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Michael Avenatti gets 14 years in prison for stealing millions of dollars from clients

LOS ANGELES — Michael Avenatti, the once-swaggering celebrity lawyer who was undone by his proclivity for embezzlement and fraud, was sentenced Monday to 14 years in prison for dodging taxes and stealing millions of dollars from clients.

Los Angeles Times

Avenatti sentenced to 14 years in California fraud case

Incarcerated lawyer Michael Avenatti has been sentenced in Southern California to 14 years in federal prison for cheating his clients out of millions of dollars

The Independent UK

Colombia president's move to label protesters 'peace managers' sparks controversy

Opponents of Colombia President Gustavo Petro on Monday insisted that people jailed for participating in anti-government protests in 2021 were in prison for breaking the law, not demonstrating, after Petro announced plans to name dozens of youths as peace managers, paving the way for their release.

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Ex-town official gets 15 days for role in Jan. 6 riot

A former Massachusetts town official seen on surveillance video marching through the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has been sentenced to 15 days in prison for her role in the riot

The Independent UK

Michael Avenatti facing more prison time for stealing millions of dollars from clients

LOS ANGELES — Michael Avenatti, the once swaggering celebrity lawyer who was undone by his proclivity for embezzlement and fraud, faces a potentially long prison term when he is sentenced Monday for dodging taxes and stealing millions of dollars from clients.

Los Angeles Times

Georgian opposition says ex-president possibly poisoned

The main opposition party in Georgia has filed a court case calling for the imprisoned ex-president of the country to be released for medical examination overseas because of concerns he is suffering from poisoning

The Independent UK

Curtis Warren's plot to flood island with drugs landed him in prison

The former drugs baron was released in November

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Greater Manchester's prisoners could serve jail terms in region's police stations

GMP confirmed it has 'agreed to support' national proposals to help prison overcrowding

Manchester Evening News

‘I feel like a target’: Welsh woman braces for her stalker’s possible release

Exclusive: Rhianon Bragg says she feels vulnerable in her isolated home as her ex-partner could be freed from prison

The Guardian - UK

Sydney's 'milk crate murderer' Mert Ney rushed to hospital after stabbing at Goulburn's Supermax jail

Mert Ney, 24 — who is known as Sydney's milk crate murderer — has allegedly been stabbed by another inmate in Goulburn's Supermax prison.

ABC News

Jailed Sudan Ex-President Bashir Transferred to Hospital

Former Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has been moved from prison to hospital to complete some medical treatment, his lawyer Hashim Abu-Bakr said on Sunday. The 78-year-old has been in custody while he is being tried over the 1989 coup that brought him to power. He was ousted in an uprising…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Porsche driver Richard Pusey jailed for offensive photos

Porsche driver Richard Pusey will be free from prison in days after being jailed for sending graphic photos of dying police officers to the financial

The New Daily

Holiday gifts for the incarcerated, a small gesture with a big impact: ‘They need to know people care about them’

Congregants of the evangelical Willow Creek Community Church assembled just over 1,000 gift bags for inmates Sunday in the South Loop.

Chicago Sun-Times

Jailed Sudan ex-president Bashir transferred to hospital- lawyer

Former Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir has been moved from prison to hospital to complete some medical treatment, his lawyer Hashim Abu-Bakr said on Sunday.

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Northern Territory prisons facing 'unprecedented pressures' and record inmate numbers

Northern Territory inmates are sleeping on the floor on "uncomfortable" mattresses as prison numbers reach record highs and authorities struggle to come up with solutions.

Los Angeles Times

Brittney Griner facing 'terrible' life at remote penal colony in Russia

The inmates at IK-2 penal colony rise at 6 a.m. each day for a breakfast of milk porridge, bread and tea. Soon they leave their barracks at this aging facility about 300 miles southeast of Moscow, in the isolated republic of Mordovia.

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Inside Tasmania's troubled Ashley Youth Detention Centre, where kids say they get no help

A "gladiator pit", a "war zone", a "kindergarten for the adult prison" — these are just some of the ways Tasmania's only youth detention centre has been described. This is what it's like inside.

Manchester Evening News

How Curtis 'Cocky' Warren tried to flood a sleepy island with £1m of drugs

Warren - once dubbed 'Britain's Pablo Escobar' - has been freed from jail after serving a 14 year sentence for the failed plot to smuggle 180kg of cannabis into Jersey

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The Guardian - UK

Operation Safeguard will put prisoners in danger

Letters: Tory plans to use police cells to tackle prison overcrowding will make a crisis even worse, according to Deborah Coles, Joe Sim, Steve Tombs and Martha Spurrier

Chronicle Live

Birtley lout attacked police officer just TWO HOURS after prison release

Andrew MacPhail had just got out of HMP Durham when he kicked a constable after being arrested for being drunk and disorderly

Daily Mirror

Dani Dyer meets up with ex Sammy Kimmence as he spends day with son after prison release

Dani Dyer met up with her ex Sammy Kimmence, who was visiting the couple's son Santiago after being released from prison following his sentencing for fraud

The Guardian - AU

Wrongfully jailed man sues Queensland for $2.1m, alleging police officer acted with malice

Exclusive: During 220 days in prison, Eamonn Coughlan says he was bashed, stabbed with a syringe and denied prescription drugs

The Independent UK

Inspector warns of reoffending risk as prisoners locked in cells 23 hours a day

HM Chief Inspector of Prisons said the system was taking an ‘inordinately long time’ to recover from Covid.

The Guardian - US

I have no problem hiring ex-offenders. But they’re being let down

I don’t care if a candidate for my company’s open position has a criminal record. But I do care about something more important

Irish Mirror

Christmas nativity plays and carol singing back in Irish prisons after Covid-19 hiatus

'It’s great, it occupies inmates, especially in the run-up to Christmas when emotions can run high being away from loved ones'

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