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Criminal turns new leaf after being diagnosed with neurodisability, calls for better screening in prisons

An ex-convict who spent most of four decades in different prisons urges the West Australian government to improve screening for cognitive disabilities in the justice system.

ABC News

The criminals locked up in Greater Manchester this week

Thomas Campbell's killers were among those jailed in our region

Manchester Evening News

Clinical psychologist warns Daniel Duggan’s detention conditions ‘extreme and ‘inhumane’ as wife launches UN complaint

Former US marine’s segregated, maximum security imprisonment is unjustified, wife says

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Sexy lingerie confiscated from female prisoners smuggling it in on day release

Female prisoners out on day release were bringing back push-up bras and lacy knickers, which were later deemed to be contraband and confiscated by officers

Daily Mirror

Vulnerable asylum seekers 'prisoners in their own homes' after fleeing war zones

As many asylum seekers say they have been placed in unsuitable properties littered with tripping hazards, an expert blamed the system which she says 'creates a hostile environment'

Daily Mirror

Rapist from Manchester branded a 'dangerous sexual predator' dies during life sentence at 'Monster Mansion'

Robin Crago, from Withington, was locked up in 2006

Manchester Evening News

Marco Pierre White's son turns to Islam after being jailed for heroin possession

Marco Pierre White Jr, 28, was recently released from prison and has converted to a new faith to keep him off the drugs.

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Mega-prison in El Salvador where 40,000 suspected gangsters crammed in side by side

El Salvador has had a problem with gang-related violence for decades, but the South American country's new President Nayib Bukele has promised a crackdown on crime, and has already rounded up 63,000 gangsters and thrown most in jail

Daily Mirror

Mum wakes up screaming at night after horror of seeing son's beaten lifeless body

In a victim impact statement Liverpool Crown Court heard how Michael Toohey’s mum begged for paramedics to save her son as he lay lifeless on the floor

Daily Mirror

Former US pilot Daniel Duggan's 'degrading' Australian prison conditions raised with United Nations

Daniel Duggan, an Australian citizen, was arrested in October by federal police in NSW at the request of American authorities, who accuse him of helping train the Chinese military to fly jet fighters.

ABC News

Jonathan Bernstein: Ex-felons deserve the right to vote

Minnesota this month became the latest state to restore voting rights to ex-felons once they are released from prison. Democrats around the U.S. have been pushing to reduce or eliminate restrictions on voting, in particular fighting to extend voting rights to people on parole or probation. Many Republicans have been…

Tribune News Service

Man who drugged and raped woman during campaign of abuse jailed

Frederick Allchorne was senteced to 22 years in prison on Friday

Evening Standard

Five jailed for murder of 18-year-old man as grieving mum wakes up 'screaming' from PTSD nightmares

Michael Toohey's was beaten to death by a gang of four men in April last year and his heartbroken mother has been left suffering with nightmares.

Daily Record

R. Kelly’s ‘one more year’ is another slight for the R&B singer’s victims

If he survives, Kelly will be an old man when he walks out of prison. I can’t predict the future, but more than likely, Kelly will never have the fame and fortune that allowed him to lure underage girls into a sexual trap.

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Daily Mirror

Marco Pierre White's troubled son converts to Islam to stay off heroin after prison release

Former reality star Marco Pierre White Junior, 28, was released from HMP Bristol last week and he’s claimed to have vowed to never touch drugs again after his famous chef dad reportedly spent more than £1million on his rehabilitation

Manchester Evening News

Mum wakes up screaming after seeing son's lifeless body on the floor

Four men and a boy, 14, have been jailed for life

AAP

Appeal to UN over ex-marine's incarceration

Lawyers for former marine Daniel Duggan have filed an official complaint with the UN over his ongoing incarceration in the NSW prison system.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Tunisia Sentences Algerian-French dissident to Jail in Absentia

French-Algerian activist Amira Bouraoui, whose "exfiltration" via Tunisia sparked a diplomatic incident with Paris, was sentenced in absentia on Friday to three years in prison for illegally entering Tunisia, her lawyer said. Bouraoui had been banned from leaving Algeria after being sentenced to two years in jail for "offending Islam"…

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Liverpool Echo

Mum wakes up screaming at night after seeing son's lifeless body on floor

Michael Toohey, 18, was found fatally injured at an internet café

The Canberra Times

Man allegedly rams police vehicle, charged with 32 offences after recent prison release

A 34-year-old man has faced court on multiple charges after he allegedly stole a vehicle, assaulted his partner, damaged her property, fled the scene and rammed a police vehicle.

Tribune News Service

20-year-old Georgia man found guilty of 2 felonies in Jan. 6 riot

A Milton, Georgia, man who made his way to the Senate floor during the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot faces a potentially lengthy prison sentence after a federal judge found him guilty of two felonies in a verdict delivered Friday in Washington, D.C.

Tribune News Service

Elizabeth Holmes gives birth to second child while seeking to further delay imprisonment

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has given birth to a second child as she seeks to delay her impending imprisonment for felony fraud, according to a court filing this week.

Tribune News Service

Nearly 800 died in SC jails and prisons from 2015-2021, report shows

Nearly 800 people died in South Carolina jails and prisons between 2015 and 2021, according to a new report from researchers at the University of South Carolina School of Law.

Liverpool Echo

Suspected Lidl shoplifter was escaped prisoner

Paul Clohessy spent 10 days on the run before being arrested

Los Angeles Times

Woman whose testimony led to Harvey Weinstein's LA rape conviction reveals identity

LOS ANGELES — In December, Harvey Weinstein was convicted in L.A. of the 2013 rape of "Jane Doe 1." On Thursday, he got a 16-year sentence that, added to the 23-year sentence he's been serving in New York, likely ensures the 70-year-old is in prison for life.

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