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Lamar Johnson calls on Missouri lawmakers to start compensation program for exonerees

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Six days after a judge declared him a free man, Lamar Johnson told members of a Senate panel Monday that the state must compensate people who have been freed from prison for crimes they didn’t commit.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Parole review: Without suffering moral panic, this documentary is a robust defence of a much-maligned system

In the first of five episodes of the excellent new BBC Two series, we meet two of the prisoners looking to go straight, and quite the characters they are, too

The Independent UK

ITV Coronation Street fans plead 'no' as Max Turner is left bloody after beating

Max has become the target of bullies in prison

Liverpool Echo

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Vile Seaham abuser jailed again for attacking same woman twice

Adam Fox, 29, has been sentenced to six years in prison for attacking his victim in a hotel last year

Chronicle Live

New Mexico prosecutors downgrade manslaughter charge against Alec Baldwin in ‘Rust’ shooting

New Mexico prosecutors have downgraded felony penalties against Alec Baldwin and the armorer in the fatal “Rust” shooting, removing the threat that either could spend years in prison.

Los Angeles Times

New Mexico prosecutors downgrade charges against Alec Baldwin in the 'Rust' shooting

The actor's lawyers argued that he had been charged under a previous version of a New Mexico firearm law. The change would reduce his prison time if convicted in the shooting death of Halyna Hutchins.

WEKU

Deaths in prisons skyrocketed during pandemic, analysis finds

Covid spread quickly in crowded US jails

The Independent UK

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Tortured to death in a cold blooded killing fuelled by jealousy and revenge...how Thomas Campbell was betrayed by a woman who claimed to love him

In court, Coleen Campbell played the perfect grieving widow

Manchester Evening News

Mother calls judge ‘garbage’ as she is sentenced for shooting six-year-old son dead

“I’m innocent. F*** you all. You’re garbage. That is all, your honour,” Julissa Thaler said at the sentencing

The Independent UK

New Mexico prosecutors downgrade felony charges against Alec Baldwin in ‘Rust’ shooting

New Mexico prosecutors have downgraded felony charges against Alec Baldwin and the armorer in the fatal “Rust” shooting, removing the threat that either could spend years in prison.

Los Angeles Times

EU Hits Two Iran Ministers in New Sanctions over Crackdown

The European Union imposed asset freezes and visa bans on Iran's education and culture ministers on Monday, in a fifth round of sanctions against Tehran over its crackdown on demonstrators. The new measures targeted 32 individuals and two entities, and were largely aimed at lawmakers, judiciary officials and prison authorities…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Faces of the men who fought 'running battles' in cemetery armed with bats, knives, hammers, and shovels

Nine men have been sentenced for their parts in a violent disturbance between warring factions of an extended family

Wales Online

Rapist jailed over series of sexual offences in Scots town

At the High Court in Glasgow on Monday, Martin Gavin was sentenced to five years and seven months in prison.

Daily Record

El Salvador crackdown breaks the gangs – at huge cost to human rights

War on gangs by populist leader Nayib Bukele has produced extraordinary change, but ‘the cure could be as harmful as the disease’

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Bangkok Post

Suspected cop killer shot dead at Korat resort

NAKHON RATCHASIMA: A man suspected of shooting dead a motorcycle policeman in Pak Chong district two weeks ago was killed in a shootout with police at a resort in Kham Thaleso disitrict in the small hours on Monday, Provincial Police Region 3 commissioner Pol Lt Gen Somprasong Yenthuam said.

Miami Herald

Commentary: As Cubans flee, US travel operators peddle a tone-deaf, pastel view of an island paradise

MIAMI — I believe in Americans’ right to travel anywhere in the globe we wish.

Daily Record

Trans killer locked up with women for six years in Scots prison fears she would not survive men's jail

Sophie Eastwood, formerly known as Daniel, has beenheld among female prisoners in Cornton Vale since 2017 but fears being moved.

AAP

Mokbel asks for move from 'harsh' prison conditions

Drug kingpin Tony Mokbel wants to be transferred to another prison as his recovery from a violent attack has been impeded due to his isolation, his lawyer says.

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Chicago Sun-Times

Longtime activist celebrates 90th birthday

Family and friends celebrated Mary L. Johnson, who has spent much of her life trying to free people falsely accused of crimes they did not commit brought about by false confessions through torture by the Chicago Police Department.

Daily Mirror

Boris Becker's estranged wife says prison didn't make the "devil" a better person

Dutch model Sharlely Kerssenberg, 46, who is in the process of divorcing the tennis legend, claims he stopped paying child support for their son Amadeus

Daily Mirror

Boris Becker branded "devil" after jail term in scathing attack by estranged ex-wife

Boris Becker was released from prison in December after serving just eight months of his two-and-a-half-year sentence, and was immediately deported from the UK

The Independent UK

Texas death row inmate who cut out his eyes seeks clemency citing ‘psychosis’

Attorneys for a mentally ill Texas death row prisoner, along with faith leaders and mental health professionals are working to stop his 5 April execution, saying he'll never be sufficiently competent to be put to death

Irish Mirror

Helicopter toys that sell for €15 being used to fly drugs into Irish prisons

Staff at Wheatfield Prison in Dublin removed one of the mini choppers from netting

Daily Mirror

Kaz Crossley seen for the first time since drug arrest as she returns to work

Love Island star Kaz Crossley beamed as she posed with the group in a black sports bra and leggings following the Muay Thai session – which she’s previously described as being her 'therapy'

Irish Mirror

Irish woman who survived stalker's chilling campaign of terror 'terrified' about prison release

He was arrested on July 27, 2020, after turning up at her home with duct tape, rope, a crowbar and a prosthetic penis strapped to him. In 2021 he was jailed for seven years, with two suspended, after pleading guilty to harassment, attempted burglary with intent to rape and a…

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