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Two guards killed in gunfire as four break out of Mauritania jail

Four detainees escaped from the central prison in Mauritania's capital, Nouakchott, during a breakout in which two soldiers were killed in gunfire, the interior ministry said on Monday, describing the four as "terrorists".

Reuters

'We named our children for what we love - Bambi, Rocky films and Tyson Fury'

The family has also been inspired by other boxers TV show Prison Break and a punk band

Wales Online

Meet the Scots tattoo artist turned comedian touring the country's prisons

“I’ve went from fighting people to fighting for laughter.” Former amateur mixed martial arts fighter, tattoo artists and now comedian David…

The National (Scotland)

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Egypt sentences human rights activists to prison on terrorism charges

Human rights groups called the trial unfair. Egypt on Sunday sentenced 14 people, including rights activists, to prison terms ranging between five and 15 years on terrorism-related charges.

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Morning Mail: Torture claim in ACT prison, Australia Post backs big executive bonuses, Chris Rock talks slap

An Indigenous woman alleges she was pinned down by prison officers who ignored warnings she couldn’t breathe

The Guardian - AU

Former Edinburgh prisoner told to spend week in jail after failing to turn up to court

He modelled himself on Jordan Belfort, the fraudster in The Wolf Of Wall Street film. Farr was jailed for 34 months in 2015 in Edinburgh for the solar panel con.

Edinburgh Live

Charles Bronson's plan upon release from prison as he bids for freedom

Charles Bronson is hoping a parole hearing next week will lead to his release

Liverpool Echo

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Buildings used iron from sunken ships centuries ago. The use of recycled materials should be business as usual by now

At Fremantle Prison in the 1850s, when metal was scarce, the prison gate and handrails were made from iron recovered from sunken ships. As I toured the prison recently, I reflected on how similar the situation was when COVID-19 disrupted building supply chains across Australia. The shortage of materials such…

The Conversation

UK urged to seek release of Tunisian opposition figure jailed in crackdown

Daughter of Said Ferjani, who lived in UK for more than 20 years, says he has been falsely imprisoned and asks MPs to intervene

The Guardian - UK

Care home spent severely disabled man’s money on women’s clothes, cosmetics and toys he could not use

"When I actually got into his bedroom, I could see it was bare. It was like a prison cell, he was sitting in a broken wheelchair.”

Wales Online

Pedestrian jailed for manslaughter of cyclist fears she will be bullied in prison, friend claims

Auriol Grey fears she will be taunted for her disability, friend claims

The Independent UK

Feb 26 clash in Punjab's Goindwal Sahib prison: Jail superintendent among 5 officials arrested

CHANDIGARH: After the Goindwal Sahib jail incident video went viral on Sunday in which two gangsters were murdered in a clash between members of two rival gangs on February 26, the Punjab police have arrested jail superintendent Iqbal Singh Brar and four other prison officials out of the total seven…

The Times of India

Indigenous woman alleges she was subject to torture and inhuman treatment in ACT prison

Julianne Williams will tell court she was forcibly strip-searched despite informing guards she couldn’t breathe and was experiencing pains in her chest

The Guardian - AU

Woman who caused death of pavement cyclist risks losing home as neighbours reveal she is a 'loner'

Auriol Grey, 49 was sentenced to three years in prison on Thursday for causing the death of cyclist Celia Ward, 77 after she startled her and caused her to fall into oncoming traffic.

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Cyclist pavement killer fears she will be bullied and abused by inmates in jail, claims friend

Auriol Grey, 49, was jailed for three years last week after being convicted of the manslaughter of cyclist Celia Ward, 77, who fell off her bike onto a busy road during a confrontation

Manchester Evening News

Charles Bronson says he can 'smell' and 'taste' freedom ahead of parole hearing

Dubbed one of Britain’s most violent offenders, Bronson has been in prison for much of the last 50 years

The Independent UK

Charles Bronson to make latest bid for freedom this week

The Parole Board review of one of the UK’s longest serving prisoners to decide whether he should remain behind bars begins on Monday

Daily Record

Isla Bryson's mum says transgender double rapist deserves 20 years in prison

Janet Bryson, a rape survivor, claimed the convicted sex attacker's eight-year sentence was not enough.

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Notorious prisoner Charles Bronson to face public parole hearing

The Parole Board review of one of the UK’s longest serving prisoners to decide whether he should remain behind bars begins on Monday.

The Guardian - AU

Daniel Duggan says he faces ‘gross injustice’ if extradited to US in speech from Sydney prison

The former US marine pilot urges his audience to ‘say no to politically charged extraditions of Australian citizens’

Manchester Evening News

The criminals locked up in Greater Manchester this week

A fraudster, drug dealers and gang members were among those sent to prison in our region

Manchester Evening News

'I witnessed my first murder aged 11 and I was stabbed and left for dead - now I fight gang culture'

Mark, from Moss Side, became a victim himself after leaving prison for armed robbery

Daily Mirror

Prisons defy national salad shortage as green-fingered inmates grow their own vegetables

As salad becomes increasingly hard to find in supermarkets, green-fingered inmates at The Verne, a men's prison on Dorset's Isle of Portland, have harvested their own, including a whopping 1,300 lettuces

Salon

Trump drops single with J6 Prison Choir

The song, titled “Justice for All,” features Trump reciting the Pledge of Allegiance

Daily Record

Convicted double killer Alex Murdaugh 'told cousin to shoot him in the back of the head'

Murdaugh who was sentenced to life in prison today for the murder of his 52-year-old wife Maggie and their son Paul, 22, in June 2021 previously asked his relative to shoot him in the back of the head.

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