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Katherine community asked to back justice reinvestment project to tackle crime

Justice reinvestment has seen prisons in the US state of Texas shut down. Could it work in a rural town with one of the highest crime rates in Australia?

ABC News

Corrections officers shoot, kill 2 inmates during fight at Northern California prison

Two men were shot and killed by corrections officers during a fight with another inmate Tuesday at a state prison in Northern California, according to prison officials.

Los Angeles Times

Man sentenced to prison in severed head case in Las Vegas

A 58-year-old ex-convict has been sentenced to 18 to 45 years in prison for killing and dismembering a man whose severed head was found in a stolen pickup truck about a year ago in Las Vegas

The Independent UK

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Matt Hancock says he opposed 'bonkers' Covid plan to release 'thousands' of prisoners

The ex-Health Secretary who has just emerged from the I'm A Celebrity Jungle said officials 'insisted' on releasing inmates to ease pressure on the system during the first nationwide lockdown

Daily Mirror

Gaetz friend gets 11 years for sex crime, other counts

A former Florida tax collector whose arrest led to a federal probe into U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for sex trafficking of a minor and other crimes

The Independent UK

Mississippi golfer bites off playing partner’s nose during fight over their match

The man faces up to seven years in prison if convicted.

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Gaetz associate Joel Greenberg sentenced to 11 years in prison for charges including sex trafficking a minor

Mr Gaetz said he ‘deeply regretted’ his friendship with Greenberg

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Joel Greenberg sentenced to 11 years in prison for sex trafficking, other crimes

ORLANDO, Fla. — Joel Greenberg — who as Seminole County’s tax collector trafficked a teenager, stalked a political rival, stole identities and spent taxpayer funds on paid sex and cryptocurrency, among other misdeeds — was sentenced to 11 years in prison Thursday morning, bringing to a close one of the…

Orlando Sentinel

Calls for Corrections to run police custody units

The Police Association and Corrections Association have renewed the idea that those in custody could be better looked after under a changed framework.

Newsroom.co.nz

Yoga teacher guilty of murdering her lodger after claiming it was self-defence

Dawn Lewis appeared to have stabbed herself in bid to avoid justice, Bristol Crown Court told

The Independent UK

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

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

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The Independent UK

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

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

'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.

Boston Herald

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.

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The Guardian - US

‘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

Fortune

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.

Tribune News Service

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.

Chicago Sun-Times

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 Tribune

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.

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 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.

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

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