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Mayor Lori Lightfoot removes city hiring barriers for ex-offenders

Lowering city hiring requirements to enable more formerly incarcerated people to find jobs could help slash crime. The mayor calls on the business community to follow suit.

Chicago Sun-Times

California lawmakers denied an anti-slavery bill last year but they are trying again

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers will once again introduce legislation that could ban imposing forced labor on inmates. This effort to amend state’s Constitution was rejected last year when lawmakers failed to pass it through the Assembly.

Tribune News Service

Report: Cap prison stints at 20 years

Shortening sentences "is integral to a wholesale reimagining of public safety," says the Sentencing Project

Salon

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Gardaí on high alert as suspect in murder of Miriam Burns in Kerry home walks free from prison

Gardai have now formally asked state legal officers for the suspect to be charged with Mrs Burns’ murder.

Irish Mirror

Edinburgh man sentenced to over 16 years in prison after serious sexual assaults

Steven Noon was sentenced to 16 years and six months imprisonment at the High Court in Livingston in connection with serious sexual assaults and assaults against a number of women.

Edinburgh Live

Taking over the Sri Lankan presidential palace was a high point for Wasantha. Then came six months of horror

This 29-year-old spearheaded a protest movement that toppled Sri Lanka's government. But after his triumphant moment, Wasantha was taken into a feared detention system where prisoners have been tortured and killed.

ABC News

Dad avoids jail after fracturing man's eye socket in concert square attack

The victim told the court the "random" attack had "ruined his life"

Liverpool Echo

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Armed raid on innocent man's home over stolen government laptop

John Kamara served 20 years in prison for a murder he did not commit and woke this week to find armed police in his home

Liverpool Echo

Paedophile found guilty of ‘mute of malice’ under centuries-old law

Jason McDonagh refused to speak to officer sent to check on him after his release from prison for molesting two girls

The Independent UK

Young dad beat up prison officer because he wanted a move

Kallum Mills felt the prison officer had been 'causing difficulties'

Wales Online

The West Should Heed this Message from a Russian Prison

Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Ilya Yashin explains why the West should avoid ascribing collective guilt to Russians. He's right on both moral and pragmatic grounds.

Reason

Natalie McGarry lawyers claim former SNP MP didn't get fair trial over 'tsunami of tweets'

Natalie McGarry received a two-year prison sentence after being found guilty of stealing £19,974 while treasurer of the group Women For Independence last July.

Daily Record

Melbourne to hit 38C and western Sydney 35C as heatwave sweeps parts of Australia

Very warm weather conditions will extend across southern areas and linger until next week, Bureau of Meteorology says

The Guardian - AU

Man who froze to death in police custody was 'put in jail's freezer as punishment'

Anthony Mitchell, 33, died inside Walker County, Alabama, US, on January 26 after he was seen in shocking CCTV footage being dragged, stripped naked and left dumped in a prison cell

Daily Mirror

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Radio France Internationale

Last chance for Belgium-Iran prisoner swap treaty that would free aid worker

Belgium's Constitutional Court on Wednesday started its final hearing on an extradition treaty with Iran that would allow the transfer of Assadollah Assadi, an Iranian diplomat who is accused of masterminding a bomb plot in Paris in 2018. But the treaty would also allow the release of Belgian aid worker…

Wales Online

Drug dealer found out his mother died while awaiting sentence on new charges

Sending 24-year-old Emanuel Ollivierre to prison, a judge asked him what he had to show from his involvement with drugs

Daily Record

Scots murderer left prisoner covered in blood after battering him with pool cue

Kirk McIntyre, who slit the throat of Frederick McGettigan in Bishopbriggs in 2017, is serving life.

Orlando Sentinel

Florida Department of Corrections overrules rejection of journalist’s memoir about her time in prison

ORLANDO, Fla. — A book that was banned from being circulated inside correctional facilities across Florida will soon be hitting the library shelves in state-run prisons.

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Rafsanjani's Family Urges Iranian Authorities to Release his Daughter

The family of the former Iranian president, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, demanded the release of his daughter, Faezeh, who was arrested by the authorities last September on charges of incitement to protest. The Jamaran website, affiliated with the office of the first Supreme Leader Khomeini, reported that the family said they…

Asharq Al-Awsat

US, Iran Hold Indirect Talks on Possible Prisoner Exchange

The Biden administration is holding indirect discussions with Iran on a possible prisoner exchange to secure the release of American citizens imprisoned in Iran, with Qatar and the United Kingdom playing an intermediary role in the talks, according to NBC news channel. It quoted four unnamed sources saying that the…

ABC News

Daniel Knuth sentenced for possessing child exploitation material for second time

Daniel Knuth, the son of a Queensland MP, will be eligible for parole in April 2023 after being sentenced to five-and-a-half-years in prison for possessing child exploitation material.

The Independent UK

California and Nevada may ban slavery, forced prison labor

California and Nevada could ban involuntary servitude as lawmakers move toward potential ballot measurers that would remove all forms of slavery from their state constitutions

The Independent UK

Alabama 'close' to finishing nitrogen execution protocol

The head of Alabama’s prison system said Wednesday that a protocol for using nitrogen gas to carry out executions should be ready this year

The Independent UK

Minnesota justices leave felon voting issue to Legislature

The Minnesota Supreme Court has upheld state laws that prohibit people with felony convictions from voting until they finish their parole, and put the burden on the Legislature to decide whether voting rights should be restored when people leave prison

Al Jazeera

Gunman in racist mass shooting in Buffalo gets life in prison

Peyton Gendron apologizes in court after admitting he ‘shot and killed people because they were Black’.

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