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Incarcerated people use TikTok videos to expose Alabama’s prison conditions

Understaffing, overcrowding and a lack of healthcare fueled a crisis in a state with the world’s highest incarceration rate

The Guardian - US

Belgian aid worker, Iranian diplomat freed in prisoner exchange

Iran freed Belgian aid worker Olivier Vandecasteele after almost 15 months in custody on Friday, in a prisoner exchange for Iranian diplomat Assadollah Assadi, who had been convicted of terrorism. Vandecasteele landed in Belgium late Friday after being repatriated in a military aircraft, according to images broadcast on television.

France 24

Shameless inmates joke Addiewell prison is like 'hotel' in TikTok video

Shameless inmates filmed themselves on a smuggled phone

Daily Record

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Man jailed after bashing 91-year-old in assault sparked by attacker's young son in Rockingham

A man is sent to prison for more than two years for bashing an elderly man in an altercation which was started by the attacker's eight-year-old son.

ABC News

Bungendore landscaper Timothy Engstrom sentenced to 11 years in jail over plot to import cocaine in excavator arm

Timothy Engstrom is sentenced to 11 and a half years in prison over his part in a plot to import nearly 300 kilograms of cocaine hidden in the arm of an excavator from South Africa.

ABC News

Who is Christian Brueckner? Madeleine McCann suspect and the accusations against him

German prisoner Christian Brueckner has been identified as a suspect in Madeleine’s case

The Independent UK

Criminal kingpin found dead in his prison cell

Kock was jailed for 25 years after using a fake pond-liner business as cover to import up to 6,000kg of cocaine into Liverpool

Manchester Evening News

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Killer ex-soldier wanted after breaching licence on release from prison

He had been back in prison on other offences

Wales Online

‘So happy’: Man declared innocent after 33 years in US jail

Daniel Saldana was convicted in 1990 of attempted murder, but evidence emerged that he was not even at the scene.

Al Jazeera

Byker serial knifeman caught carrying blade for fifth time given chance of freedom

Jordan Akinforlarin, of Byker, was facing prison but a judge freed him and gave him five months to prove his promises to go straight are true

Chronicle Live

Los Angeles area man wrongfully convicted of shooting freed from prison after 30-plus years

LOS ANGELES — A 55-year-old Baldwin Park man was freed from state prison earlier this month after prosecutors and parole officials uncovered years-old evidence that pointed to his innocence in a 1989 shooting, officials announced Thursday.

Los Angeles Times

Shameless Scots prisoners film rap video behind bars on smuggled smartphone

The shameless inmates filmed themselves rapping and dancing at HMP Addiewell in the video uploaded to TikTok.

Daily Record

Daniel Saldana declared innocent of attempted murder after 33 years in California prison

Daniel Saldana, 55, is freed from a California prison after prosecutors discovered evidence that indicated he was innocent of a shooting in 1989.

ABC News

Puffing Billy train enthusiast molested young boys

A train enthusiast who sexually abused two young boys when they volunteered for Puffing Billy has had a jail sentence suspended because of health issues.

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The Independent UK

Man declared innocent of attempted murder after 33 years in California prison

A California man who spent 33 years in prison for attempted murder has been declared innocent

The Independent UK

‘QAnon Shaman’ Jacob Chansley says he’s ‘forgiven my captors’ after Jan 6 prison release

Jacob Chansley served about two years of a 3.5-year sentence

Edinburgh Live

Shameless West Lothian prison inmates post music video on social media from cell

The TikTok clip, which has received over 10,000 views since it was uploaded earlier this month from HMP Addiewell shows several inmates in the cell while one performs part of a rap song

Liverpool Echo

Drug baron who imported £1bn of cocaine found dead in prison cell

Johnny Gerrard Kock used a fake pond-liner business to import up to 6,000kg of cocaine to Liverpool

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The New Daily

Defiant far-right leader jailed over role in US Capitol attack

The founder of the Oath Keepers group has been sentenced to 18 years in jail over his role in the US Capitol riots.

The Texas Tribune

Stewart Rhodes, the Texas-based leader of the Oath Keepers militia, given 18 years in prison for sedition

Rhodes was among the many Texans who played key roles in fomenting, planning or fueling the Jan. 6, 2021, violence at the U.S. Capitol.

The Conversation

Oath Keepers founder sentenced to 18 years for seditious conspiracy in lead-up to Jan. 6 insurrection – 4 essential reads

Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the Oath Keepers, was sentenced to 18 years in prison on May 25, 2023, in the wake of his November 2022 conviction for seditious conspiracy. Rhodes led an effort to keep former President Donald Trump in office after Trump lost the 2020 presidential election, including…

The Independent UK

Mother admits to killing daughter, 3, and dumping her charred remains on softball field

A Delaware woman is facing decades in prison

Chicago Sun-Times

Man awarded $27 million for wrongful murder, arson conviction

Adam Gray was arrested at 14 and spent 24 years behind bars. He filed a federal lawsuit against the city and the cops he said framed him and coerced his confession.

Chicago Sun-Times

Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes gets 18 years for seditious conspiracy in Jan. 6 attack

In remarks before the judge handed down his sentence, Stewart Rhodes called himself a “political prisoner.”

Tribune News Service

Oath Keepers chief gets 18 years for Jan. 6 plot to attack US Capitol

The leader of the right-wing Oath Keepers group was ordered to serve 18 years in prison for his role in the 2021 attack on the US Capitol and conspiring to use force to keep Donald Trump in power after he lost the 2020 presidential election.

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