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Aiden Fucci: Teen gets life in prison for brutal stabbing murder of classmate Tristyn Bailey

Aiden Fucci, 16, was not eligible for death penalty as murder was carried out when he was a juvenile

The Independent UK

Paul Rusesabagina, 'Hotel Rwanda' hero, released from prison

The man who inspired the novel and the Hollywood film Hotel Rwanda, Paul Rusesabagina, was released late Friday evening from prison after the Rwandan government commuted his sentence.

WEKU

Stephen Lawrence murder suspect earns £3,000-a-month as a courier after prison release

Jamie Acourt, 46, appeared at the City of London Magistrates' Court today over his failure to pay back £90,000 he made from a £3million drugs plot

Daily Mirror

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Man orders grizzly murder of his mistress - still gets signed by new football club

Goalie Bruno Fernandes ordered a gang to abduct actress and model Eliza Samudio, 25, who was later strangled to death before her body was butchered and fed to a pack of ravenous hounds in Brazil

Daily Mirror

Envoy made rare prison visits to three US citizens in China, official says

Chinese-American citizen Kai Li, jailed in China on spying charges he denies, received a rare in-person visit last week from the U.S. Ambassador to Beijing and urged the U.S. government to continue to work for his release, Li's son said on Friday.

Reuters

Florida teen gets life in prison for killing young classmate

A Florida judge has sentenced a 16-year-old Florida boy to life in prison for fatally stabbing a 13-year-old classmate

The Independent UK

Flikshop App Teaches Tech Entrepreneurship, Helps Incarcerated People Stay In Touch With Loved Ones

Potential for app to help reduce recidivism, make communities safer

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'Hotel Rwanda' hero Rusesabagina freed from Rwandan jail

Paul Rusesabagina, who was portrayed as a hero in the film "Hotel Rwanda," was released from a Rwandan prison on Friday, U.S. officials said, after his sentence was commuted following intense diplomacy by the United States.

Reuters

Belfast's Core Systems snapped up by US firm for undisclosed sum

It provides software for prisons and justice systems throughout the world

Birmingham Post

'Keep away from knives and don't break your mum's heart', judge tells defendant

Judge James Patrick spares Romaine Mullings from prison and urges him to stay out of trouble

Bristol Post

'Hotel Rwanda' hero Rusesabagina to be freed from prison

Rwanda said on Friday it has commuted the 25-year jail sentence against ailing "Hotel Rwanda" hero Paul Rusesabagina, a fiercely outspoken critic of President Paul Kagame who has been held behind bars for more than 900 days.

France 24

Utah Law Gives Parents Full Access to Teens' Social Media

Plus: Theatrics at the House hearing on TikTok, doomsday merger predictions haven't panned out, and more...

Reason

Glasgow woman terrified as violent ex in Spanish prison appeals to be sent back to Scotland

Mhairi Campbell is terrified after her ex, William McDonald, who tried to murder her at his holiday home in Alicante has requested to be repatriated to Scotland to continue his jail sentence.

Glasgow Live

'A 23-stone man stomped, punched and choked me... I'm terrified if he is let out of prison he will find me'

Thomas Parry made his victim feel like she 'was going to die' during a horrific assault then warned her, 'I can get way way way worse'

Manchester Evening News

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Chicago Tribune

Commentary: Denying access to parole in Illinois hurts the health of communities in and outside prison

The Illinois House Judiciary Criminal Committee took a critical step toward achieving long overdue state prison reform this month by voting in favor of the Earned Reentry bill. Illinois is one of 16 states to have abolished or severely restricted discretionary parole. Illinois’ lack of parole is not only inhumane,…

Reuters

Russian officer sentenced to 6.5 years for deserting amid war he opposed

A Russian security officer who fled the country because he objected to the invasion of Ukraine has been sentenced to six-and-a-half years in high-security prison, the Taiga.info news website reported on Friday.

Radio France Internationale

Freed French-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah still unable to leave Iran

Six French nationals remain imprisoned in Iran. A seventh, the Franco-Iranian researcher Fariba Adelkhah, is no longer behind bars, having been released from Tehran's Evin prison in February. But the Iranian authorities have refused to return her identity papers, making it impossible for her to travel.

Al Jazeera

Activists, everyday Russians and a soldier punished for war talk

Almost 500 Russians have been charged under wartime censorship laws. We look at 12 cases.

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The Guardian - UK

Sky’s live chat failed my daughter when it wouldn’t cancel her account

It was in her husband’s name but he was on remand in prison

The Guardian - UK

Daughter of Danish-Bahraini rights activist offers to take his place in prison

Maryam al-Khawaja says she fears her father Abdulhadi’s health is deteriorating in prison and condemns Denmark for inaction

The Independent UK

Is bringing back firing squads for executions a good idea?

The image of gunmen in a row firing in unison into the chest of a condemned prisoner may conjure up a bygone, less enlightened era

Daily Record

Scots beauty queen's terror as ex who tried to kill her in Spain appeals to be sent back to Scotland

William McDonald is serving a 14-year sentence for attempted murder in Spain but has requested to be moved to Scotland for the next 10 years.

Axios

Woman who stormed Pelosi's office sentenced to 3 years in prison

Riley June Williams had been accused of planning to sell a laptop or hard drive taken from Pelosi's office to Russia.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Pa. woman accused of aiding theft of Pelosi’s laptop during Jan. 6 riot sentenced to 3 years in prison

After Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, native Riley Williams was charged for her role in the Jan. 6 attacks, her lawyers downplayed her actions by saying she went to Washington with nothing but a “cellphone and her fuzzy zebra bag.”

AAP

Room for improvement in ballooning prison system

A review of Victoria's adult prisons has found a strong argument for reform to improve safety for inmates and staff and step up rehabilitation prospects.

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