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Jen Shah moans about prison breakfast as she insists she 'doesn't belong' behind bars

Jen Shah, 49, was sentenced to 78 months after she was found guilty of defrauding elderly and vulnerable people out of tens of millions of dollars in a telemarketing scheme

Daily Mirror

18 female guards at same jail fired for having illicit affairs with inmates

One female guard had a sexual relationship with convicted drug dealer John McGee who was serving time for causing death by dangerous driving

Liverpool Echo

He tried to roll 5 pounds of meth through LAX. It didn't fly

LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles man received a 12-year federal prison sentence Friday for attempting to transport 5 pounds of methamphetamine through Los Angeles International Airport last year, the U.S. attorney's office said.

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US General Warns of ISIS ‘Army in Detention’ in Syria, Iraq

A US general warned Saturday that the Middle East faces the looming threat of an ISIS group "army in detention", after visiting prisons and camps in northeastern Syria holding suspected extremists and their relatives. General Michael Kurilla, head of the US military's Central Command, visited several detention facilities this week,…

Asharq Al-Awsat

A year after plea talks began, the 9/11 case is still in limbo, frustrating families

Settlement talks began a year ago in the 9/11 terrorism case. But little progress has been made, dragging out the future of the problem-plagued U.S. military court and prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

WEKU

Stephen Bear has been crying for days in cell as he's put on prison suicide watch

The former Celebrity Big Brother winner was sentenced to 21 months in prison last week

Irish Mirror

For all of us detained at Guantánamo, making art was a lifeline. Why won’t Joe Biden let us keep our work?

Art freed our minds and helped us survive. It cannot be right to argue that, even now, the fruits of our creativity belong to the state, says Mansoor Adayfi, an artist and former Guantánamo prisoner

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Magpies, Power strike deal over prison bar guernsey

Collingwood have relaxed their staunch opposition to Port Adelaide's 'prison bar' guernsey, allowing the Power to wear it in their AFL showdown with Adelaide.

AAP

Paul Flores sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole for murder of Kristin Smart

LOS ANGELES — Paul Flores was sentenced Friday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the murder of fellow Cal Poly San Luis Obispo student Kristin Smart, who disappeared on Memorial Day weekend more than 25 years ago and whose body was never found.

Los Angeles Times

Paul Flores receives maximum sentence for murdering Cal Poly student Kristin Smart

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — A Monterey County Superior Court judge on Friday sentenced Paul Flores to 25 years to life in state prison for killing California Polytechnic State University student Kristin Smart — the maximum sentence for first-degree murder.

Tribune News Service

Marjorie Taylor Greene and House GOP want to visit January 6 defendants in jail

Oversight Committee Republicans are investigating Washington DC’s jail but activists say their years of warnings about the prison’s mistreatment of its mostly Black population fell on deaf ears

The Independent UK

Did ‘Tiger King’ ruin Joe Exotic’s life? ‘Absolutely,’ he says in a call from prison

“Tiger King” made Joe Exotic a pandemic-era star, right? Wrong, says the man himself.

Los Angeles Times

Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Speedy trials, political advertising, and horseracing.

Reason

Ahmaud Arbery's killers deny racist motives in appeals

Three white men sentenced to prison in the 2020 killing of Ahmaud Arbery are asking an appeals court to throw out their federal hate crime convictions

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Nottingham Post

Nottingham terrorist returned to jail for breaching notification requirements

The 53-year-old was released from prison in 2020

The Independent UK

Climate protester confronts judge over ‘amoral’ order on what jury could hear

Four Insulate Britain protesters appeared at Inner London Crown Court before Judge Silas Reid ahead of their sentencing next week.

The Independent UK

The prisoners who have married behind bars

It is currently legal to marry in the UK if you are in prison but prisoners who want to get married have to apply to the governor of the prison

Daily Record

Stephen Bear on 'suicide watch' in prison and has been 'crying in his cell for days'

The former reality star was slammed behind bars a week ago and sentenced to 21 months over the revenge porn tape involving Georgia Harrison which has apparently left him a 'broken man' who is now on 24-hour watch.

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Evening Standard

Magistrates ‘disappointed’ as sentencing powers cut amid prison places crisis

Magistrates say they are “incredibly disappointed” at the government’s decision to cut back their sentencing powers in the midst of the prison places crisis.

Wales Online

Prison officer explains what it's like being a woman in a male jail after leaving stage career

Jessica Hardy had looked set for a life on stage but now she's following her family's work history

The Conversation

Biggest racial gap in prison is among violent offenders – focusing on intervention instead of incarceration could change the numbers

Racial disparities in state imprisonment rates dropped significantly during the first two decades of the 21st century.

The Independent UK

Man faces prison for racist tweet about Burnley footballer Michael Obafemi

Josh Phillips admitted sending a grossly offensive message on Twitter.

The Independent UK

Rapists and murderers serving life sentences to be banned from getting married in prison

Under Justice Secretary Dominic Raab’s Victims’ Bill rapists and muderers serving whole life terms could be banned from ever getting married

Bangkok Post

Beatings of women in Myanmar jail alleged

In early February, four members of an anti-junta group in the Myanmar city of Mandalay said they received a secret, one-page, handwritten note spirited out of a prison that details two days of clashes and beatings of female political prisoners.

ABC News

15yo boy sentenced to 7 years' prison after stolen car crash in Cairns killed teen passenger

The teenager has been sentenced in the Supreme Court in Cairns after crashing a stolen car into a tree, leaving one teenager dead and a child with quadriplegia.

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