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Prison officer who abused detention centre inmate in 1970s too ill to be jailed

Alexander Flavell, 89, is the eighth member of staff from Medomsley Detention Centre near Consett, County Durham, to be successfully prosecuted.

The Independent UK

Prison visits on the horizon as Corrections staff numbers look set to lift

Corrections is quietly confident its staffing woes are on the way out, but it will still be months before visits are reinstated at all prisons

Newsroom.co.nz

The man who claimed he genetically engineered babies just got out of a Chinese prison for practicing without a license and he's eyeing a comeback

Experts are worried his new venture might prey on another vulnerable group.

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Prison Deaths Spiked by Almost 50 Percent During Early Months of COVID-19 Pandemic

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Reason

The Night Manager, The Responder, Vigil and all the BBC dramas returning you didn’t expect

Time, Boiling Point and The Tourist are also shows that viewers did not expect to return

Wales Online

Who is Charles Bronson and why has he spent almost 50 years behind bars?

Charles Bronson is one of the UK's longest serving prisoners, having spent almost 50 years behind bars

Liverpool Echo

Killer who blew up journalist let out of jail for party with family

Daphne Caruana Galizia was called a 'one-woman WikiLeaks' who led the Panama Papers investigation and her blogs often attracted more readers than Malta's entire newspaper circulation

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Glasgow transgender rapist Isla Bryson jailed for eight years after sex attacks on two women

The 31-year-old was sentenced at Edinburgh High Court today for the horrific attacks on two women while still living as a man. A decision to house Bryson in a women's prison was overturned following an outcry.

Glasgow Live

Transgender rapist Isla Bryson jailed for eight years

The case sparked uproar after Bryson was initially housed in an all-female prison

The Independent UK

China should scrap ‘picking quarrels’ crime, says leading lawyer

Suggestion to abolish catch-all offence will be among thousands considered at Chinese Communist party summit

The Guardian - UK

Police appeal for help to find thief, 44, wanted on recall to prison

Anita McGarry was released from jail last month

Manchester Evening News

Texas inmates say ‘decade after decade’ of solitary confinement is torture

Prisoners who joined hunger strike to protest extreme conditions describe the damage isolation inflicts on mental health

The Guardian - US

Notorious prisoner Charles Bronson says he can ‘taste freedom’ ahead of parole hearing

Bronson features in a new two-part documentary from Channel 4.

Evening Standard

Mafia boss caught on camera escaping jail using bedsheets

Marco Raduano was serving an 18-year sentence for drug trafficking

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Al Jazeera

India terror law haunts Muslims jailed since 2020 for Delhi riots

Activists and family members of those in jail for 2020 violence say ‘draconian’ UAPA is being misused to deny them bail.

AAP

Guard suffers 'fractured skull' in WA youth prison riot

Western Australia's government will look at shifting youth detainees to adult prisons once they turn 18 after four officers were injured in a riot.

Daily Record

Scots pensioner left 'prisoner in own home' after leg amputation

Linda Allan has been waiting to be moved by North Ayrshire Council after spending the last six months trapped in her living room.

The Independent UK

Charles Bronson says he can ‘taste freedom’ ahead of public parole hearing

Bronson features in a new two-part documentary from Channel 4.

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Daily Mirror

UK's longest-serving female prisoner to STAY behind bars after losing freedom bid

Maria Pearson, who stabbed her ex-boyfriend's new partner 17 times in 1986, was also denied a move to an open prison having initially been sentenced to a minimum of 11 years behind bars

The Independent UK

Andrew Tate held for third month in Romanian prison after losing latest appeal

‘They weaponise lies to keep me in here. But you cannot hide the sun forever,’ he tweeted after losing latest appeal

Tribune News Service

Idaho could pursue executions by firing squad. Here’s how much it would cost

BOISE, Idaho — The cost of implementing a bill that seeks to make the firing squad Idaho’s backup execution method has more than doubled since it was last reviewed by the state prisons system, according to a spokesperson for the agency.

Manchester Evening News

Prison officer catches out Forest Bank inmate and woman, 19, in visitor's area

Anthony Daly, who refused to attend court from HMP Forest Bank, was jailed for a further 30 months

Irish Mirror

Gardaí issue warning after woman spots hidden camera in shower and man jailed

The photo was taken via a hidden camera in her shower, and the man responsible was sentenced to 12 months in prison

USA Today Sports Media Group

Woman lands 16-year prison sentence for trafficking lion parts

A Mozambique court has sentenced a Vietnamese woman to 16 years in prison for possession and trafficking of lion and rhinoceros parts.

Chronicle Live

Newcastle pervert with more than 1,000 sex abuse images of kids was Lib Dem city councillor

David Besag, who represented the Walkergate ward for six years, was last week given a suspended prison sentence

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