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Organs in exchange for freedom? Bill raises ethical concerns

A proposal to let prisoners in Massachusetts donate organs and bone marrow to shave time off their sentence is raising profound ethical and legal questions about putting undue pressure on people behind bars who are desperate for freedom

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2 Indiana men could face life in prison in teen's 1975 death

A judge says two Indiana men could face life in prison if they’re convicted in the slaying of a 17-year-old girl found dead in a river nearly a half-century ago

The Independent UK

California proposal would reinstate prisoners' voting rights

California could reinstate voting rights to felons while they are in prison in a major expansion of suffrage for incarcerated people if a bill currently before the state legislature passes despite an uphill battle

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Man who fatally shot 3 Texas teens in 1998 faces execution

An inmate convicted of killing three teenagers while they slept in a Texas Panhandle home more than 25 years ago is facing execution amid allegations that his trial was marred by racial bias

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Poland summons Belarusian envoy after journalist is jailed

Poland summoned the Belarusian charge d'affaires on Wednesday, a foreign ministry spokesman said, after a journalist of Polish origin was sentenced to eight years in prison in what Warsaw says was a politically motivated verdict.

Reuters

Iraq jails YouTuber, TikToker over 'indecent' videos

A court in Baghdad has sentenced two Iraqis to prison time over "indecent" videos on social media that "undermine modesty and public morality", the judiciary said Wednesday.

Bangkok Post

Sports bettor Billy Walters to break silence on ‘long and complicated relationship’ with Phil Mickelson in book this summer

Walters went to prison in 2017 for insider trading but his sentence was commuted by President Trump in 2021.

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'Gary Glitter has moved in next door... I'm fuming, I've told the kids what to say'

Gary Glitter has been released from prison after serving half of his 16-year sentence having been found guilty of sexually abusing three young girls between 1975 and 1980

Daily Mirror

Evil wife killer Brian Kearney won't get out of jail for several years as he engages with parole board

He never admitted or apologised for her death after he was found guilty in 2008

Irish Mirror

Man on the run from prison wanted by police

The Huyton man has not returned to HMP Kirkham

Liverpool Echo

New calls for inquiry to give Cammell Laird 37 'justice they deserve'

Ian Byrne said a public inquiry would "give the victims the justice they deserve" which is "still being denied almost 40 years later"

Liverpool Echo

GMB's Susanna Reid intervenes as guest 'incites violence' in heated row about Met rapist

Serial rapist and former police officer David Carrick has been given 36 life sentences and will serve more than 30 years in prison, for crimes spanning almost two decades

Daily Mirror

NT coroner highlights alarming suicide statistics at inquest into death of Aboriginal man Bernard Hector at Darwin prison

The NT coroner gives sobering insight into the rates of suicide in the Northern Territory, telling an inquest into the death of Indigenous man Bernard Hector that the territory is in a "crisis".

ABC News

Pervert's 'nonce hunter' fears came true when he went to meet '14-year-old' at Newcastle hotel and was arrested

Brett Lambert is a 'risk-taking sexual thrill seeker' who went to meet the boy in Newcastle city centre despite rightly fearing it was a trap

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Convicted killer poses for selfie behind bars in Dublin prison as probe looks into how he got phone

Exclusive: Sources confirmed that Dean Kerrie was issued with a P19 sanction for possession of the phone - after this photo appeared on social media featuring him and a number of other prisoners posing for a selfie inside a cell in Dublin’s Wheatfield Prison.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Sister: Health of French-Irish Citizen in Iran Failing

The health of Bernard Phelan, a French-Irish prisoner in Iran who last month suspended a dry hunger strike, is deteriorating, his sister told AFP on Tuesday. Phelan, a Paris-based travel consultant, was arrested in October while travelling and is being held in Mashhad in northeastern Iran. His eyesight has started…

AAP

Court told terrorist detention order 'likely negligent'

Lawyers for convicted terrorist Abdul Nacer Benbrika are arguing his continued detention after completing his prison sentence is a "deprivation of liberty".

Tribune News Service

Missouri executes Leonard Taylor, convicted of 2004 murders, despite innocence claim

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Leonard “Raheem” Taylor, who was convicted in a 2004 quadruple murder but maintained his innocence, died by lethal injection Tuesday night at a prison in eastern Missouri.

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NASCAR star Kyle Busch remains free despite three year jail sentence for gun charge

A Mexican judge slapped Busch with a prison sentence after he was found with a gun at Cancun Airport last month, but the NASCAR racer is back in the US and "considers the issue closed"

Tribune News Service

Missouri prisoner Leonard Taylor appeals to the Supreme Court, seeking to halt his execution

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Attorneys for Missouri prisoner Leonard “Raheem” Taylor, who is scheduled to be executed Tuesday amid mounting calls for his innocence claims to be vetted, have appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Edinburgh Live

Edinburgh prison staff 'sacked for attacking inmate in his cell'

The incident is understood to have occurred at HMP Edinburgh, Saughton, after the trio battered the 24-year-old prison in his cell in early September 22. Police Scotland have now launched a probe into the attack

Liverpool Echo

Prisoner on the run after escape from jail could be in Merseyside

Oliver Dale has links to Liverpool and Wirral

Daily Record

Prison staff 'sacked from HMP Edinburgh for attacking inmate in cell'

Three physical training instructors at the Saughton nick are understood to have been axed last week.

The Independent UK

Twenty members of ISIS escape Syria’s ‘Black Prison’ after earthquake devastates area

Some twenty former members of ISIS have escaped a prison located in Rajo in northeastern Syria after powerful earthquakes devastated the region and neighbouring Turkey

Wales Online

Why life sentences don't mean life in prison as David Carrick gets 36 of them in one

The 48-year-old was accused of 85 offences in total, including more than 20 rapes against 12 victims between 2003 and 2020

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