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UCSF apologizes for experiments done on prisoners in the '60s and '70s

The University of California, San Francisco has issued a public apology after conducting an investigation into experiments performed by two faculty members in the 1960s and '70s on prisoners, some of whom were mentally ill. In many cases, there was no record that the prisoners had provided informed consent.

Los Angeles Times

Adnan Syed hired by Georgetown's prison reform initiative

Adnan Syed, who was released from a Maryland prison this year after his case was the focus of the true-crime podcast “Serial,” has been hired by Georgetown University as a program associate for the university’s Prisons and Justice Initiative

The Independent UK

Making domestic battery an automatic felony could backfire

A night or two in jail could lead to job loss and the main source of income for affected families. Survivors may drop charges if they feel that their abuser may be sent to prison.

Chicago Sun-Times

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California university apologizes for prisoner experiments

A prominent California medical school has apologized for conducting dozens of unethical medical experiments on at least 2,600 incarcerated men in the 1960s and 1970s

The Independent UK

Brittney Griner Asks Fans to Write Letters to Paul Whelan

The WNBA star urged fans to join her in sending letters to the former Marine who remains behind bars in a Russian prison.

Sports Illustrated

Adnan Syed hired by Georgetown University for its prison reform organization

BALTIMORE — Adnan Syed is now a Georgetown University employee, the private university in Washington, D.C., announced.

Tribune News Service

Pervert headteacher out of prison just weeks before he struck again

Sex offender was out of prison for a matter of weeks before he 'went back to his old ways'

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Britain's most evil offenders who will spend the rest of their lives behind bars

Damien Bendall who brutally murdered his girlfriend and three children last year has recently joined the list of the UK's most twisted criminals who have been sentenced to a whole-life order in prison.

Daily Record

Boris Becker reunited with 87-year-old mum after deportation following prison stint

Fallen tennis star Boris Becker was released from prison and deported back to Germany this week, after serving just eight months of his two and a half year sentence

Daily Mirror

Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp lifts lid on "risk" of visiting Boris Becker in prison

Boris Becker recently left prison after serving eight months of a two-and-a-half-year sentence, and Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp was deemed too big a security risk to visit the tennis icon

Daily Mirror

Head of 'family from hell' who tortured and murdered daughter-in-law dies in prison

Rachel, a young mum, was tortured, insulted and humiliated by the family members after she moved in with them in Stockhill, Nottingham, in November 2002.

Nottingham Post

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is about to make his first US court appearance as he faces decades in prison

Bankman-Fried's closest business associates had also been charged and had secretly pleaded guilty.

Fortune

The number of Irish prisoners getting temporary release for Christmas is set to double - with 129 getting out for "a few hours" or "up to seven nights"

The Prison Service said: “The overriding concern when considering the applications is the safety of the public"

Irish Mirror

Twisted murderers and rapists who will die in jail as 'sleepover killer' given full life sentence

Evil killer Damien Bendall joins more than 60 other callous criminals serving whole-life sentences behind bars

Daily Mirror

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Leeds Live

Man accused of murdering rugby league star Danny Kirmond's brother dies in Leeds prison

He died on his birthday

Bangkok Post

'Serpent' Sobhraj to be freed on Friday

KATHMANDU: French serial killer Charles Sobhraj, whose string of murders across Asia in the 1970s was portrayed in the Netflix series “The Serpent”, was still awaiting his release from prison Thursday after a Nepali court ordered him freed on health grounds.

Glasgow Live

Glasgow man who offered to 'help' vulnerable student commit suicide jailed

Craig McInally has been sentenced to a minimum of two years in prison for deliberately targeting people who were vulnerable and offering to 'assist' in the suicide of a 25-year-old woman.

Liverpool Echo

Man climbed the Shard before telling police 'I'll come down after taking a selfie'

Adam Lockwood told his YouTube channel: "I'm probably going to prison tomorrow but when I get out my videos will probably get crazier."

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The Independent UK

Lawyers seek release of suspect in EU corruption scandal

Lawyers for the former European Parliament vice-president suspected of being at the center of one of the European Union’s biggest corruption scandals are seeking her release from prison

The Independent UK

Two associates of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried reach plea deals over crypto scandal

Pair faced hefty prison sentences for role in collapse of cryptocurrency exchange

Irish Mirror

Man who battered victim outside Donegal hotel must pay €7,500 to stay out of prison

Gary McMenamin admitted a savage attack on David Porter outside the Allingham Arms Hotel in Bundoran.

Radio France Internationale

Nepal to release French serial killer dubbed the ‘Serpent'

A Frenchman whose life of seduction, murder and escape on the "hippie trail" during the 1970s became the subject for a hit TV series was due to be freed on Thursday after 19 years in prison in Nepal.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Iran's Supreme Court Orders Retrial of Protester on Death Row

The Iranian Supreme Court ordered a retrial of a protester sentenced to death in early November, according to the judiciary's website, Mizan Online. According to Agence France-Presse, Mahan Sedarat was among 11 people sentenced to death for events related to the protests that have been rocking the country for three…

Daily Record

Scots prison bosses told to make more use of open prison or shut it down

Watchdogs say Castle Huntly needs to be better used - or its style of rehabilitation spread to other prisons.

Reuters

'The Serpent' Charles Sobhraj to be freed from Nepal prison on Friday

Charles Sobhraj, a convicted killer who police suspect was responsible for a string of murders in the 1970s and 1980s, will be freed from prison in Nepal on Friday after nearly 20 years behind bars, a jail official told Reuters on Thursday.

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