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Nottinghamshire prison staff 'suspended pending investigation' after video released online

A number of clips taken by an inmate from inside a cell at the HMP Lowdham Grange have been published on Tik Tok

Nottingham Post

UN body condemns U.S., others for treatment of Guantanamo inmate

The United States and several other countries have committed human rights violations against a Saudi man held in the Guantanamo prison and accused of organising the bombing of the USS Cole in the port of Aden in 2000, a U.N. report said.

Reuters

Yemeni activist who revealed Houthi sexual abuses ‘detained by Saudi Arabia’

Samira al-Houri disappeared after allegations that claims of female prisoners being raped were embellished

The Guardian - UK

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Vladimir Kara-Murza, ‘Spymania’ and Putin’s crackdown on dissent

“Traitors and betrayers will get what they deserve.” So warned Russia’s Foreign Ministry following the sentencing of an outspoken critic of the Kremlin to 25 years in prison in April.

The Week

Police charge Rockhampton prisoner Barry Bloomfield after alleged hospital escape

A man who had been jailed for assault is found two days after he allegedly ditched his handcuffs and fled from a Rockhampton hospital.

ABC News

Sharing the sentence: Separation takes toll on incarcerated moms and their kids

Tens of thousands fewer women were incarcerated in the U.S. between 2019 and 2020 due to COVID-19, but as prison populations creep back to pre-pandemic norms, more children are being separated from their mothers, putting them at greater risk of health and behavioral problems, and making them vulnerable to abuse…

The Independent UK

Kathleen Folbigg walks free 20 years after being convicted of killing her four children, but what happens next?

Twenty years after she was jailed for killing her four children, Kathleen Folbigg has been pardoned and released from prison. She has a few options available.

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An Australian mother jailed 20 years is pardoned and freed because of new evidence

The pardon was seen as the quickest way of getting Kathleen Folbigg out of prison, as new scientific evidence found that her four children died by natural causes as she had insisted.

WEKU

Australian mother imprisoned 20 years pardoned and freed because of doubt she killed her 4 children

An Australian woman who spent 20 years in prison was pardoned and released based on new scientific evidence that her four children died by natural causes as she had insisted

The Independent UK

Kathleen Folbigg's tragic life started long before her babies died — now she is a free woman

Kathleen Folbigg was no stranger to tragedy when all of her children died before their second birthdays. This is how someone once known as Australia's worst female serial killer was freed from prison.

ABC News

Scots prison boss says 'no plans' to increase cell searches amid rise in drug finds

Fiona Cruickshanks claims guards spending more time searching for contraband would mean less “meaningful engagement” with prisoners.

Daily Record

Woman accused of killing her four kids pardoned after 20 years in prison

Kathleen Folbigg, 55, was convicted of murdering her children Patrick, Sarah and Laura, as well as manslaughter of her first child Caleb, who all died between 1989 and 1999

Daily Mirror

One of Ireland's most dangerous killers doing yoga in prison to stay calm

Violent brute Warren Dumbrell, 48, who along with his brother Jeffrey was jailed in 2011 for the murder of Chris Cawley in Inchicore, Dublin, has been spending hours every day in his cell practising his meditative poses.

Irish Mirror

Far-left protesters clash with German police in Leipzig after trial verdict

Far-left supporters of a young woman given a lengthy prison sentence for participating in attacks on neo-Nazis and other extremists clashed with police in the eastern German city of Leipzig over the weekend

The Independent UK

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Glasgow Live

Glasgow mum of daughter who died in custody blasts 'lies and insults'

A joint fatal accident inquiry was launched into the deaths of Katie Allan and teenager William Lindsay, who both took their lives within months of each other at Polmont Young Offenders Institution.

The Independent UK

Supporters of Russian opposition leader Navalny hold demonstrations to mark his 47th birthday

Imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny has voiced hope for a better future in Russia as his supporters held demonstrations to mark his birthday

Chronicle Live

Killer dies in North East prison on the day he was told his early release had been refused

Terence Lockhart died in the palliative care suite at HMP Holme House in Stockton on July 14, 2022 - two months after being told his lung cancer was terminal

The Guardian - AU

‘Extreme self-harm’: Queensland Labor faces internal criticism over prison system

Lack of mental health resources and basic facilities leaving inmates and workers traumatised, party member and daughter of state MP says

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Daily Record

Mum of tragic Katie Allan blasts ‘lies and insults’ since death in custody

A joint fatal accident inquiry was announced last week into the deaths of Katie Allan and teenager William Lindsay, who both took their lives at Polmont Young Offenders Institution.

Daily Record

Scots prison bosses warn cash crisis could scupper plans for new Barlinnie

Barlinnie has been marked for closure by 2026, with plans to replace it with the new state-of-the-art HMP Glasgow on the outskirts of the city.

ABC News

Banksia Hill Detention Centre guards lack working with children qualifications, union says

The Department of Justice is accused of allowing prison guards to work in youth detention centres without valid working with children checks, as an expert warns of a "legal minefield" over other missing qualifications.

Chicago Sun-Times

Bridgeview man gets 18 years for soliciting nude photos from a 14- and 5-year-old online

Federal authorities said Brandon Hanahan spent months soliciting and receiving nude photos from minors and continued after police searched his home and found child pornography.

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago man gets 22 years for secretly recording boys in YMCAs

Michael Porter, 58, was convicted of recording boys in Chicago-area YMCAs and possessing nearly 100,000 pictures and videos of child pornography over a nearly 20-year period.

The Independent UK

Key suspect in Natalee Holloway's case moved to new prison ahead of extradition tot US

The chief suspect in the unsolved 2005 disappearance of American student Natalee Holloway is being transferred to a prison near Peru’s capital ahead of his pending extradition to the United States to face charges linked to her vanishing

The Guardian - UK

Richard Wakeling, crime boss extradited to UK from Thailand, starts jail sentence

Drug importer fled UK in 2018 before trial that led to 11-year prison term but was captured at a Bangkok garage in February

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