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Prisoners serving whole life sentences would be banned from marrying under new plan

The move would likely be challenged

Wales Online

Whole life sentence prisoners face ban from marrying under Government plans

It comes amid anger over a bid by Levi Bellfield to challenge a decision blocking the serial killer from marrying in prison.

The Independent UK

Former Illinois prison guard gets 20-year sentence for fatal beating

In pleading for leniency Alex Banta said he took a job as a prison guard at 23 and had no idea how it would change him.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Dominic Raab’s warning over serial killer Levi Bellfield’s prison marriage bid

The Justice Secretary said there was a risk to anyone wanting to marry such an offender.

The Independent UK

Charles Bronson speaks in prison tapes - Tom Hardy, sex fantasies and violence

WARNING - OFFENSIVE CONTENT: Charles Bronson, 70, recalls extraordinary events during nearly 50 years in jail - from meeting Tom Hardy, his sex fantasy should he get out of prison and alleged brutality he faced behind bars

Daily Mirror

Supporters of jailed Russian dissident Navalny recreate his cell in Paris

The support team of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny have installed a small concrete box marked with the word SHIZO (meaning punishment cell in Russian) behind the Louvre Museum in Paris, to try and raise awareness over his dire conditions of detention.

Radio France Internationale

Anita Chabria: 'Ending San Quentin as we know it': California rethinks what prison means

CHESTER, Pa. — Luis went to prison on a life sentence 16 years ago, at age 17. Food came on a tray and leftovers were removed on the same brown plastic rectangle.

Los Angeles Times

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Former Guantanamo prisoner: Ron DeSantis watched me being tortured

Mansoor Adayfi says the brutal force-feeding methods employed on Guantanamo prisoners like him amounted to torture. He tells Richard Hall that Ron DeSantis watched it happen

The Independent UK

Iran Rearrests Female Activist Hours After her Release

Iranian security forces rearrested prominent activist and journalist Sepideh Gholian hours after she walked free from jail chanting slogans against supreme leader Ali Khamenei, activists said Thursday. Gholian, 28, was freed Wednesday from Tehran's Evin prison after spending over four years behind bars following a conviction related to her reporting…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Jim Gordon, a famed session drummer who was convicted of killing his mother, dies

Jim Gordon, the famed session drummer who backed Eric Clapton and The Beach Boys before being diagnosed with schizophrenia and going to prison for killing his mother, has died. He was 77.

WEKU

California will remake San Quentin prison, emphasizing rehab

California Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to transform San Quentin State Prison, a facility in the San Francisco Bay Area known for maintaining the highest number of prisoners on death row in the country

The Independent UK

‘Ending San Quentin’: plan would turn prison into ‘Norwegian style’ rehab center

Gavin Newsom wants to overhaul California’s oldest prison into a facility focused on training programs and education

The Guardian - US

Man must spend 14 years in jail for ex-partner's murder

A man who killed his ex-partner and left her body in a bathtub has been sentenced to at least 14-and-a-half years in prison after pleading guilty to murder.

AAP

Wife killer will likely spend rest of life in prison

John Douglas Bowie, who murdered his wife more than four decades ago, will likely die in custody after being sentenced to 24 years in prison in NSW.

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The Independent UK

California to transform prison with death row legacy

California Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to transform San Quentin State Prison, a facility in the San Francisco Bay Area known for maintaining the highest number of prisoners on death row in the country

Chicago Sun-Times

CPS’ ex-chief of staff gets probation for lying to feds about bribes from Roberto Caldero

Pedro Soto was facing up to six months in prison after pleading guilty. But a judge issues a lighter sentence of 18 months’ probation, citing his cooperation with the feds.

The Canberra Times

Smoking to be banned in Canberra's prison by mid-year

Corrections Minister Mick Gentleman said the ban would be implemented in a measured way.

Wales Online

Who is Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and why was she jailed?

Now 44, Nazanin has been out of prison for a year - but her earlier imprisonment continues to impact her life

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The Independent UK

Illinois prison guard gets 20 years for inmate beating death

A former state corrections officer has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for his role in the beating death of a prison inmate in May 2018

The Independent UK

3 dead in rioting blamed on gangs in Brazil's northeast

National guard troops are patrolling northeastern Brazil after three nights of rioting allegedly ordered by imprisoned gang members that has left windows smashed, buses ablaze and at least three people dead

The Independent UK

Man who cut heart out of woman he killed before murdering two more people, including a child, jailed for life

Lawrence Paul Anderson, 44, was jailed for the 2021 murders of Andrea Blankenship, 41, Leon Pye, 67, and Kaeos Yates, four

Chicago Sun-Times

Brothers who spent decades in prison for 1994 murder will wait for ruling on innocence

Brothers Reginald Henderson and Sean Tyler were convicted of a 1991 murder in Back of the Yards but claim they were tortured by detectives.

The Independent UK

Oklahoman pleads guilty to killing 3, cutting heart from one

An Oklahoma man has pleaded guilty to killing three people, including a woman whose heart was cut from her body, weeks after being released from prison

Los Angeles Times

At this California prison, 'we are no longer prisoners. We are professionals'

LANCASTER, Calif. — Before the graduates strode in to the strains of "Pomp and Circumstance," their prison blues peeking out from under their gowns, correctional officer John Janvrin encouraged them not to rush.

Daily Mirror

'Calculating' killer who filmed stepson, 3, dying on floor then sent chilling text jailed

Leila Borrington assaulted her three-year-old stepson Harvey causing him a fatal head injury at their home in Jacksdale, Nottinghamshire - today she was sentenced to prison

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