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Rapper Nipsey Hussle's killer is sentenced to 60 years to life in prison

Eric R. Holder Jr. will likely remain in jail for the rest of his life for the murder of Nipsey Hussle, a beloved figure in south LA who was killed in 2019 outside his clothing store.

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Court: News outlets didn't defame ex-coal CEO Blankenship

An appeals court has ruled that Fox News, CNN and other news outlets didn’t defame former coal executive Don Blankenship when they referred to him as a “felon."

The Independent UK

Woman gets 4+ years in jail for harming college schoolmates

A New York woman who admitted her role in an ex-convict’s decade-long plot to extort and sexually manipulate schoolmates of his daughter at Sarah Lawrence College has been sentenced to over four years in prison

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Crips gang member gets 60 years in prison for murder of rapper Nipsey Hussle

LOS ANGELES — A Crips gang member was sentenced to at least 60 years in prison Wednesday for killing beloved rapper Nipsey Hussle outside his clothing store in 2019.

Los Angeles Times

Sarah Lawrence sex cult member sentenced to 4.5 years in prison

Isabella Pollok was both a victim and ‘lieutenant’ of cult mastermind Larry Ray’s reign of terror over students at the elite New York liberal arts college

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Nipsey Hussle’s killer sentenced to 60 years to life in prison

A superior court judge handed down the sentence to Eric R. Holder Jr., 33, who was found guilty of the 2019 first-degree murder of the 33-year-old Grammy-nominated hip-hop artist.

Chicago Sun-Times

Disabled Scot a 'prisoner' in his own home for five months after lift breaks in tower block

Wheelchair user Donald Jackson, 60, has been trapped in his high rise flat in Greendykes House, Edinburgh, due to the elevator being broken.

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Drug dealers' empire rumbled after secret tiny prison phone uncovered

Ashley Blackett, 35, and then-girlfriend Jamey-Leigh Brook-Parkinson spoke about 'building our empire'

Manchester Evening News

West Belfast man spared jail after being unlawfully at large from jail

Judge says "experts more knowledgeable than I am feel that you are turning the corner and making progress in the right direction"

Belfast Live

Thomas Campbell's ex-wife jailed for 13 years as his killers face justice for beloved dad's brutal death

Coleen Campbell was one of the defendants to receive lengthy prison sentences for Thomas Campbell's death

Manchester Evening News

‘Changing the justice system’: Victorian Liberal Brad Battin goes from tough on crime to keeping people out of jail

Exclusive: former police officer says those who commit low-level crimes should not be in prisons

The Guardian - AU

Could R. Kelly essentially get a ‘life’ prison sentence?

R. Kelly wouldn’t be eligible for release until 2066, a year shy of his 100th birthday, if a federal judge accepts prosecutors’ recommendations at his upcoming sentencing hearing

The Independent UK

Northern Ireland prisons paramilitary separation won't be easy to scrap, MPs told

NI Affairs Committee told how prison officers continue to live under a severe threat of attack

Belfast Live

A law was meant to free sick or aging inmates. Instead, some are left to die in prison

Jimmy Dee Stout was serving time on drug charges when he got grim news early last year.

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The National (Scotland)

Prison service boss 'not at liberty to say' who made Isla Bryson decision

THE HEAD of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) is “not at liberty to say” who made the decision to send a transgender double rapist to a…

The Independent UK

Prison service chief ‘not at liberty to say’ who made Isla Bryson decision

The transgender rapist was initially taken to a female-only jail to await sentencing.

Daily Record

Scottish prison boss refuses to say who sanctioned Isla Bryson transfer to Cornton Vale

The head of the Scottish Prison Service denied she was leant on by SNP ministers to ensure trans rapist Bryson was transferred to a men's prison following public outrage.

Al Jazeera

Iran blames US for delay in prisoner swap deal

It remains unclear whether an agreement can be finalised as Tehran maintains Washington is acting in bad faith.

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Coatbridge dad fractured man's eye socket in 'random' stag do attack in Liverpool pub

Scott Carter, 32, was on a stag do and under the influence of cocaine and alcohol when he attacked his victim Aaron Suleman in the early hours of the morning in a Liverpool pub.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Two Berlin Festival Films Relive Torture in Iranian Prisons

In “Where God is Not”, Iranian filmmaker Mehran Tamadon´s unflinching account of the torture of former political prisoners in Iran, the director asks his interviewees to relive the horrors of their incarceration. The film – which opened at the Berlin International Film Festival on Saturday as part of a Tamadon…

The Independent UK

Rapper Nipsey Hussle’s convicted killer to be sentenced

A man convicted of gunning down rapper Nipsey Hussle is expected to get life in prison when he's sentenced Wednesday in a Los Angeles courtroom

The Independent UK

Alleged gang member pleads not guilty in California killings

A man with alleged ties to a California prison gang has pleaded not guilty to killing six people, including a teenage mother and her baby, last month at a central California home connected to a rival gang

The Independent UK

US plans to allow Medicaid for drug treatment in prisons

The Biden administration is planning to reverse longstanding policy and allow the use of Medicaid to treat jail and prison inmates' substance use disorders and certain other health conditions

Liverpool Echo

Drug dealer freed from prison on day release didn't go back for six months

Inmate said he failed to return after racking up cocaine debt and being pressured into becoming smuggler

The Independent UK

Graphic videos show inmate's pain as officers strap him down

Graphic videos filed in a Tennessee court show a death row inmate who has just returned from the hospital repeatedly telling officers that he is in pain as they strap him so tightly to a bed that his arms turn purple

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