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Biden nominee was praised for helping free Kevin Strickland. It’s now being used against her

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kate Brubacher’s work to free Kevin Strickland from prison, overturning the longest known wrongful conviction in Missouri history, won her praise in Kansas City. But that work may be slowing down her confirmation to become the U.S. attorney for the District of Kansas.

Tribune News Service

Egypt's model prison rife with abuses, inmates' families and activists say

A new prison which Egypt touted as a model for reform and which holds some of its most prominent prisoners denies inmates healthcare and subjects them to punitive treatment including isolation, relatives of those inside and rights groups say.

Reuters

'Imagining Freedom' will give $125 million to art projects focused on incarceration

Since 2020, the Mellon Foundation has given over $40 million to arts and humanities projects addressing mass incarceration. In all, it says, it will donate $125 million to such efforts.

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Ex-prisoner who had swastika tattooed on wrist aged 16 feels ‘reborn’ after its removal

Ilario Guiducci, 62, said he was ‘completely naive’ when he got the tattoo as a cadet in the Italian army

Wales Online

Commentary: How blasphemy laws are used to serve political ends

On Jan. 17, Pakistan’s National Assembly unanimously voted to expand the country’s laws on blasphemy, which already carried the death penalty for insulting the prophet Muhammad. Now anyone in Pakistan deemed to have insulted the prophet’s companions, which could include thousands of early Muslims, can face life imprisonment.

Los Angeles Times

Man freed after 28 YEARS for murder he always denied as 'evidence of innocence' found

Lamar Johnson was freed from jai after serving 28 years of a life sentence for a killing he didn't commit, after a Missouri judge overturned his conviction

Daily Mirror

Buffalo supermarket gunman set to receive life prison term

A white supremacist is set to be sentenced to life in prison for killing 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket

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Man freed after nearly three decades in prison as murder conviction overturned

A Missouri judge has overturned the conviction of a 50-year-old man who has served nearly 28 years of a life prison sentence for a killing that he says he didn’t commit

The Independent UK

Cooma 'gay prison' podcasters call for government apology for entrapment, persecution of homosexual men

They uncovered a shameful secret in the history of persecution of homosexuality in Australia, now the producers of The Greatest Menace podcast are pressing for a formal apology from the NSW government.

ABC News

Mum feared she was going to die during former prison officer's sex attack

The mum has spoken to The ECHO in the hope of encouraging other victims of sexual assault to report crimes to police

Liverpool Echo

UK's longest-serving female prisoner who killed love rival may be released after 35 years

Maria Pearson, now 66, stabbed her ex-partner's new girlfriend Janet Newton to death in a Hartlepool street in 1986 and reportedly could soon be released after 35 years in jail

Daily Mirror

One of the deadliest federal prison units is closing

The Bureau of Prisons is shutting down a unit at its newest penitentiary in Illinois, following an investigation by NPR and The Marshall Project that exposed it was rife with violence and abuse.

WEKU

Judge throws out Missouri man’s conviction, confirming his innocence in 1994 murder

Long before he had a graying beard, Lamar Johnson wrote to the St. Louis judge who oversaw his 1995 trial, saying he had received letters from another man admitting guilt to the murder for which he had just been convicted.

Tribune News Service

Report: Tech CEO who played in upscale golf events while employees went unpaid raided by FBI, charged with fraud

If he's found guilty of the charges, he could face up to 20 years in prison.

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California’s housing shortage is so bad a university is considering a floating barge as a dorm. Students call it ‘prison boat.’

“There are simply not enough housing options available either on campus or in the community,” a spokesperson for Cal Poly Humboldt confirmed to Fortune.

The Independent UK

Judge vacates conviction of man imprisoned nearly 3 decades

A Missouri judge has overturned the conviction of a 50-year-old man who has served nearly 28 years of a life prison sentence for a killing that he says he didn’t commit

Fortune

‘Pharma bro’ Martin Shkreli’s quest for a shelter cat doomed by TikTok braggadocio—and a lie on his application

“My past keeps haunting me,” Shkreli told Fortune of his run-in with a Queens shelter, adding that he’s “devastated” by his rejection.

Chicago Sun-Times

Ex-Bloomingdale Township highway commissioner gets prison for kickback scheme

Robert Czernek got more than three years in prison in bill-padding scam that bilked west suburban township out of more than $500,000.

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If Putin succeeds in Ukraine, NATO borders will 'no longer be an obstacle', warns Khodorkovsky

Former Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who served 10 years in prison on tax and fraud charges that many believe were politically motivated, spoke to FRANCE 24 from London, where he now lives in exile. Khodorkovsky said that while a "direct confrontation with NATO" was not part of Russian President…

Nottingham Post

HMP Lowdham Grange management changes hands in £264m deal

It had been run by Serco since it was opened in 1998

Wales Online

The moment a teen serving a driving ban rode his new e-scooter straight into a moving car

Ryan Thomas was charged with driving the scooter while banned from driving and has been sent to a young offenders institute for six months

The Independent UK

Increased prison sentences for pair who helped killers evade police

Kane Hull and Liam Porter went on the run for 10 days, including travelling to Ireland, before being arrested over the murder of Ryan Kirkpatrick.

Daily Mirror

Kenneth Noye's life of violence - two deaths and marriage to legal barrister's secretary

Career criminal Kenneth Noye lived a violent life of crime which resulted in the death of two innocent people. Here we take a closer look at his childhood, marriage and convictions

The Conversation

By policing history, Poland's government is distorting the Holocaust

In January 2018, the Polish parliament passed a law that imposed prison terms of up to three years of anyone who claimed Poles had any responsibility for or complicity in crimes committed by the Nazis during the Holocaust.

Los Angeles Times

San Quentin State Prison captain accused of sexually assaulting an unconscious person

A San Quentin State Prison captain was arrested last week on suspicion of sexually assaulting someone who was unconscious.

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