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Hindalga prison inmate found dead

Was charged under POCSO

The Hindu

'My son was told he'd serve three-and-a-half years minimum - 14 years later and he's still locked up'

"I need justice for my son now - he has served way beyond his time"

Manchester Evening News

Man carried on cocaine dealing after his dad's imprisonment to pay off drug debts

Rhys Hall was a teenager when his father got him involved in cocaine dealing

Wales Online

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Prisoner on run for months is finally caught by police at his own birthday party

Forenza Murphy was serving a four-year prison sentence for robbery at Connecticut's Department of Corrections halfway house in Bridgeport in the US when he escaped on August 8

Daily Mirror

Scissor Sister Charlotte Mulhall and ISIS bride Lisa Smith become best friends in prison

'You would never picture the two of them talking but they seem to get on pretty well'

Irish Mirror

Glasgow gangland killer Paul Lyons 'loses parole' over iPhone at high security prison

Hamilton Sheriff Court heard earlier this week the 41-year-old's cell was searched by jail guards who found the phone stashed inside a hidden compartment of a box.

Glasgow Live

Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch 'laughed' at gardai after he was arrested and taken from cell

The 58-year-old was quizzed for a number of hours at a Dublin Garda station about his suspected involvement in organised crime

Dublin Live

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Hurricane Orlene heads for Mexico's former prison islands

Hurricane Orlene has rapidly strengthened as it swirls toward Mexico’s northwest Pacific coast, with a likely close brush with former prison islands being developed by the government as an ecotourism destination

The Independent UK

Shepparton disability provider Gallawah rapidly growing thanks to unique service

Tina Powney wondered whether her son, who lives with a range of disabilities, would be the next Indigenous person to die in custody during one of his periods in jail. She decided to create the kind of service she needed but could not find.

ABC News

Iranian American held in Tehran for seven years granted temporary release

Siamak Namazi, convicted along with father on espionage charges freed from Evin prison on one-week renewable furlough

The Guardian - US

U.S. citizen allowed to leave Iranian prison for a week

Siamak Namazi, an Iranian American imprisoned in Iran for nearly seven years on espionage-related charges rejected by Washington as baseless, has been allowed out of Tehran's Evin prison on a one-week furlough, his lawyer said on Saturday.

Reuters

Iran, U.S. prisoner swap mediated by regional state -Nournews

A regional country has mediated between Iran and the United States for the "simultaneous release of prisoners," Iran's Nournews said on Saturday, shortly after Tehran allowed an Iranian-American businessman out of prison on a one-week furlough.

Reuters

US wins release of Venezuela-held Americans in swap with Maduro

President Joe Biden’s administration said Venezuela freed seven detained Americans, including several U.S. oil executives, in a prisoner swap involving two members of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro’s family.

Tribune News Service

Venezuela releases 7 jailed Americans; US frees 2 prisoners

Venezuela’s government has freed seven Americans imprisoned in the South American country in exchange for the release of two nephews of President Nicholas Maduro’s wife who had been jailed for years by the United States on drug smuggling convictions

The Independent UK

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Daily Record

Heavily pregnant Scots mum 'jailed in Tenerife over unpaid fines' as fears raised for unborn baby

Officials found Jamielee Fielding, from West Lothian, had failed to pay the 420 Euro fines which were incurred in September 2021 and deemed her a fugitive.

The Times of India

Chhattisgarh HC alters murder charge to culpable homicide not amounting to murder, releases convict

RAIPUR: Chhattisgarh High Court has provided relief to a person, convicted by the Dantewada session court for the murder of his wife, by altering the charges to culpable homicide not amounting to murder and also ordered his release as he had already served ten years in prison.

Edinburgh Live

Pregnant West Lothian woman jailed in Tenerife after failing to pay small fines

Jamielee Fielding had travelled to the popular holiday destination to meet her father and brother for a trip in the sun, but was instead arrested upon her arrival.

WEKU

What it's like serving a life sentence in prison with no chance of release

When Calvin Duncan was 19 years old, he was arrested for a murder he didn't commit. Now, he's helping to tell the stories of other men who have found themselves behind bars for life.

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Daily Mirror

Murderer who beheaded student, 21, with saw kills himself in his prison cell

Mustafa Murat Ayhan had confessed to murdering victim Azra Gulendam Haytaoglu and brutally cutting her body into 13 pieces in Turkey before killing himself in his prison cell in Diyarbakir

The Guardian - US

What’s Prison For? Concise diagnosis of a huge American problem

Bill Keller, once editor of the New York Times, now with the Marshall Project, shows how the US came to imprison so many of its citizens, disproportionately Black and brown, and how such a gross injustice might yet be addressed

The National (Scotland)

SNP MP calls on Foreign Secretary to help pregnant Scot imprisoned abroad

A LIVINGSTON MP has called for the release of a pregnant woman who is imprisoned overseas.

The Independent UK

Newsom has mixed verdict on California criminal justice laws

California Gov. Gavin Newsom delivered a mixed verdict on more than three dozen criminal justice laws before his bill-signing deadline Friday

Reason

An Iowa Jury Awards $12 Million in Damages to a Man Who Was Wrongly Imprisoned for Sexual Abuse

A former guidance counselor served six years of a 25-year sentence thanks to a public defender's incompetence.

Reason

Bill Introduced To Bring Independent Oversight to Federal Prison System

The Federal Prison Oversight Act would create an independent ombudsman to investigate complaints about the Bureau of Prisons, something prison advocacy groups have long called for.

Chronicle Live

Protester who tied himself to goalpost at Everton v Newcastle match given six-week prison sentence

Louis McKechnie was found guilty of aggravated trespass after going onto the pitch

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