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Elizabeth Holmes loses battle to delay imprisonment

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes’ months-long battle to extend her freedom is over: A federal court judge on Tuesday denied her bid to delay imprisonment, ruling she must surrender April 27 to serve her sentence for felony fraud at a Texas prison camp.

Tribune News Service

Theranos' Elizabeth Holmes loses bid to stay out of prison

Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes has been rebuffed in her attempt to stay out of federal prison while she appeals her conviction for the fraud she committed while overseeing a blood-testing scam that exposed Silicon Valley’s dark side

The Independent UK

Brittney Griner Shares New Project About Her Imprisonment in Russia

The Mercury star was wrongfully detained in Russia from February to December 2022.

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Nottingham's Bella Ramsey to star in Jimmy McGovern’s BBC series 'Time'

The series will focus on life inside a women’s prison

Nottingham Post

The Sony Inzone H9 headset is so good I was sent to prison

I got to test out Sony’s Inzone H9 headset in the basement of a prison, and it finally made Resident Evil 4 remake scary.

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Elizabeth Holmes to begin 11-year prison sentence at end of month

Federal judge denies Theranos founder’s request to remain free while she appeals her conviction of fraud and conspiracy

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Thabo Bester's escape from a privately-run South African prison raises questions about corruption

Recently, South Africans were told about an extraordinary escape story – they learnt that a convicted rapist, Thabo Bester, had been at large for a year after he’d escaped from a privately-run maximum security prison. In May 2022 the Department of Correctional services reported that he had burnt to death…

The Conversation

Australian man’s jail sentence for writing critical letter to Pakistan military a ‘torment’ for family

Family of Hasan Askree, 53, who was jailed for five years in 2020, say case is a grave miscarriage of justice

The Guardian - AU

The Last of Us star Bella Ramsey to lead second season of BBC prison drama Time

The young actor will be going behind bars as she joins Jimmy McGovern’s critically acclaimed show

The Independent UK

Fyre Festival ‘1.5’: Billy McFarland claims he has funding for second festival

The first Fyre Festival was branded a fradulant disaster and led to Billy McFarland’s imprisonment

Evening Standard

Scots prison officer brings Christmas to thousands of kids while parents are in custody

Colin O’Flaherty was commended at a special ceremony in St James Palace, hosted by Princess Anne.

Daily Record

Dominic Raab could face action for contempt of court, judges say

Justice secretary acted unlawfully by preventing staff commenting on prisoners’ fitness for release

The Guardian - UK

Jodie Whittaker and Bella Ramsey lead Time series 2 cast

The BBC has announced the cast of Time series 2, with Doctor Who's Jodie Whittaker and The Last Of Us star Bella Ramsey among the lot.

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The Independent UK

Will Donald Trump run for president again in 2024?

American courts have now found Trump to be both a sexual abuser and a defendant on criminal charges

Daily Mirror

Twitch streamer gets engaged to prisoner after spending just 3 hours together

Twitch streamer Kim Eichenberger fell in love with criminal William McCarty after speaking to him through a 'Write a Prisoner' online platform - and is now counting down the days until his release

The Texas Tribune

Texas House budgets $545 million for prison air conditioning. The Senate hasn’t offered anything.

Sweltering heat has killed inmates, driven away prison workers and cost taxpayers millions in lawsuits. The House budget would provide air conditioning for 46 prisons, but it’s unclear if the Senate will sign on.

WEKU

A judge rules that Elizabeth Holmes cannot remain free during appeal

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes was convicted of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud last year and sentenced to 11 years in prison.

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He says U.S. troops abused him in Iraq's Abu Ghraib and his life is still ruined

This Iraqi man says that 20 years after appearing in a notorious photo in U.S. detention in Abu Ghraib prison, his family lives in shame and poverty, never receiving U.S. compensation or apologies.

Daily Mirror

Iranian prison guards break knees of woman, 70, locked up in notorious Evin jail

Mahvash Sabet Shahriari was brutally battered during interrogation after being sentenced to 10 years in Tehran's notorious Evin jail - which also housed freed Brit Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - for anti-government protests

AAP

Prisons locked down as union pushes government on staff

Corrections officers have locked down prisons in South Australia claiming the new government has failed to address their concerns about staff shortages.

The Guardian - AU

Dozens of Australian politicians urge US to abandon Julian Assange extradition

In open letter, 48 MPs and senators warn ‘closest strategic ally’ that pursuit of WikiLeaks founder ‘set a dangerous precedent’

Tribune News Service

‘Ridiculously ashamed’: Kansas man with long list of convictions sentenced in Capitol riot

Kasey Hopkins got right to the point in his recent letter to U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan expressing remorse for his involvement in the Capitol riot.

The Independent UK

Kremlin opponent defiant in statement during treason trial

Jailed Kremlin opponent Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr. is likening judicial proceedings against him to the sham Stalin-era and later proceedings that condemned his countrymen to prison or death sentences

Irish Mirror

Convicted killer Derek McNamara dies at home just weeks after prison release

Mr McNamara was given a life sentence in Limerick Prison in 2006 after being found guilty by a jury at the Central Criminal Court of murdering Martin O'Donoghue

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