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Rehab on hold: COVID devastated prison learning programs

In a nation that incarcerates roughly 2 million people, the coronavirus pandemic was a nightmare for prisons

The Independent UK

Inside abandoned 'Alcatraz' home to murderers including killer who butchered 100

The abandoned Islas Marias prison, once dubbed Mexico's answer to Alcatraz, was almost impossible to escape thanks to its remote island location surrounded by shark-infested waters

Daily Mirror

Understanding mass incarceration in the US is the first step to reducing a swollen prison population

The incarceration rate in the United States fell in 2021 to its lowest levels since 1995 – but the U.S. continues to imprison a higher percentage of its population than almost every other country.

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Soap or a phone call? Colorado lawmakers want to make prison phone calls free so families don’t have to choose

DENVER — Norman Vasquez often has to choose between buying soap or calling his family while serving time at Colorado’s Arkansas Valley Correctional Facility.

The Denver Post

Russian parliament backs tougher, wider law on 'discrediting' the army

Russia's lower house of parliament on Thursday gave its initial backing to a law that would bring in longer prison sentences for anyone deemed to have discredited the Russian army and extend the legislation to cover the Wagner mercenary force.

Reuters

Edinburgh prisoner tries to get legal aid to appeal his conviction against murder

Beggs, who has so far cost the taxpayer more than £1 million in legal challenges, wanted taxpayers' money to force police to reveal information about their investigation into him.

Edinburgh Live

Bill Torpy: Jan. 6 ‘Kid’ faces prison due to a lapse from reality

Through the decades, I’ve sat in many courtrooms watching teary-eyed families stand before judges to beg for mercy on behalf of a convicted defendant.

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Bill on ‘Executing Prisoners’ Passes Preliminary Knesset Vote

The Knesset on Wednesday advanced a bill to impose the death penalty on Palestinian captives, approving it in its preliminary reading. The primary legislation stipulates that courts will be able to impose the death penalty on those who have committed a nationalistically motivated murder of an Israeli. According to the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

French woman 'obsessed' with joining Islamic State in Syria jailed for 12 years

A Paris court sentenced a French woman to 12 years in prison for two stays in Syria and territory controlled by the Islamic State armed group

Radio France Internationale

Ex-police prosecutor loses attempt to reduce sentence

A man who prosecuted sex offenders for Victoria Police while secretly filming a woman and teenage girl undressing will remain in prison after he lost an appeal.

AAP

Maurice Hastings, who was wrongly imprisoned for decades over 1983 murder, declared 'factually innocent' by US judge

Having spent decades behind jail for a murder he did not commit, Maurice Hastings is declared innocent of murder by a Los Angeles judge.

ABC News

LA man imprisoned for decades declared factually innocent

A Los Angeles man who spent more than 38 years behind bars for a 1983 murder he did not commit has been declared factually innocent

The Independent UK

Sirhan Sirhan who assassinated Robert F Kennedy in 1968 is denied parole

California board decide that the 78-year-old prisoner is not fit to be freed from prison yet

Wales Online

Trump supporter in plot to firebomb Sacramento Democratic HQ sentenced to prison

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — One of two Trump supporters behind a plot to firebomb Sacramento’s state Democratic Party headquarters was sentenced to prison Wednesday, but sentencing for the second was delayed after his attorney asked for the courtroom to be closed over concerns for his client’s safety.

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From Pentonville Prison to Barcelona - the extraordinary tales of Charlie Oatway, the street fighter rescued by Cardiff City

The former midfielder admits he owes his career to Cardiff City

Liverpool Echo

Prison officer in court charged with smuggling drugs into jail

Peter Hughes is charged with five offences

Tribune News Service

Sacramento sheriff reverses stance, agrees to provide warm clothing to jail inmates

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Sacramento Sheriff Jim Cooper has reversed his position on providing cold-weather gear to jail inmates, with the county informing advocates late Tuesday that the sheriff will use inmate welfare funds to buy warm clothing for all inmates, advocates say.

Wales Online

Paedophile breached court order by using neighbour's phone to access Facebook

Philllip Ethersee, 46, of Bridgend, was given a suspended prison sentence for attempting to engage in sexual communications with a child

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Ex-Just Eat driver denies selling drugs while delivering Big Macs as judge imposes two-month sentence

A two-month prison term was imposed on married father-of-one, Renan Ricardo Da Costa

The Guardian - US

Elizabeth Holmes gives birth to second child and seeks to delay prison sentence

Attorneys cite Theranos founder’s two children as reasons why she should be allowed to remain free while she appeals conviction

Tribune News Service

Georgia prisons see unprecedented number of suicides

ATLANTA — Georgia prisons set a record for inmate suicides last year, with 39 men and one woman taking their own lives, an analysis by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution shows.

Daily Mirror

Mum who was 'high on meth 24/7' shares how she turned her life around

Natalee King, from Florida, US, spent time in prison for drug-driving and suffered with depression after her late husband was crushed to death a truck during a tragic training accident in 2013

Evening Standard

Jailed gangland murderer sues government over claims prison officers broke his arm

Antoin Gray is claiming £20,000 for injury he says he sustained in clash with prison officers

Daily Mirror

ISIS brute who beheaded two female Western tourists found dead in his cell

Morocco’s prison service said on Tuesday that Abderrahim Khayali, 36, who was sentenced to death over the 2018 beheadings of two western women, had killed himself

The Independent UK

Suu Kyi's lawyers unable to meet with her to plan appeals

Lawyers for ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who is serving a 33-year prison sentence on what are widely seen as contrived charges, have been denied meetings with her as they prepare her appeals

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