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Mother's death in custody raises prison healthcare concerns as family demands answers

The heartbroken family of a young woman who died in custody are trying to piece together what happened and say questions must be answered about her medical care in the lead up to her death.

ABC News

Man lost an eye after knife attack and 'relentless' beating at hands of friend in Nottingham

His attacker had recently been released from prison in Poland

Nottingham Post

Ex-convict who abused his daughter's college roommates gets 60 years in prison

An ex-convict who obtained millions of dollars by subjecting his daughter's ex-roommates at Sarah Lawrence College to forced labor and prostitution was sentenced Friday to 60 years in prison.

WEKU

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Sarah Lawrence sex cult leader Lawrence Ray sentenced to 60 years in prison

NEW YORK — Convicted sex cult leader Lawrence Ray was sentenced to 60 years in prison in Manhattan federal court Friday for terrorizing Sarah Lawrence college students and forcing them into prostitution.

Tribune News Service

Ex-convict who abused college women gets 60 years in prison

An ex-convict who obtained millions of dollars by subjecting his daughter's ex-college roommates to forced labor and prostitution has been sentenced to 60 years in prison

The Independent UK

Britain's most dangerous serial killer who is set to 'die in underground glass box'

Serial killer Robert Maudsley, now 69, has been locked away in a glass prison cell since 1979 after he was sent down for murder

Daily Mirror

Brit killer cannibal breaks world record after spending 16,400 days in solitary confinement

Robert Mawdsley has been in solitary confinement since 1979 and is Britain's longest serving prisoner, having been caged for 47 years for the murder of four men in the 1970s

Daily Mirror

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US ‘cult’ leader given 60 years in prison for sexual and emotional abuse

Larry Ray convicted in April of sex trafficking and racketeering stemming from abuse of young women at Sarah Lawrence College

The Guardian - US

Irving case prompts review of redress options for miscarriages of justice

Exclusive: Australia is alone among democracies who have not ratified UN provision enabling legal remedy for someone wrongfully convicted or imprisoned

The Guardian - AU

Lawmakers poised to renew push to criminalize Supreme Court leaks - Roll Call

A Supreme Court report on the leak of a draft opinion renewed an effort to criminalize leaking information from the high court.

Roll Call

Andrew Tate in prison for another month as Romanian police extend detention

Judge gives detectives more time to investigate claims of rape and trafficking

The Independent UK

Payroll manager at Chicago's Art Museum charged after $2 million fraud scheme

The former employee faces up to 100 years in prison for multiple charges.

Fortune

Why did Charles Manson order killings? NU psychologist, other experts offer a new take

Chicago psychologist Alan Friedman is among experts who reviewed a 1997 prison exam and are challenging the belief that Manson was schizophrenic. Manson was convicted of orchestrating the 1969 killings of actress Sharon Tate and six others in Los Angeles.

Chicago Sun-Times

French court convicts 14 of smuggling migrants from Sri Lanka to Europe

A court in northern France has sentenced 14 Sri Lankan nationals to prison for operating a people-smuggling ring across Europe – part of a continent-wide attempt to crack down on the lucrative criminal networks.

Radio France Internationale

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Former Algerian Minister Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison

A former Algerian energy minister was sentenced in absentia Thursday to 20 years in prison for corruption. Chakib Khelil headed the energy ministry for a decade under the late president Abdelaziz Bouteflika. The Sidi M’Hamed court in Algiers also issued on Thursday prison terms of between five and 10 years…

Manchester Evening News

Perverted loner who took hundreds of pictures of women's bottoms is now behind bars

Andrew Smoggie's pictures at Manchester Pride were a breach of his Sexual Harm Prevention Order

The Guardian - US

Court agrees with artist Peter Doig that ‘Pete Doige’ painting really isn’t his

An ex-prison guard claimed he owned a Doig original he bought for $100 and accused the artist of lying when he said he didn’t paint it

Tribune News Service

Appreciation: David Crosby, dead at 81, saw the end was coming: 'I don’t have a lot of time'

David Crosby knew his days were numbered at least several years before his death was reported Thursday.

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The Conversation

Australia's twice extended deadline for torture prevention is today, but we've missed it again

Today marks the (already twice extended) deadline for Australia to meet its international obligation to implement torture prevention bodies. The role of these bodies is to monitor treatment and conditions in places where people are deprived of their liberty, like prisons and detention centres.

ABC News

Former NSW police sergeant sentenced to four months in prison over child sexual abuse images

Judge Ian Bourke accepted the former policeman was searching for the sexually suggestive images for personal use not disseminating to others, but noted children are abused in the creation of such material, a court hears.

AAP

Former NSW cop jailed for child abuse pics

A former police sergeant showed no contrition or remorse after he accessed thousands of images depicting child abuse, the judge who sent him to prison said.

The Independent UK

Project helping women in prison stay in contact with children gets funding boost

Women inmates from Wales have to serve out their sentences in England.

AAP

Vic women's jails purged of private health

Victoria will stop outsourcing health care across the state's women's prisons to a for-profit provider, conceding it hasn't always been up to scratch.

WEKU

NPR uncovered secret execution tapes from Virginia. More remain hidden

Four tapes mysteriously donated to a library reveal uncertainty behind the scenes of the death chamber — and indicate the prison neglected to record evidence during an execution gone wrong.

ABC News

Public health bodies to take over care in Victorian women's prisons

The state government will end outsourcing of health care for female prisoners to a for-profit company, admitting the current arrangement "hasn't always" fulfilled duty of care.

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