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George Pell flew higher than any Australian priest, but he chose career over the safety of children

The cardinal was smart and determined. His failure to uncover some of the worst cases of child sexual abuse by priests blights his reputation

The Guardian - AU

Prison worker smuggled drugs into jail and turned home into 'safehouse' for gang

Megan Woodham reportedly 'formed a relationship' with an inmate.

Daily Record

Prison health worker smuggled ketamine into jail after 'forming relationship' with inmate

Megan Woodham, 30, allowed her home in Wigan to be used as a "safehouse" for a multi-million pound drug gang

Manchester Evening News

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Yoga, jogging and etiquette courses: Ghislaine Maxwell’s new life as prisoner 02879-509

Ghislaine Maxwell has been making new friends and working in a prison library since being sent to Tallahassee minimum security prison last year. Her etiquette courses have apparently proven popular among inmates, writes Bevan Hurley

The Independent UK

The Mancunian Way: Understanding ‘Rainbow Britain’

What does the Census say about LGBT+ communities? PLUS Prisoner injured in brawl AND Bouncing back from Dragon’s Den

Manchester Evening News

Feds outline new plan for inmates to pay victim restitution

The Justice Department is proposing changes to how it runs federal prisoners’ deposit accounts in an effort to make sure victims are paid restitution, including from some high-profile inmates with large balances

The Independent UK

Woman sobs 'I love you' to her family as she's jailed for six years

Megan Woodham handed over packages of drugs to an inmate and was part of £1million cocaine gang

Liverpool Echo

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Far-right troll Baked Alaska sentenced to 60 days in prison for role in Jan 6 riots

Anthime Gionet livestreamed himself storming the Capitol and berating law enforcement officers during mob’s assault

The Independent UK

Justice secretary promises investigation after victims of Greater Manchester's worst rapist were not told he was being released

A Manchester MP quizzed a minister over the rape victims' anger

Manchester Evening News

Jail official helps Ayodhya prisoner, 98, get freedom… and a home

LUCKNOW: Incarceration in twilight years can be worse than imagined. Remember Brooks Hatlen in The Shawshank Redemption, who inscribed ‘Brooks was here' on the door of his dormitory before he hanged himself to death follwoing his release from prison.

The Times of India

Manchester murderer behind brutal killing of man with learning difficulties on the run from prison

Paul Gerrard was sentenced to life in prison after killing David Argent in 2009

Manchester Evening News

Iran Sentences Belgian Aid Worker to Prison, Lashes

Iran has sentenced a Belgian aid worker to a lengthy prison term and 74 lashes after convicting him of espionage charges in a closed-door trial, state media reported Tuesday. The website of Iran’s judiciary said a Revolutionary Court sentenced 41-year-old Olivier Vandecasteele to 12.5 years in prison for espionage, 12.5…

Asharq Al-Awsat

New bag scanners at prisons detect heroin in washing-up liquid, cannabis in curry

83 new x-ray machines will be installed at prison gates by the end of March

Evening Standard

Discord as UN renews cross-border Syria aid for further six months

The UN Security Council on Monday renewed the cross-border aid mechanism to Syria for another six months, a length of time that several member nations consider too short.

Radio France Internationale

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Liverpool Echo

Murderer behind brutal attack on man with learning difficulties on the run

Paul Gerrard was jailed over the death of David Argent

Al Jazeera

Iran sentences Belgian national to 40 years in prison, 74 lashes

Relations between Iran and Belgium have increasingly soured following the arrest of an Iranian diplomat in 2018.

Manchester Evening News

Inmate taken to hospital 'after ten-man brawl' at Forest Bank prison

Officials at the troubled privately-run prison confirmed 'an incident' took place yesterday

Irish Mirror

David Cullinane denies Sinn Féin's recent dip in polls is linked to mentions of party in Gerry Hutch trial

Former Sinn Fein councillor Jonathan Dowdall was sentenced to four years in prison last year for facilitating the murder of David Byrne in Dublin’s Regency Hotel in February 2016

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Tribune News Service

Amid labor shortage, WA aerospace plants hire untapped talent

Inside two South Seattle manufacturing plants, work is slowly building back up as the aerospace industry recovers from a disastrous downturn.

Wales Online

Lynette White killer Jeffrey Gafoor allowed out of prison on day release

Two of the men wrongly jailed for the Cardiff sex worker's murder had been given longer prison tariffs than killer Gafoor

Nottingham Post

Forklift driver for Aldi begs not to go to prison after turning life around

He has now lodged an appeal

Evening Standard

Sex offenders at Brixton Prison could be released without adequate efforts to halt offending

Watchdog’s warning raises concerns that efforts to improve female safety on the streets being undermined by prison system

Los Angeles Times

Why a 'three strikes' felon — on bail twice over — was on the streets, where he gunned down a deputy

LOS ANGELES — William Shae McKay could have been in custody Dec. 29 — in more than one case. Instead, the “three strikes” felon, already facing a life sentence, gunned down a Riverside County deputy before dying alongside a freeway in a hail of bullets.

The Independent UK

Alabama ISIS bride claims she was brainwashed as she fights to return home from Syria camp

A woman who ran away from home in Alabama at the age of 20 to join the Islamic State group in Syria says she is a victim of the militant organization and hopes to return to the US even if it means serving prison time

The Texas Tribune

Texas executes Robert Fratta after high courts reject challenges to expired lethal injection drugs

Fratta was convicted in the 1994 murder-for-hire of his wife. Lawyers unsuccessfully challenged Texas’ routine of extending the expiration dates of its lethal drugs, a practice begun when many pharmacies began refusing to provide doses for executions.

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