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Thug, 17, murdered innocent man he thought was trying to meet up with teenage girl

Joshua Boardman, who previously pleaded guilty to murder, was on Wednesday jailed for life and told he must serve a minimum of 14 years in prison

Daily Mirror

Janusz Walus and parole for prisoners serving life sentences in South Africa: the weaknesses of the court's decision

The murder of Chris Hani, a South African liberation struggle hero, by Janusz Walus on 10 April 1993 almost derailed the country’s transition from apartheid to democracy. Now, almost 30 years later, the constitutional court has ruled that Walus (69) must be released on parole. The move has been met…

The Conversation

New sanctions on Russians recruiting conscripts and prisoners to Putin’s war machine

Mobilised civilians believed to be used as ‘cannon fodder’ in stalled invasion of Ukraine

The Independent UK

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Mandela grandson protests release of anti-apartheid leader Hani's killer

A small group of demonstrators gathered outside South Africa's parliament in Cape Town on Wednesday to protest against the release from prison of the man who killed anti-apartheid leader Chris Hani in 1993.

Reuters

South Africans protest pending release of Hani's killer

More than a thousand people have protested outside a prison in South Africa against the pending release of Janusz Walus, the convicted killer of anti-apartheid leader Chris Hani

The Independent UK

MoJ requests urgent use of 400 police cells for male prisoners

Prisons minister writes to police chiefs to establish Operation Safeguard due to lack of space in men’s prisons

The Guardian - UK

Offenders could be held in police cells as prisons nearly full from 'surge'

Strikes by barristers are being partly blamed

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UK prisons running out of space as government asks police to use 400 cells

Justice Minister Damian Hinds told MPs he had triggered Operation Safeguard after an "acute and sudden increase in the prison population"

Daily Mirror

Prisoners could be held in police cells in bid to cut jail overcrowding

Justice minister Damian Hinds said the Government has asked to use 400 police cells to hold inmates after a sudden increase in the prison population.

The Independent UK

Freed Japan-China friendship group head says charges false

The former head of a Japan-China friendship group who recently returned to Japan from six years in a Beijing prison for what he said were false spying charges says he still hopes to see China become a global leader but with better treatment of human rights

The Independent UK

Judge blasts scourge of knife crime after locking up murderer who stabbed new dad to death in the street

Rushaun Brown will serve at least 24 years in prison for the murder of Neri Morse

Manchester Evening News

Jailed Belarus protest leader was in serious condition when taken to hospital - ally

Jailed Belarusian protest leader Maria Kolesnikova was already in a serious condition when she was taken from prison to a hospital to be operated on and her diagnosis has not been disclosed, a political ally said on Wednesday.

Reuters

UK prisons near capacity triggering emergency plan to use 400 police cells

Justice minister says contingency plan not used since 2008 will ensure ‘smooth running of the prison estate’

The Independent UK

Sepsis death of Glasgow woman arrested in vomit-stained pyjamas highlighted in prison death report

A damning report into prison deaths in Scotland has found that a record number of people died in custody over the two years with the case of a Glasgow woman highlighted as an example.

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Liverpool Echo

Drug dealer, 22, jailed after being found with £14k of crack cocaine

Liam Southart was sentenced to to seven years and one month in prison

Daily Record

Family of young Scots woman who died behind bars slam prison service as deaths soar

Linda and Stuart Allan have hit out after a new report from Glasgow University found there have been 121 deaths in prison in Scotland since the start of 2022.

The New Daily

Billy McFarland, the Fyre Fest organiser, is back with another venture

Fyre Festival's organiser Billy McFarland is out of prison and back with a new business which he hopes will repay his debts.

Daily Record

'Deeply disturbing' Prison deaths in Scotland at record high as drugs and suicide fatalities on rise

Researchers from Glasgow University claim that while covid infections had an impact on numbers, it was the increase in deaths from suicide and drugs that had been the most significant.

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Irish Mirror

The rise and fall of Sean Quinn - From leaving school at 15 to Ireland's richest man and prison

The business tycoon was flying high during the boom with many ventures but was bankrupt by 2011

Chronicle Live

Cowgate brute threatened to 'do a Raoul Moat' if he was jailed for strangling and assaulting partner

Robert Strain had been arrested for the violent attack on his girlfriend when he began harassing her in a bid for her to drop the charges

The Canberra Times

Prisoner had 'no forethought' in 'short-lived' escape with fiancée

The prisoner whose fiancée busted him out of a corrective services car has been sentenced.

ABC News

Canberra prisoner Kane Quinn sentenced for escaping custody when girlfriend rammed corrections car

While being driven to a medical appointment last year, Kane Quinn escaped custody when his girlfriend crashed into the car that was transporting him — sparking a city-wide manhunt.

Reuters

Family concerned about whereabouts of Whelan, American jailed in Russia

The brother of Paul Whelan, an American jailed in Russia, said on Wednesday his family was concerned about his whereabouts as they had not heard from him for days and had received unclear messages from prison staff that he was moved to the prison hospital.

The Independent UK

Inter-American Human Rights Court says Nicaragua in contempt

The Inter-American Human Rights Court has declared the government of Nicaragua in contempt of court for ignoring rulings on political prisoners

Insider UK

Prisoners taught how to set up businesses in bid to cut re-conviction rate

New course aims to set prisoners nearing release up with the skills needed to become an entrepreneur

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