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Scots killer William MacDowell who escaped justice for murder for 45 years has died in prison

William MacDowell, 81, was given a life sentence last year after being found guilty of the murders of Renee and Andrew MacRae in November 1976.

Daily Record

Report: Saudi Binladin Group fined over 2015 crane collapse

A criminal court has imposed a $5.3 million fine on the Saudi BinLadin Group and sentenced seven people to prison over the collapse of a crane ahead of the 2015 hajj pilgrimage

The Independent UK

Buffalo mass shooter sentenced to life in state prison after "racially motivated" massacre

Peyton Gendron pleaded guilty to state charges in November, including one count of domestic terrorism motivated by hate.

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Prisoners donating organs to get time off raises thorny ethical questions

In January 2023 two Democratic representatives, Judith Garcia and Carlos Gonzalez, proposed a bill that would offer prisoners in Massachusetts a new way to win reduction in their sentences: by donating their bone marrow or vital organs.

The Conversation

El Salvador vows gang crackdown will go on as citizens cheer safer streets

El Salvador's state of emergency to combat gangs, which has widespread public support despite a growing prison population and allegations of human rights abuses, will be maintained until all criminals are captured, the country's security minister told Reuters.

Reuters

Driver rammed into unmarked police car during chase

The driver was wanted on a recall to prison

Liverpool Echo

Atlanta comic, actor Clayton English digs into history and fallacies of ‘The War on Drugs’ in new podcast

ATLANTA — The phrase “war on drugs” was invented by Richard Nixon in 1971 and has retained its power for five decades. But if this is a war, is there an actual winner or just a whole lot of losers?

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Biden nominee was praised for helping free Kevin Strickland. It’s now being used against her

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kate Brubacher’s work to free Kevin Strickland from prison, overturning the longest known wrongful conviction in Missouri history, won her praise in Kansas City. But that work may be slowing down her confirmation to become the U.S. attorney for the District of Kansas.

Tribune News Service

Egypt's model prison rife with abuses, inmates' families and activists say

A new prison which Egypt touted as a model for reform and which holds some of its most prominent prisoners denies inmates healthcare and subjects them to punitive treatment including isolation, relatives of those inside and rights groups say.

Reuters

'Imagining Freedom' will give $125 million to art projects focused on incarceration

Since 2020, the Mellon Foundation has given over $40 million to arts and humanities projects addressing mass incarceration. In all, it says, it will donate $125 million to such efforts.

WEKU

Ex-prisoner who had swastika tattooed on wrist aged 16 feels ‘reborn’ after its removal

Ilario Guiducci, 62, said he was ‘completely naive’ when he got the tattoo as a cadet in the Italian army

Wales Online

Commentary: How blasphemy laws are used to serve political ends

On Jan. 17, Pakistan’s National Assembly unanimously voted to expand the country’s laws on blasphemy, which already carried the death penalty for insulting the prophet Muhammad. Now anyone in Pakistan deemed to have insulted the prophet’s companions, which could include thousands of early Muslims, can face life imprisonment.

Los Angeles Times

Man freed after 28 YEARS for murder he always denied as 'evidence of innocence' found

Lamar Johnson was freed from jai after serving 28 years of a life sentence for a killing he didn't commit, after a Missouri judge overturned his conviction

Daily Mirror

Buffalo supermarket gunman set to receive life prison term

A white supremacist is set to be sentenced to life in prison for killing 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket

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Man freed after nearly three decades in prison as murder conviction overturned

A Missouri judge has overturned the conviction of a 50-year-old man who has served nearly 28 years of a life prison sentence for a killing that he says he didn’t commit

ABC News

Cooma 'gay prison' podcasters call for government apology for entrapment, persecution of homosexual men

They uncovered a shameful secret in the history of persecution of homosexuality in Australia, now the producers of The Greatest Menace podcast are pressing for a formal apology from the NSW government.

Liverpool Echo

Mum feared she was going to die during former prison officer's sex attack

The mum has spoken to The ECHO in the hope of encouraging other victims of sexual assault to report crimes to police

Daily Mirror

UK's longest-serving female prisoner who killed love rival may be released after 35 years

Maria Pearson, now 66, stabbed her ex-partner's new girlfriend Janet Newton to death in a Hartlepool street in 1986 and reportedly could soon be released after 35 years in jail

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One of the deadliest federal prison units is closing

The Bureau of Prisons is shutting down a unit at its newest penitentiary in Illinois, following an investigation by NPR and The Marshall Project that exposed it was rife with violence and abuse.

Tribune News Service

Judge throws out Missouri man’s conviction, confirming his innocence in 1994 murder

Long before he had a graying beard, Lamar Johnson wrote to the St. Louis judge who oversaw his 1995 trial, saying he had received letters from another man admitting guilt to the murder for which he had just been convicted.

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Report: Tech CEO who played in upscale golf events while employees went unpaid raided by FBI, charged with fraud

If he's found guilty of the charges, he could face up to 20 years in prison.

Fortune

California’s housing shortage is so bad a university is considering a floating barge as a dorm. Students call it ‘prison boat.’

“There are simply not enough housing options available either on campus or in the community,” a spokesperson for Cal Poly Humboldt confirmed to Fortune.

The Independent UK

Judge vacates conviction of man imprisoned nearly 3 decades

A Missouri judge has overturned the conviction of a 50-year-old man who has served nearly 28 years of a life prison sentence for a killing that he says he didn’t commit

Fortune

‘Pharma bro’ Martin Shkreli’s quest for a shelter cat doomed by TikTok braggadocio—and a lie on his application

“My past keeps haunting me,” Shkreli told Fortune of his run-in with a Queens shelter, adding that he’s “devastated” by his rejection.

Chicago Sun-Times

Ex-Bloomingdale Township highway commissioner gets prison for kickback scheme

Robert Czernek got more than three years in prison in bill-padding scam that bilked west suburban township out of more than $500,000.

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