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As US pardons cannabis convictions Tories call for it to be classified the same as heroin

Atlantic rift widens on approach to drug laws

The Independent UK

A Pennsylvania prison gets a Scandinavian-style makeover – and shows how the US penal system could become more humane

The United States has the largest number of people incarcerated in the world – about 25% of all people imprisoned worldwide are in American prisons and jails.

The Conversation

Editorial: Hard labor will be death sentence for Pa. man detained in Russia

The Biden administration’s continues to fail U.S. citizen and Oakmont resident Marc Fogel, who was convicted in Russia of possessing less than an ounce of marijuana. In June, a Russian court sentenced Fogel, 61, to 14 years’ imprisonment at a labor camp. On Wednesday, his family announced that he had…

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Brickbat: Bad News

A BBC journalist has been given a second sentence of three years of hard labor by a court in Myanmar for making contact with an outlawed pro-democracy group. Htet Htet Khine received her first three-year prison sentence on Sept. 15 for violating a law barring incitement and false news. Since…

Reason

Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch 'hadn't a clue' pal Jonathan Dowdall would testify against him until days before court date

A prison source said: ”They were the best of buddies for the last year since the Monk was arrested and brought home from Spain."

Irish Mirror

Dumfries Prison to open its doors for staff recruitment days

The Scottish Prison Service is looking to boost its workforce at several jails across the country

Daily Record

Concern over lunch options at Bulwell Academy that are 'like feeding animals scrap'

"They're getting treated worse than in a prison"

Nottingham Post

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Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch 'hadn't a clue' his pal would testify against him

"They were the best of buddies for the last year since the Monk was arrested and brought home from Spain"

Dublin Live

Jail for repeat child abuse crimes in Tas

A 22-year-old Tasmanian man will spend up to five years in jail for accessing child abuse material days after being released from prison for the same crimes.

AAP

Philadelphia issues apology for decades-old prison experiments

PHILADELPHIA — The City of Philadelphia issued an apology Thursday for the unethical experiments a University of Pennsylvania faculty member of 50 years performed on Holmesburg Prison inmates between the 1950s and 1970s.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Arizona woman seeks leniency in ballot harvesting case

A parade of character witnesses provided a judge with glowing reports about a southern Arizona woman who admitted collecting four voted early ballots in the 2020 primary election as her lawyer seeks leniency

The Independent UK

Philadelphia apologizes for experiments on Black inmates

The city of Philadelphia issued an apology more than four decades after unethical medical experiments were allowed to be performed on mostly Black inmates at the city's since closed Holmesburg Prison from the 1950s to the 1970s

The Independent UK

Judge urges action against ice 'scourge'

Bradley Taylor has been sentenced to 23 years in prison for his violent murder of a kind stranger who invited him inside his home.

AAP

Stomach pains reported before prison death

A Victorian coroner is investigating the death of Clinton Austin after the Gunditjmara and Wiradjuri man died while in custody at Loddon Prison.

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The Independent UK

How Biden’s marijuana pardons could change thousands of lives

The plan likely won’t free anyone from prison, but it could help justice-impacted people after they get out

Daily Mirror

Russian professor fired after telling her students jail is better than being Putin's cannon fodder

Olga Lizunkova is accused of saying prison is better than becoming "cannon fodder" to her students who were at risk of being called up under Putin’s mobilisation drive

Tribune News Service

Second Whitmer kidnap plotter sentenced to prison

DETROIT — Kaleb Franks, a central figure in the largest domestic terrorism investigation in a generation who admitted to plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, was sentenced to four years in federal prison Thursday.

The Independent UK

18 months in prison for man who threatened Colorado official

A Nebraska man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for online threats he made last year against Colorado’s top elections official in one of the first cases brought by a federal task force devoted to protecting elections workers across the U.S. who have been subject to increasing threats

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Belfast Live

Lisburn FIFA standard football pitches approved

Councillors reassured after concerns over 'prison like' fencing around facility

The Guardian - UK

Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza accused of ‘high treason’

Opposition activist who has spoken out against war in Ukraine faces 20 years in prison if convicted

Manchester Evening News

'Appalling' Audi driver led cops on 100mph chase and caused massive crash

As he was arrested, he said: “I should have stopped, it was stupid. It’s because I’m disqualified, I know I’m going to prison.”

Reuters

Human rights concerns grow over Ecuador prison riots -U.N. officials

United Nations human rights officials are concerned about Ecuador's prison violence crisis, they said on Thursday, after yet another riot at a Guayaquil jail left at least 13 inmates dead and more than 20 prisoners and police injured.

Sports Illustrated

Brittney Griner’s Wife Recounts ‘Disturbing’ Call From Russia

Cherelle Griner discussed her conversation with the eight-time WNBA All-Star, who is currently serving a nine-year prison sentence in Russia.

France 24

Alabama inmates go on strike to protest ‘deplorable’ conditions, unpaid labour

Guards asleep on duty, meagre meals and cells covered in filth: incarcerated people across the southern US state of Alabama have refused to work since September 26 in protest against shocking conditions in overcrowded facilities, including violence, neglect and poor hygiene. The strike has brought prisons, which depend on and…

Daily Mirror

Who killed Jeffrey Dahmer and why gruesome cannibal killer was brutally murdered

Following the success of disturbing true-crime series Dahmer - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, Netflix has announced the release of a new documentary on the serial killer

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