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Who’s accused of what: Jan 6 panel makes criminal referrals

The former president has been referred under four criminal statutes including defrauding the US and inciting an insurrection

The Independent UK

Even if Jan. 6 referrals turn into criminal charges – or convictions – Trump will still be able to run in 2024 and serve as president if elected

The criminal referral of Donald Trump to the Department of Justice by a House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack is largely symbolic – the panel itself has no power to prosecute any individual.

The Conversation

'Jekyll and Hyde' thug bit, suffocated and pointed 'gun' at girlfriend in string of frenzied rages

Jason Dyer subjected his girlfriend to a string of attacks

Manchester Evening News

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Iranian artist Elham Modaresi being 'tortured' in prison and denied medical care, says sister

In a prison West of Tehran, Iranian artist Elham Modaresi's will to survive is being gradually broken. Her sister says Elham is facing torture and being denied medical care.

ABC News

Rikers Island Sees 19th Death This Year After Judge Gives Leaders More Time To Fix Its Messes

Somehow deaths have climbed even though the prison population has dropped.

Reason

Kettering murder accused seen for first time since mum and two young kids killed in home

Saju Chelavalel, 52, was pictured as he was led to a prison van after appearing at Wellingborough Magistrates' Court on Monday charged with the murders of his wife and two children

Daily Mirror

R. Kelly manager gets a year in prison for theater threat

R. Kelly’s onetime manager has been sentenced to a year in federal prison for calling in a shooting threat that halted a screening of a damning documentary about the R&B star

The Independent UK

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Report shows rise in deaths in custody

The Australian Institute of Criminology has released new data showing 106 people died in custody in 2021/22, 23 more than last year.

AAP

Mutulu Shakur, planner of 1981 Brink’s robbery and Tupac Shakur’s stepfather, paroled from prison for health reasons

NEW YORK — A radical group leader who planned the 1981 Brink’s robbery that left two Nyack, New York, police officers and an armored car guard dead has been released from prison after 37 years, according to a report.

Tribune News Service

SC county settles ACLU lawsuit over ‘debtor’s prison,’ promises improved public defense

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Lexington County, South Carolina, has reached a settlement in a lawsuit brought by several people who had been jailed in the county for a failure to pay court fines and fees, who compared their situation to a modern-day “debtor’s prison.”

Tribune News Service

HMP Bristol prisoner 'heard shivering on the phone' as heating fails

"It’s to the point that when they’re on the phone, I can hear them shivering. It's inhumane."

Bristol Post

Indigenous deaths in custody rises to 516 since the 1991 royal commission, report says

The Australian Institute of Criminology’s annual report shows 106 people died in custody between July 2021 and July 2022, with 16 of those being of Indigenous descent

The Guardian - AU

Nottinghamshire prisoners dismantling surplus Covid tests and PPE for £3.50 a day

Some tests are reportedly still in date

Nottingham Post

Report: Iran’s Government Accesses Social Media Accounts of Detainees

As protests spread in Iran, some worry the government is using technology to access mobile applications to surveil and suppress dissent, CNN reported. “They told me ‘Do you think you can get out of here alive? We will execute you. Your sentence is death penalty. We have evidence, we are…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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The Guardian - US

An elderly woman in prison is losing her memory. Why won’t California release her?

The parole board’s refusal to free Janet Carter, 69, is part of what advocates warn is a growing humanitarian crisis across the US

Manchester Evening News

Police appeal for help as they hunt man, 33, wanted on recall to prison

Jonathan Cole is being hunted by officers

Daily Record

Dangerous inmate admits stabbing two guards at Shotts Prison

Darren Cornelius was given an extra 16 months in jail because of the incident.

Daily Mirror

Rugby boss Bernard Laporte refuses to step down despite corruption conviction

French Rugby Federation President Bernard Laporte was given a two-year suspended prison sentence and fined £64,300 last week after being convicted of corruption charges

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The Independent UK

Disgraced crypto boss Sam Bankman-Fried to walk back decision to fight extradition, report says

Bankman-Fried potentially faces prison sentence of over 100 years

Asharq Al-Awsat

Women Lack Basics in Lebanon's Crowded Prisons

Nour is raising her four-month-old daughter in Lebanon's most overpopulated women's prison, struggling to get formula and nappies for her baby as the country's economy lies in tatters. "I don't have enough milk to breastfeed, and baby formula isn't readily available," said the 25-year-old, who was detained eight months ago…

The Independent UK

Man to be sentenced in murders of 8 from another Ohio family

A man convicted in the killings of eight people from another southern Ohio family faces the possibility of life in prison without parole when he’s sentenced

Reuters

Pussy Riot members detained at World Cup final, activists say

Members of Russia's Pussy Riot band were detained on Sunday after trying to storm the pitch at the World Cup final in Qatar to protest the war in Ukraine, the imprisonment of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and the oppression of women in Iran, activists said.

The Independent UK

Ex-Mafia boss 'Cadillac Frank' Salemme dies in prison at 89

Former New England Mafia boss Francis “Cadillac Frank” Salemme has died in federal custody at the age of 89

Asharq Al-Awsat

Brussels Urges Belgians to Quit Iran over Arrest Risk

Belgium's government called Sunday for Belgians in Iran to leave the country, mired in a violent crackdown on nationwide protests, because of the risk of arbitrary arrest and imprisonment. "All Belgian visitors, including (dual) nationals, are at high risk of arrest, arbitrary detention and unfair trial.

Daily Record

Prison officer jailed after starting relationship with inmate and sending 'explicit' images

Jennifer Gavan, 27, wept as she was jailed for eight months after pleading guilty to misconduct in public office.

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