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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.

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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.

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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 terrorist returned to jail for breaching notification requirements

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

Nottingham Post

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

The Independent UK

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.

Daily Record

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.

Evening Standard

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

Wales Online

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.

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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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Two Indonesian Match Officials Jailed over Deadly Football Stampede

An Indonesian court handed prison sentences to two football match officials on Thursday after finding them guilty of negligence over one of the world's deadliest stadium stampedes. The October 2022 derby match in Malang, East Java, between Arema FC and Persebaya Surabaya ended in chaos with 135 spectators killed, many…

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2 Indonesian soccer officials found guilty in one of the deadliest stadium stampedes

The match organizer and the security chief were handed down prison sentences Thursday in connection with a 2022 stampede that killed more than 130 people following a match in East Java.

AAP

Decades in jail for fatal suburban shooting spree

A man will spend up to 42 years in prison for a suburban shooting rampage which killed one man and injured many others on the NSW Central Coast.

Chicago Sun-Times

Delroy Lindo, Kerry Washington play out a fascinating dynamic in warmhearted ‘UnPrisoned’

The return of her father from lockup complicates a therapist’s already anxious life in the relatively light Hulu series.

ABC News

Bradley White, 42, sentenced for fatal shooting spree at Wyong on NSW Central Coast in 2020

Bradley White, 42, has been sentenced to 42 years in prison following the shooting spree in which a Central Coast town came under attack from a "haze of bullets" in March 2020.

Chicago Sun-Times

TV pitchman Kevin Trudeau says he wants to put case ‘behind me’ as judge weighs whether he’s hiding assets

Trudeau still owes $37 million to consumers who bought his diet book more than a decade ago.

The Texas Tribune

Texas bill requiring 10-year prison sentences for gun felonies faces opposition from criminal justice and firearm advocates

Under Senate Bill 23, all felonies involving a gun would incur a mandatory 10-year prison sentence. It’s meant to curb crime, despite the lack of correlation between harsher sentences and crime rates.

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