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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

The Independent UK

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.

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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

The Independent UK

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.

Evening Standard

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

Chronicle Live

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

Manchester Evening News

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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

Daily Mirror

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.

Reuters

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.

Al Jazeera

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

The Independent UK

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

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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.

The Independent UK

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 Guardian - 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

Wales Online

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

Strikes by barristers are being partly blamed

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Daily Mirror

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"

The Independent UK

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

Manchester Evening News

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

Reuters

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.

The Independent UK

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’

Glasgow Live

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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