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Ex-Bolivia official receives stiff jail sentence for bribes

A former Bolivian interior minister has been sentenced in the United States to nearly six years in prison for taking at least $532,000 in bribes to help a Florida company win a lucrative contract to sell tear gas to his country's government

The Independent UK

Iran Releases Oscar-Winning Film Actress Held over Protests

Iran released a prominent actress from an Oscar-winning film on Wednesday, nearly three weeks after she was jailed for criticizing a crackdown on anti-government protests, local reports said. Iran’s semi-official ISNA news agency said Taraneh Alidoosti, the 38-year-old star of Asghar Farhadi’s Oscar-winning “The Salesman,” was released on bail. Her…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Taraneh Alidoosti: Iran releases film star from prison on bail – 18 days after arrest

The actor’s arrest for supporting anti-government protests prompted shock across the country

The Independent UK

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In troubled Mexico prison, inmates ruled their cell blocks

The violent prison break that killed 17 people _ mostly guards _ and resulted in the escape of 30 inmates has revealed a shocking level of self-rule by prisoners inside the troubled prison in the northern Mexico border city of Ciudad Juarez

The Independent UK

First transgender inmate Amber McLaughlin executed in the US

The Missouri prisoner was put to death for a 2003 killing

Irish Mirror

Mum stuck in Iran jail for 13 years shares letter from inside 'hell-like' prison

As she enters her 14th year in jail in Iran, Maryam Akbari Monfared has shared a letter while also celebrating the protests that have spread throughout Iran while she has been incarcerated

Daily Mirror

Amber McLaughlin becomes first transgender woman to be executed in US after 2003 murder conviction

The 49-year-old was on death row in a prison in Missouri for killing a former girlfriend in 2003 in St Louis

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California seeks sterilization victims to pay reparations

California officials are looking for victims of government-forced or coerced sterilization

The Independent UK

Wallsend man who helped escaped prisoner out of 'misplaced loyalty' avoids joining him behind bars

Anthony Wray, of Wallsend, was good friends with escaped robber Craig Inskip's dad before he took his own life

Chronicle Live

Murder charge after Tas escapee death

A Tasmanian man has been charged with murder after the body of an escaped prisoner was found outside a suburban Hobart home in an apparent shooting.

AAP

Man charged with murder over shooting of escaped prisoner Nicholas Scott in Granton, near Hobart

A 20-year-old man is charged with the murder of 26-year-old Nicholas Scott, who escaped prison custody at the Royal Hobart Hospital late on Monday night and was found shot dead hours later.

ABC News

Emmerdale's Robert Sugden return 'sealed' as ITV teases sentencing twist

Emmerdale favourite Robert Sugden was last seen on our screens in 2019 when he was sent to prison for killing his sister Victoria's rapist, Lee Posner.

Leeds Live

Colorado funeral home owners sentenced to prison for selling body parts without families’ permission

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — Megan Hess and Shirley Koch slowly put out their arms, the soft clink of metal handcuffs audible in the federal courtroom as U.S. marshals took the mother and daughter into custody.

The Denver Post

50 years in prison apiece for 2 gang members who fatally shot mom shopping with her sons

“It’s not stupidity. ... It’s a function of not caring about anything except channeling their gang animus toward some other gang member,” Judge Timothy Joyce said in handing down the sentences Tuesday.

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The Independent UK

Inmates allege Texas to use unsafe drugs for executions

Three Texas death row inmates allege that the state’s prison system plans to use expired and unsafe drugs to carry out their executions early this year

Liverpool Echo

Liverpool's last executions and the horrific crimes behind them

One of the last executions in the history of the UK took place at Walton Prison

WEKU

Mastermind of the Varsity Blues college admission scandal is about to learn his fate

Rick Singer pleaded guilty in 2019 to selling what he called "a side door" into top universities. The scheme snared dozens of wealthy clients, from actors to business titans and big-shot lawyers.

Reuters

Head of Mexican jailbreak prison fired, deadly manhunt gathers pace

Mexican authorities on Tuesday said they had fired the director of a prison near the U.S. border where at least 30 inmates escaped at the weekend after a deadly riot, as police began a manhunt for missing convicts.

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Evening Standard

Seven killed as hunt for Mexican cartel jail escapees turns deadly

At least seven people have been killed in a shootout after a Mexican cartel broke their leader out of prison.

Liverpool Echo

Woman's desperate bid to keep 'Coronation Street rapist' behind bars

Andrew Barlow is due to be released this month despite getting 13 life sentences for his heinous crime

ABC News

Prison service launches investigation into Nicholas Scott hospital escape before shooting death

An inmate who fled a prison escort at hospital made his way to Hobart's nightclub strip and borrowed a member of the public's phone before he was later shot dead, police say.

Daily Mirror

Boris Becker to make commentary return at Australian Open following release from prison

The six-time Grand Slam winner was deported to native Germany after serving just eight months of his two-and-a-half year prison term after being found guilty of four charges under the Insolvency Act

Newsroom.co.nz

The Peter Ellis Podcast: Prison

Episode 6 of the Newsroom series Peter Ellis, the creche case and me looks into the repeated attempts to free Ellis from prison.

The Independent UK

Fake teen doctor is sent back to prison for stealing $10k from employer in Florida

A serial grifter who gained national infamy as a teenager when he impersonated a doctor to defraud a patient is heading back to prison after pleading guilty to stealing more than $10,000 from his employer

The Independent UK

Fake teen doctor, now 25, sentenced to prison for new scam

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