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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

Liverpool Echo

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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…

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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.

Reuters

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.

ABC News

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.

Los Angeles Times

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.

ABC 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

Manchester Evening News

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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

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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'

Irish Mirror

Scissor Sister Charlotte Mulhall settles at Limerick Prison after being 'lonely and sad'

The killer is understood to have finally accepted her surroundings

Dublin Live

Nativity plays and carols to return to Irish prisons this Christmas

They will also get to enjoy some bingo and board games on Christmas Day

The National (Scotland)

Countries should 'absolutely' follow Scotland's lead on prisons, expert says

OTHER countries should “absolutely” be following Scotland’s lead in looking to evolve beyond the “bankrupt” idea of traditional…

Daily Mirror

UK prisons 'most hostile workplaces in Western Europe' as days off with stress soar

The Prison Officers’ Association says staff are facing mental health issues because they’re operating in the most hostile workplaces in Western Europe

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