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Prisoner broke fellow inmate's eye socket using tin of beans

Just weeks earlier he beat a cellmate black and blue with a kettle because he was snoring

Wales Online

County Durham mum feared her family would be killed as burgling trio 'ransacked' home

Paul David Routledge, 34, Robert Jones, 27, and Josh Ward, 23, 'terrorised' a family after they broke into their home in 2021

Chronicle Live

Tehran Announces Prisoner Swap Deal, Washington Denies

The 9th session of the Strategic Consultation Committee between the Sultanate of Oman and Iran was held in Muscat on Sunday in light of reports saying Tehran is exerting efforts to activate contacts with Washington for the return of indirect negotiations on the nuclear file. Also on Sunday, Iran announced…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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‘Navalny’ wins the Oscar, and director Daniel Roher blasts Putin and the war in Ukraine

LOS ANGELES — Daniel Roher just knocked Russian President Vladimir Putin off his high horse, dedicating his Oscar to political prisoners around the world.

Los Angeles Times

Oscar-winning director and Putin critic sends 'vital' message to Russian President

Navalny won the award for the Best Documentary Feature Film at tonight's Academy Awards, with director Daniel Roher dedicating the win to political prisoners around the world

Daily Mirror

Lack of mental health support for war veteran in jail

An ex-soldier is unlikely to receive the mental health treatment he needs in the foreseeable future in a Queensland jail, a Supreme Court judge has found.

AAP

Perth man on remand spends 15 days isolated at Casuarina Prison amid COVID-19 restrictions

A Perth man in Casuarina Prison on remand is forced to spend more than two weeks in isolation and solitary confinement after his cellmate contracts COVID-19, sparking criticism of staffing shortages and claims of a "system in chaos".

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Setting the scene for resolution

At the age of 18, Nat* was sent to prison. During his seven years in jail, his mother was the only person who visited him. Two months after Nat was released from prison, his mother tested positive for Covid-19. She died soon after. In a letter to his late mother,…

Bangkok Post

18 female prison officers fired for having flings with prisoners at Welsh jail

The Prison Officers’ Association said "the wrong kind of women" were being hired for what is a demanding role

Wales Online

Washington brands Iran prisoner swap agreement a ‘cruel lie’

Iran's claims they are on the brink of agreeing a prisoner exchange with the US are an "especially cruel lie", Washington says.

The New Daily

Iran, US to exchange prisoners ‘soon,’ foreign minister says

Iran and the U.S. will soon carry out a prisoner exchange, the Islamic Republic’s foreign minister said, in a deal that will likely involve dual U.S.-Iranian nationals detained in Tehran.

Tribune News Service

Reentry programs to help former prisoners obtain health care are often underused

When Matthew Boyd was released from a Georgia state prison in December 2020, officials sent him home without medicines he uses to manage chronic heart and lung conditions and high blood pressure, he said.

Tribune News Service

Iran signals US prisoner exchange could be close

US official denies claims by Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian that an initial deal has been reached.

Al Jazeera

Raul Romeva: Scotland and Catalonia WILL get our independence vote

SCOTLAND and Catalonia will legally vote on independence sooner or later, but it will take persistent demand to politically address the question,…

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Daily Mirror

Wild men fight with hammers and axes in cemetery, intrude on ceremony and spit on floor

A new video has emerged of men and boys fighting at Swansea's Morriston Cemetery, damaging gravestones and disruption funerals, while some people were paying tribute to their loved ones

Daily Record

Vile thugs fight with hammers and axes as violent chaos descends on cemetery

The pitched battles at Swansea's Morriston Cemetery on August 5, 2022 sparked a huge police investigation.

Glasgow Live

Dumbartonshire killer who butchered teenage mum died days after being found slumped in prison cell

A Fatal Accident Inquiry into the death of murderer Michael McArthur found he suffered a catalogue of health problems that led to his death from sepsis while serving life killing Amy Anderson.

Reuters

Mauritania says three fugitives killed after prison break

Three escaped detainees in Mauritania have been killed and one other detained after a shootout with security forces, the Mauritanian authorities said on Saturday.

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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

Liverpool Echo

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

Los Angeles Times

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.

Asharq Al-Awsat

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,…

WEKU

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.

Irish Mirror

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

The Guardian - UK

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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