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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

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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.

AAP

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

The Independent UK

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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

Daily Mirror

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.

Tribune News Service

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

The Independent UK

Lisburn FIFA standard football pitches approved

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

Belfast Live

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

The Guardian - UK

'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.”

Manchester Evening News

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.

Reuters

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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

Daily Record

US rape suspect Nicholas Rossi to make freedom bid from Scots jail within days

Lawyers for Rossi, who is fighting extradition, are submitting fresh bail application to try and get him out of Saughton Prison.

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The Independent UK

Brittney Griner at 'weakest moment' in Russia, her wife says

WNBA star Brittney Griner is at her “absolute weakest moment in life right now” as she faces a hearing in Russia later this month for her appeal of a nine-year prison sentence for drug possession

Glasgow Live

Barlinnie prisoner took out 'contract' on rival days before taking his own life

A Fatal Accident Inquiry has heard that Paul Hamilton took out a 'contract' on a rival that he had clashed with inside the prison days before he took his own life.

Daily Record

Scots prisoner took out contract on rival inmate days before killing himself

Paul Hamilton had been serving a three-year sentence for bribing a man with £1,000 to drop an assault charge.

AAP

WA youth prison could face more lockdowns

Lawyers will seek a Federal Court injunction on the transfer of children to a standalone unit at a maximum-security adult prison in Western Australia.

The Guardian - US

Alabama prisoners strike over ‘horrendous’ conditions

Prisoners refuse to work for no pay in prison jobs in food service, laundry and maintenance

Wales Online

The 10-year-old boy with an Asbo who went on to be stabbed 27 times with a machete

Alfie Hodgin was one of the youngest people ever to get an anti-social behaviour and went on to have a gang career

ABC News

Paedophile who worked at Townsville childcare centre sentenced for sexual abuse of nephew and son

The man, already behind bars for his offending, will spend another nine years in prison for what the judge described as "depraved and degrading" crimes.

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