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Emmerdale's Cain makes secret contact with mystery character ahead of sibling's arrival

Cain Dingle makes secret contact with a mystery person on Emmerdale next week, ahead of the arrival of his long lost sibling - but who wants to get in contact with Cain?

Daily Mirror

Ex-Theranos President Balwani gets 13-year prison term in fraud case

Former Theranos Inc. President and Chief Operating Officer Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani was sentenced to 13 years in prison for defrauding investors and patients of Theranos Inc., the blood-testing startup he ran alongside its founder and chief executive officer Elizabeth Holmes.

Tribune News Service

Sporadic progress in Russia-U.S.talks on prisoner swap, diplomat says

Talks between Russia and the United States on securing an exchange of high-profile prisoners are making only sporadic progress, a top Russian diplomat said in comments published on Thursday.

Reuters

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Ex-Theranos executive Sunny Balwani sentenced to nearly 13 years in prison

Term slightly longer than one given to Elizabeth Holmes for defrauding investors in now-defunct blood testing firm

The Guardian - US

Former Theranos executive Sunny Balwani sentenced to 13 years in prison

Judge Edward Davila described Sunny Balwani and Elizabeth Holmes as ‘co-leaders’ in a scheme to defraud Theranos investors

The Independent UK

DOJ watchdog finds missteps by prison officials ahead of Whitey Bulger's killing

The Justice Department's watchdog found a string of missteps by federal Bureau of Prison officials but no malicious intent in their handling of Bulger's transfer to the prison where he was killed.

WEKU

Factbox-Peru's presidents and years of political turmoil

Peru, the world's No.2 copper producer and for years one of Latin America's fastest growing economies, has seen a series of presidents ousted from office or imprisoned on allegations of corruption over the past three decades.

Reuters

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Bureaucratic incompetence among federal prison officials led to mob boss Whitey Bulger’s beating death in 2018, IG report says

HARTFORD, Conn. — The Justice Department’s inspector general has concluded that it wasn’t “malicious intent,” but rather “bureaucratic incompetence” that was responsible for mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger’s brutal beating death when prison officials transferred him to a violent West Virginia prison and housed him with rival gangsters in 2018.

Tribune News Service

Indonesia paroles the bombmaker in Bali's deadly 2002 attacks

An Islamic militant convicted of making the explosives used in the bombings that killed over 200 people was paroled after serving about half of his original 20-year prison sentence.

WEKU

Shocking footage shows drug-fuelled man battering his van against police car

Dino Price has now been sentenced to 12 months in prison after he left officers "fearing for their lives" and caused over £40,000 worth in damage.

Daily Record

US Justice Department finds ‘incompetence’ in Whitey Bulger death

A report issued Wednesday recommends disciplinary action for prison workers in connection to the famed mobster’s murder.

Al Jazeera

Bombmaker behind 2002 Bali bombings released from prison after serving half of 20-year sentence

Indonesian authorities say he has been successfully reformed in prison

Evening Standard

To resolve youth violence, Canada must move beyond policing and prison

The most recent shooting involving a Toronto high school student this October highlighted a rising problem with gun violence in North American schools. In Canada’s largest city, it raised alarms about how the crisis is getting worse and skewing younger.

The Conversation

Cambodian community calls for casino union leader Chhim Sithar's release from prison after visit to Australia

The Australian ambassador has raised his concerns about the questionable basis for Chhim Sithar's arrest, but Cambodia's Justice Ministry says it doesn't need to respond.

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The Independent UK

A mafia hitman, a mobster and a newly-released inmate: Who killed James Whitey Bulger?

Almost four years after he was savagely beaten to death in federal prison, three men were charged with the murder of James ‘Whitey’ Bulger. Rachel Sharp reports on the suspects accused of killing the notorious mafia boss and the many unanswered questions that still remain

Asharq Al-Awsat

2 Killed in Protest over Iraqi Activist’s Prison Sentence

At least two protesters were killed Wednesday in southern Iraq after security forces opened fire on a crowd demonstrating against a harsh prison sentence handed down against a young Iraqi activist over a Twitter post, local officials said. Hundreds of protesters took to the streets in the city of Nasiriyah…

The Independent UK

Russian court upholds ex-reporter's 22-year treason sentence

A court in Moscow has rejected an appeal from a former journalist who was convicted of treason and given a 22-year prison sentence

The Independent UK

Three former St. Louis aldermen sentenced in bribery case

Three former St. Louis aldermen, including the longtime board president, will go to prison for accepting bribes from a businessman

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The Independent UK

2 killed in protest over Iraqi activist's prison sentence

Local officials say two protesters have been killed in southern Iraq after security forces opened fire on a crowd demonstrating against a harsh prison sentence handed down against a young Iraqi activist over a Twitter post

Tribune News Service

‘You should die in a locked closet’: Dallas judge’s admonishment reversed by Supreme Court

DALLAS — The state judicial ethics commission should not have reprimanded a Dallas judge who told a man convicted of brutally killing a child that he deserved to die locked in a closet, the Texas Supreme Court decided.

The Independent UK

‘Serious’ prison failures led to Whitey Bulger’s murder, bombshell DOJ report finds

Bombshell findings come more than four years after Bulger was savagely beaten to death inside US Penitentiary Hazelton in West Virginia and just months after three other inmates were charged with his murder

The Independent UK

Watchdog finds many failures before Whitey Bulger's killing

The Justice Department's inspector general has found a series of missteps by federal Bureau of Prisons officials preceded the 2018 beating death of Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger

The Guardian - UK

Public life needs people of humanity and vision. Matt Hancock was not one of them

As an ex-offender who now campaigns on penal policy, I saw him pander to the party’s worst instincts, says design executive and former Conservative party official Ashish Prashar

Reuters

Ukraine jails priest accused of assisting Russian troops

A Ukrainian priest from a church affiliated with Russia has been sentenced to 12 years in prison after being found guilty of assisting Russian, the Prosecutor General's Office said on Wednesday.

Manchester Evening News

Police hunting wanted man, 29, four months after release from prison

GMP says Ali Ahmed is known across Manchester

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