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Prison officers charged with manslaughter after inmate's death appear in court

Paul Fairhurst and Rachel Jameson face charges after Anthony Paine took his life in HMP Liverpool

Liverpool Echo

U.S.-Russia intelligence services in touch on possible prisoner swap - Lavrov

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday that discussions with Washington about potential prisoner exchanges were being conducted by the two countries' intelligence services, and that he hoped they would be successful.

Reuters

UK Government forced to ask police for cells after running out of prison space

The government has requested the use of 400 cells

Wales Online

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Notorious double killer is suspect in murder of Galway taxi driver beaten and strangled with car radio

Gardaí have confirmed a suspect is already in prison

Irish Mirror

Australian jailed in Myanmar applauded in Parliament

An Australian economist who spent almost two years imprisoned in Myanmar has received a hero’s welcome at Australia’s Parliament House

The Independent UK

'Get out of the f****** car': scalpel-wielding carjacker sentenced to six years

A man who carjacked a mother with her children in the backseat, stabbed a man with a scalpel and threatened a chemist staffer before fleeing the scene with two energy drinks on a vicious crime spree across Newcastle has been sentenced to six years and six months in prison.

Newcastle Herald

Cessnock prison guard sacked for assault after 'sex pest' claim

Assault followed allegation colleague called guard's relative a 'sex pest'.

Newcastle Herald

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California warden who feds say regularly sexually assaulted inmates heads to court

Hollywood stars Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman, convicted in the Varsity Blues college admission fraud case, were hardly the biggest offenders at the federal prison in Dublin, Calif.

Boston Herald

‘I lost my retirement, my career, my home’: the Americans imprisoned for being HIV-positive

Thirty-three states maintain laws tied to exposure or transmission, many developed long before the illness was understood

The Guardian - US

Sam Bankman-Fried on prospect of prison: This isn’t the time and place to think about that

Sam Bankman-Fried said he had a "bad month" while claiming he didn't try to commingle funds.

Fortune

Execution of Idaho death row inmate delayed after state unable to obtain lethal injection drugs

BOISE, Idaho — Idaho’s first execution in more than a decade, scheduled next month for death row inmate Gerald Pizzuto, was postponed Wednesday after the state prison system acknowledged that it has been unable to obtain the necessary lethal injection drugs.

Tribune News Service

Philanthropic group to invest $3.2 million to overturn unjust convictions, support exonerees

The funding will significantly boost the operations of Life After Justice, a Chicago group founded by two exonerees that seeks to overturn unjust convictions and support exonerees after they’re released from prison.

Chicago Sun-Times

Months after release from federal prison, TV pitchman Kevin Trudeau could face jail again

CHICAGO — TV pitchman Kevin Trudeau was warned years ago by a federal judge that a 10-year prison sentence for contempt wasn’t going to magically erase the whopping $37.6 million civil penalty he still owes for lying about his controversial weight-loss book.

Chicago Tribune

Man who killed ‘Gone Girl’ actress Lisa Banes in hit-and-run gets 1 to 3 years in prison

NEW YORK — The unlicensed driver who fatally mowed down “Gone Girl” actress Lisa Banes with his moped on a Manhattan street was sentenced to one to three years in prison Wednesday — infuriating her loved ones after he tried to dodge accountability one last time.

Tribune News Service

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The Independent UK

Family of former Marine being held in Russia concerned after their communications with him stop

Family says they have missed a scheduled call with Mr Whelan, who has been imprisoned in a Russian camp for more than two years

The Independent UK

Mexico questions US on whereabouts of notorious drug lord nicknamed ‘La Barbie’

“Over the course of the day or tomorrow everything will be known,” Mexico’s president said during a press conference this week

Tribune News Service

Man who killed ‘Gone Girl’ actress Lisa Banes in hit-and-run gets 1 to 3 years in prison

NEW YORK — The man who mowed down and killed “Gone Girl” actor Lisa Banes on a Manhattan street will spend one to three years behind bars for the crime.

The Independent UK

Judge bemoans NYC's bike hazard in 'Gone Girl' actor's death

A judge has decried New York City's problems with electric and gas-powered bikes as he sentenced the electric scooter rider who crashed into “Gone Girl” actor Lisa Banes to one to three years in prison for his manslaughter conviction

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Evening Standard

Anna Reed: Bouncer who killed British heiress has 18 year sentence extended

A nightclub bouncer sentenced to 18 years in prison for killing his British heiress girlfriend has had his sentence extended by six months after his appeal failed.

Chronicle Live

Sunderland grandad armed himself with cigarette lighter shaped like gun after 'yobs' threw stones

David Chapman, of Sunderland, has been released from prison after spending more than seven months remanded in custody

Manchester Evening News

Prisoners could be held in police cells as government tries to cut jail overcrowding

Critics say the decision paints a picture of a government in chaos

Daily Mirror

Death row killer spared lethal injection after he's poked with needles for hour

Alan Eugene Miller was due to be executed on September 22 but his death was scrapped after prison staff were unable to connect an IV line as he pleaded with a judge to change his execution method

Reuters

U.S. deeply concerned about Whelan, American jailed in Russia -White House

The United States is "deeply concerned" about detained American Paul Whelan in Russia, and has not been able to get information from Moscow on his whereabouts or condition, White House national security spokesman John Kirby said on Wednesday.

Al Jazeera

US ‘deeply concerned’ about Whelan, citizen detained in Russia

Family of Paul Whelan, jailed on espionage charges in Russia, says they have not heard from him in days.

The Independent UK

Imprisoned Belarusian activist undergoes surgery

Maria Kolesnikova, a prominent member of the Belarusian opposition serving an 11-year prison sentence for helping stage anti-government protests has undergone an undisclosed surgical procedure

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