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Nikolas Cruz: Who was the Parkland shooter’s biological mother Brenda Woodard?

Killer’s defence team argues birth mother’s drink and drug abuse ‘poisoned him in the womb’

The Independent UK

Malaysia’s ex–PM Najib sent to prison as final 1MDB appeal lost

Federal court upholds conviction and 12-year sentence linked to fraud, saying appeal ‘devoid of any merits’

The Guardian - UK

Policies to roll back abortion rights will hit incarcerated people particularly hard, advocates say

Policies governing abortion and reproductive health care services in U.S. prisons and jails were restrictive and often hostile even before the Supreme Court removed Roe v. Wade’s constitutional protections for abortions. After the June ruling, many reproductive services stand to be prohibited altogether, putting the health of incarcerated women who…

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From PM to prison: Malaysia's Najib feels alone and overwhelmed by 'betrayal'

Having played golf with U.S. presidents Donald Trump and Barack Obama, former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak will now count convicted murderers and drug traffickers as neighbours.

Reuters

Brittney Griner: Why was the basketball star was detained in Russia?

Basketball icon has been detained in Moscow for five months and counting

The Independent UK

Bristol agritech company to teach vertical farming to prisoners as part new trial

The government-backed rehabilitation scheme is being run by Lettus Grow - and is the first of its kind in the UK

Birmingham Post

Yes, slavery is on the ballot in some states

More than 150 years after it was officially outlawed in the United States, slavery will be on the ballot in five states in November, as a new abolitionist movement seeks to reshape prison labor.

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From Big Brother to jail: How Marco Pierre White junior finally ended up in a prison cell

From a good start in life to heroin addiction from the age of 18

Bristol Post

Najib leaves court with police escort after 1MDB conviction upheld

Malaysia's former prime minister Najib Razak left court in a black vehicle with a police escort on Tuesday, shortly after he was ordered to begin a 12-year prison sentence on charges related to the multi-billion dollar 1MBD graft scandal.

Reuters

Shotts paedo jailed after vigilantes trap him in online sting for second time

Craig Edgeler, 52, had completed a prison sentence only months before he was caught again.

Daily Record

Glasgow prisoner death probe after hammer attack brute dies in jail

Kenneth Wilson passed away at HMP Low Moss earlier this month after being banged up at Edinburgh High Court in January of 2018 for attacking a woman with a hammer.

Glasgow Live

Explainer-Malaysia's ex-PM Najib and the multi-billion dollar 1MDB scandal

Malaysia's top court ordered former prime minister Najib Razak to begin a 12-year prison sentence on Tuesday after rejecting his appeal against a conviction on charges related to a multi-billion dollar graft scandal at state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).

Reuters

Canberra man who killed disability advocate Sue Salthouse to be released from jail in six weeks

Mitchell Laidlaw is sentenced by the ACT Supreme Court to a two year and three month prison sentence, but will only spend three months there before serving the rest with a good behaviour order.

ABC News

Supreme Court orders shifting of ‘conman’ Sukesh Chandrashekhar from Tihar to Mandoli prison

Sukesh Chandrashekhar has been jailed on charges of purported money laundering and duping several people

The Hindu

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Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai to plead not guilty in national security case

Democracy activist and Apple Daily founder will stand trial without jury and could face up to life in prison

AAP

Boxer's friend admits part in window death

Khalid Baker, who spent 13 years in prison, is appealing his murder conviction as his acquitted co-accused says the Melbourne boxer was not near the incident.

Daily Record

Scots prisoner attacked inmate with sharpened toilet brush sentenced to 20 months behind bars

Kyle Leonard, 26, whittled the toilet brush it to a pointed end before using the makeshift weapon to attack rival Thomas Henderson.

Daily Record

Widow of murdered Scots aid worker David Haines 'will never forgive' as killer ISIS 'Beatle' jailed for life

David, from Perth, tragically lost his life at the hands of the twisted terror cell in September, 2014, after being kidnapped from a Syrian aid camp the previous year.

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Scots thug threatened to rape female police officers in rampage hours after jail release

Ross Cossans started rampaging across Perth immediately after being released from the city's maximum security prison after serving just half of his sentence.

The Independent UK

Argentine prosecutors request 12-year sentence for VP

Prosecutors are asking a judge to sentence Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández to 12 years in prison and bar her from holding public office for life for allegedly leading a criminal conspiracy that irregularly awarded public works contracts to a friend and ally

Reuters

Argentina prosecutor seeks 12-year jail sentence for VP Kirchner

An Argentine federal prosecutor requested a 12-year prison sentence on Monday for Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, the country's former president and current vice president, on corruption charges related to public works.

Reuters

Ukrainian soldiers accuse Russians of abuses in captivity

Three Ukrainian soldiers who say they were wounded and taken prisoner by Russia after one of the war's biggest battles and later released, on Monday accused their captors of torture and psychological pressure.

Chicago Sun-Times

Former Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson reports to prison in Wisconsin

The disgraced Bridgeport pol — a member of the city’s best-known political family — was found guilty in February of two counts of lying to regulators and five counts of filing false income tax returns.

Tribune News Service

Rapper Fetty Wap pleads guilty in drug-trafficking case, faces minimum 5 years in federal prison

NEW YORK — Rapper Fetty Wap has admitted to his role in a multimillion-dollar drug trafficking ring, pleading guilty in Long Island Federal Court Monday in exchange for a minimum five years in federal prison.

Reuters

U.S. says raised concerns to Saudi Arabia over activist's sentencing

The United States has raised "significant concerns" with Saudi Arabia over a 34-year prison sentence imposed on women's rights activist Salma al-Shehab, the State Department said on Monday.

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