pro-democracy demonstrations in 2020, an offense that could have seen them sentenced to 16 years in prison or even the death penalty

The Independent UK

California man gets prison for nearly $9M phony cow manure-to-green energy investment scheme

A California man is going to prison for running a cow dung-to-green energy scheme that authorities say was a load of manure

The Independent UK

Honduras copies El Salvador's playbook in anti-gang crackdown

Observers say that a crackdown in Honduras on gangs in the nation’s prisons is eerily similar to one carried out last year in neighboring El Salvador by President Nayib Bukele

McClatchy Washington Bureau

DOJ watchdog cites prison lapses leading up to Epstein’s death, but no sign of foul play

Prison officials and guards made numerous errors in overseeing Jeffrey Epstein when he was in federal custody, and tried to falsify records to cover their tracks, but the watchdog for the U.S. Department of Justice found no evidence to suggest that Epstein’s death on Aug. 10, 2019, was anything other…

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The Guardian - UK

Pioneering facility offering alternative to women’s prisons opens in England

Hope Street scheme in Southampton aims to keep women in criminal justice system out of jail and with their children

Leeds Live

Serial offender who 'wanted to go back to prison' attacked police at Leeds McDonald's

Wayne Dixon has not got his wish

The Independent UK

Wagner chief walks free after armed revolt. Other Russians defying the Kremlin aren’t so lucky

Mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin led an armed rebellion against the Russian military — and got away with it

The Guardian - UK

‘Complex. Unsettling. Creepy.’ Jarvis Cocker, Colm Tóibín and more on the disturbing genius of Artangel

From prison cells to department stores, for the past 30 years the visionary commissioning body has created unforgettable artworks in unlikely spaces. Famous fans pick their favourite works

Daily Record

Scots killer who stabbed pal in row over beer dies in prison after one year

Reece Sweeney, 24, was serving life in jail for stabbing Jamie McGready at a flat in Govan, Glasgow, in August 2020.

The Independent UK

Jeffrey Epstein report: ‘Significant misconduct’ by prison officials led to Epstein’s suicide

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The Independent UK

Scathing watchdog blames Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide on prison staff leaving him unchecked in cell

The DOJ’s Office of the Inspector General released its report on Tuesday, finding that multiple prison staff members failed to check on the disgraced financier despite him being on suicide watch

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