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Brazil leftist Lula wins third presidential term to redeem tarnished legacy

Brazilian leftist leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won a third presidential term on Sunday in a remarkable comeback for the country's first working class president, whose storied political career nearly ended in prison.

Reuters

40 years ago, protesters were celebrated for saving the Franklin River. Today they could be jailed for months

The 1982 campaign to stop the building of Tasmania’s Franklin River dam was a defining moment in the history of Australia’s social movements. Those events are now being recounted in the documentary Franklin, screening throughout the country.

The Conversation

Men wrongly convicted of Malcolm X murder to receive $36 million from New York City and state

Muhammad Aziz and Khalil Islam spent decades in prison after the civil rights leader was assassinated in 1965.

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POW Requiem premieres in Canberra to honour Australian World War II prisoners

The POW Requiem, featuring 24 movements, was performed over the weekend for the first time, in honour of Australia's thousands of World War II prisoners.

ABC News

Adelaide schoolboy who allegedly possessed extremist material to be sentenced as an adult

A 15-year-old Adelaide schoolboy who allegedly possessed extremist material and coached others online about how to make bombs will be sentenced as an adult, meaning he could face up to 15 years in prison.

ABC News

New York city and state to pay $36m to men cleared of murder of Malcolm X

Payments to follow exoneration of Muhammad Aziz and the late Khalil Islam who both spent decades in prison

The Guardian - UK

Men exonerated in Malcolm X killing to receive $36 million

The city of New York will settle lawsuits filed on behalf of two men who were exonerated last year for the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X

The Independent UK

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No decision about air conditioning at Roebourne Prison, as another summer of heatwaves looms

The government says it will not install air conditioning in cells at Roebourne Prison despite internal temperatures soaring over 50 degrees Celsius.

ABC News

I had a dream house, top job and a loving family but lost it all to alcohol and gambling

Dad-of-three Daniel Fincham downed four bottles of wine a day and blew £16,000 in an hour until he hit rock bottom

Manchester Evening News

Families get final say before Parkland shooter is sentenced

Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz will be sentenced to life in prison this week, but not before the families of the 17 people he murdered get the chance to tell him what they think

The Independent UK

Records: Lying officers unpunished in 2018 inmate death

Three former Illinois prison guards face life in prison for a beating that led to the death of inmate Larry Earvin in 2018

The Independent UK

Guantanamo Bay's oldest prisoner freed after being held for 18 years without charge

Saifullah Paracha was captured in an FBI sting two years after the 9/11 attacks and has been locked up ever since despite never being charged of a crime

Daily Mirror

Woman told inmate husband was dead - before prison bosses admit mix-up with killer

Police told the wife of a man with the same surname as serial killer Anthony Hardy that her husband, who was also in prison, had died at HMP Frankland in County Durham

Daily Mirror

Growing prison populations in Australia are costing $4.2bn a year despite falling crime rates, Labor says

‘If the incarceration rate had remained at its 1985 level, Australia would have saved $2.6bn,’ says assistant treasury minister Andrew Leigh

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Liverpool Echo

Faces of two men hanged together in Walton jail's first double execution

Everyone executed at Walton was hanged for murder - although one was a tragic case of wrongful conviction

Daily Record

Drugs and phones smuggled into Scots jails via hair brushes and kids chocolate

Drugs and mobiles are being hidden in Kinders and tennis balls.

Liverpool Echo

Prisoners letters photocopied to stop crooks soaking them in spice

HMP Liverpool has introduced the measure to try and stop psychoactive substances getting to inmates

Daily Mirror

Jail bosses 'help 60 prisoners' become dads through IVF at their own expense

The inmates were granted permission to take part in IVF with their wives or girlfriends as conjugal visits are not allowed in British prisons. The prisoners or their families must pay for the treatment

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The Independent UK

US releases Guantanamo Bay’s oldest prisoner after holding him two decades without charge

The Pakistani national was never charged with any crimes but had been considered too dangerous to be released

Evening Standard

Man released from California prison after 38 years following new DNA evidence

A man who spent more than 38 years behind bars convicted of murder and two attempted murders has been released from a California prison after long-untested DNA evidence pointed to a different person.

WEKU

The U.S. releases the oldest prisoner in Guantánamo Bay

Saifullah Paracha, 75, was held at the U.S. facility for 18 years without ever being charged. He arrived in Pakistan on Saturday.

Reuters

Pakistani returns home after 18 years of U.S. detention in Guantanamo prison camp

A Pakistani national held by the United States for 18 years in the Guantanamo Bay prison camp without trial on suspicion of links to al Qaeda returned home to Pakistan on Saturday, Pakistan and the United States said.

Daily Mirror

Innocent man who spent 38 years in prison finally freed by DNA evidence

Maurice Hastings spent almost four decades behind bars for a crime he didn't commit. He always professed his innocence. At a news conference after his release, Hastings said: 'I'm not standing up here a bitter man'

Al Jazeera

Guantanamo’s oldest inmate Saifullah Paracha freed after 19 years

Saifullah Paracha, who was arrested in 2003 and accused of financing al-Qaeda, was never charged like most prisoners.

WEKU

DNA evidence has freed a California man imprisoned for more than 38 years

Maurice Hastings spent nearly four decades behind bars for a 1983 murder and two attempted murders. He was released after long-untested DNA evidence pointed to another person, the L.A. County DA said.

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