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Flikshop App Teaches Tech Entrepreneurship, Helps Incarcerated People Stay In Touch With Loved Ones

Potential for app to help reduce recidivism, make communities safer

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'Hotel Rwanda' hero Rusesabagina freed from Rwandan jail

Paul Rusesabagina, who was portrayed as a hero in the film "Hotel Rwanda," was released from a Rwandan prison on Friday, U.S. officials said, after his sentence was commuted following intense diplomacy by the United States.

Reuters

Belfast's Core Systems snapped up by US firm for undisclosed sum

It provides software for prisons and justice systems throughout the world

Birmingham Post

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'Keep away from knives and don't break your mum's heart', judge tells defendant

Judge James Patrick spares Romaine Mullings from prison and urges him to stay out of trouble

Bristol Post

'Hotel Rwanda' hero Rusesabagina to be freed from prison

Rwanda said on Friday it has commuted the 25-year jail sentence against ailing "Hotel Rwanda" hero Paul Rusesabagina, a fiercely outspoken critic of President Paul Kagame who has been held behind bars for more than 900 days.

France 24

Utah Law Gives Parents Full Access to Teens' Social Media

Plus: Theatrics at the House hearing on TikTok, doomsday merger predictions haven't panned out, and more...

Reason

Glasgow woman terrified as violent ex in Spanish prison appeals to be sent back to Scotland

Mhairi Campbell is terrified after her ex, William McDonald, who tried to murder her at his holiday home in Alicante has requested to be repatriated to Scotland to continue his jail sentence.

Glasgow Live

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'A 23-stone man stomped, punched and choked me... I'm terrified if he is let out of prison he will find me'

Thomas Parry made his victim feel like she 'was going to die' during a horrific assault then warned her, 'I can get way way way worse'

Manchester Evening News

Commentary: Denying access to parole in Illinois hurts the health of communities in and outside prison

The Illinois House Judiciary Criminal Committee took a critical step toward achieving long overdue state prison reform this month by voting in favor of the Earned Reentry bill. Illinois is one of 16 states to have abolished or severely restricted discretionary parole. Illinois’ lack of parole is not only inhumane,…

Chicago Tribune

Russian officer sentenced to 6.5 years for deserting amid war he opposed

A Russian security officer who fled the country because he objected to the invasion of Ukraine has been sentenced to six-and-a-half years in high-security prison, the Taiga.info news website reported on Friday.

Reuters

Freed French-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah still unable to leave Iran

Six French nationals remain imprisoned in Iran. A seventh, the Franco-Iranian researcher Fariba Adelkhah, is no longer behind bars, having been released from Tehran's Evin prison in February. But the Iranian authorities have refused to return her identity papers, making it impossible for her to travel.

Radio France Internationale

Activists, everyday Russians and a soldier punished for war talk

Almost 500 Russians have been charged under wartime censorship laws. We look at 12 cases.

Al Jazeera

Sky’s live chat failed my daughter when it wouldn’t cancel her account

It was in her husband’s name but he was on remand in prison

The Guardian - UK

Daughter of Danish-Bahraini rights activist offers to take his place in prison

Maryam al-Khawaja says she fears her father Abdulhadi’s health is deteriorating in prison and condemns Denmark for inaction

The Guardian - UK

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The Independent UK

Is bringing back firing squads for executions a good idea?

The image of gunmen in a row firing in unison into the chest of a condemned prisoner may conjure up a bygone, less enlightened era

Daily Record

Scots beauty queen's terror as ex who tried to kill her in Spain appeals to be sent back to Scotland

William McDonald is serving a 14-year sentence for attempted murder in Spain but has requested to be moved to Scotland for the next 10 years.

Axios

Woman who stormed Pelosi's office sentenced to 3 years in prison

Riley June Williams had been accused of planning to sell a laptop or hard drive taken from Pelosi's office to Russia.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Pa. woman accused of aiding theft of Pelosi’s laptop during Jan. 6 riot sentenced to 3 years in prison

After Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, native Riley Williams was charged for her role in the Jan. 6 attacks, her lawyers downplayed her actions by saying she went to Washington with nothing but a “cellphone and her fuzzy zebra bag.”

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AAP

Room for improvement in ballooning prison system

A review of Victoria's adult prisons has found a strong argument for reform to improve safety for inmates and staff and step up rehabilitation prospects.

The Independent UK

Trump arrested? Putin jailed? Fake AI images spread online

Fake images of former President Donald Trump being arrested by New York City police and Russian President Vladimir Putin behind prison bars have flooded social media in recent days

Al Jazeera

Capitol riot: Woman accused of stealing Pelosi’s laptop sentenced

US prosecutors say Riley June Williams acted as an ‘accelerant’ who ‘exacerbated the mayhem’ on January 6, 2021.

Irish Mirror

Overcrowding crisis preventing prison bosses from housing 'dangerous' Barbie Kardashian on her own

Exclusive: Sources stressed that in spite of that, Kardashian, who is deemed to be a threat to women, is on an extremely strict solitary confinement regime of 21 hours a day in her cell - and she will never be allowed to mix with other inmates.

Daily Mirror

Boris Becker opens up on one-night stand with model that cost him marriage in documentary

Boris Becker has opened up about his tumultuous life on and off the court in a new documentary called 'Boom! Boom! The World vs. Boris Becker' following his release from prison

The Independent UK

Rioter charged in Pelosi laptop theft sentenced to prison

A Pennsylvania woman linked to a far-right extremist movement has been sentenced to three years in prison for storming the U.S. Capitol and invading then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office with other rioters

The Canberra Times

'Tried to do a Houdini': Failed prison escapees planned to use saw

The attempted escapees rappelled down their prison building block using bed sheets.

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