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Mexican cartels' five WORST massacres from burning down casino to bloody prison riot

The drug cartels, such as the fearsome Los Zetas based in Tamaulipas state, Mexico, that run the drug routes into the US wage nearly constant war with the authorities, rival cartels and even between internal factions

Daily Mirror

Prison nurse struck up relationship with drug boss inmate that led to luxury lifestyle

Georgia Harkness, from St Helens, met criminal Ashley Blackett while she was a nurse at HMP Risley in Warrington back in 2017

Daily Mirror

Convicted killer who helped stop rampaging terrorist who stabbed two people to death awarded Queen's bravery medal

John Crilly was attending a prisoner rehabilitation event when Usman Khan struck

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Former Air Force officer gets prison term for Jan. 6 Capitol attack

Larry Brock of Texas joined other rioters on the Senate floor only minutes after then-Vice President Mike Pence, senators and their staff fled to escape the mob attacking the building on Jan. 6, 2021.

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Rights Groups: Iran Executes 7 Kurds, Including 'Political Prisoner'

Iran on Friday hanged a Kurdish man viewed as a political prisoner by activists, rights groups said, amplifying alarm over the soaring number of executions in the country this year. Mohayyedin Ebrahimi, 43, was hanged at dawn at Urmia prison in northwestern Iran, the Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) and…

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Prison warden quits job to continue fling after falling in love with convicted killer

Mum Andrea Ferreyra has quit her job as a prison warden after falling in love with inmate Javier Duarte, who is serving a 15-year term for murder - with the couple planning to marry

Daily Mirror

Mother cries out in court after second-youngest defendant in Jan. 6 riot gets 3 1/2 years

A North Carolina man, the second youngest defendant in more than 1,000 arrests linked to the deadly riot at U.S. Capitol, will spend the next three years of his early adulthood behind bars.

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Mum funded life of designer clothes through drug boss boyfriend

The couple met when Ashley Blackett was serving time and Georgia Harkness worked as a prison nurse

Liverpool Echo

Elizabeth Holmes’ judge says he won’t rule on her prison date till early next month

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes’ bid to stay out of prison past her scheduled April 27 incarceration date remains in play after her judge said Friday he would not issue an order until early next month.

Tribune News Service

Judge to decide in April whether to delay prison for Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes

Holmes was sentenced to 11 years in prison for defrauding investors out of more than $100 million. Now, she has asked a judge to remain free on bail until her appeal is heard.

WEKU

Elizabeth Holmes returns to court in bid to avoid prison

Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes has made what might be her final court appearance before beginning a 11-year prison sentence

The Independent UK

An Oregon Man Was Wrongly Imprisoned for Almost a Year Because of an Error in a DMV Database

The Oregon DMV knew about the problem, but it "wasn't at a high enough level to understand the urgency" of the need to fix it.

Reason

Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Herring monitors, state-created dangers, and kicking out the jams.

Reason

ISIS 'Beatle' is moved to supermax prison after mental health appeal fails

El Shafee Elsheikh was sentenced in August to a full-life stretch, and has now been sent to ADX Florence in Colorado to serve out his sentence

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Former Air Force officer gets prison term for Capitol attack

A retired Air Force officer who stormed the U.S. Capitol dressed in combat gear and carried zip-tie handcuffs into the Senate gallery has been sentenced to two years in prison

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Derek Chauvin, Minneapolis officer who killed George Floyd, pleads guilty in tax case

MINNEAPOLIS — The former Minneapolis police officer imprisoned for the murder of George Floyd plead guilty Friday in Washington County District Court to two counts of tax evasion.

Manchester Evening News

He's a very bad influence on you'... Prison nurse who struck up relationship with drug boss inmate lived luxury lifestyle, splashing cash on designer clothes and an Audi A5

Georgia Harkness first met Ashley Blackett in prison

Daily Mirror

Inside Abu Ghraib prison where US tortured Iraqi detainees in horrendous war crimes

WARNING DISTRESSING CONTENT: On March 20, 2004, the US and UK Coalition invaded Iraq on the false belief that dictator Saddam Hussein was manufacturing weapons of mass destruction and planned to use them on his own people

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Rep. Harold Rogers brings influence to appropriations role

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden kicked off the fiscal 2024 appropriations process last week with a budget request that renewed a proposal to eliminate funding for the construction of a new federal prison in eastern Kentucky.

Wales Online

Prisoners serving whole life sentences would be banned from marrying under new plan

The move would likely be challenged

The Independent UK

Whole life sentence prisoners face ban from marrying under Government plans

It comes amid anger over a bid by Levi Bellfield to challenge a decision blocking the serial killer from marrying in prison.

Chicago Sun-Times

Former Illinois prison guard gets 20-year sentence for fatal beating

In pleading for leniency Alex Banta said he took a job as a prison guard at 23 and had no idea how it would change him.

The Independent UK

Dominic Raab’s warning over serial killer Levi Bellfield’s prison marriage bid

The Justice Secretary said there was a risk to anyone wanting to marry such an offender.

Daily Mirror

Charles Bronson speaks in prison tapes - Tom Hardy, sex fantasies and violence

WARNING - OFFENSIVE CONTENT: Charles Bronson, 70, recalls extraordinary events during nearly 50 years in jail - from meeting Tom Hardy, his sex fantasy should he get out of prison and alleged brutality he faced behind bars

Radio France Internationale

Supporters of jailed Russian dissident Navalny recreate his cell in Paris

The support team of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny have installed a small concrete box marked with the word SHIZO (meaning punishment cell in Russian) behind the Louvre Museum in Paris, to try and raise awareness over his dire conditions of detention.

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