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Hollywood Undead's Jorel Decker Says 'If They'll Trade A Russian War Criminal For Americans Locked Up Over Weed, They Should Release All Weed Prisoners In America'

“It’s a love-hate relationship. Any grower can relate to that,” says Jorel Decker, founder of the successful nu-metal group Hollywood Undead when asked about cannabis.

Benzinga

Adnan Syed: What we know about two alternate suspects in 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee

The Serial podcast named Ronald Lee Moore, a career criminal and accused murderer from Baltimore, as a suspect in Hae Min Lee’s slaying

The Independent UK

Convicted murderer hired by Vladimir Putin to fight Ukraine surrenders and defects

Yevgeny Nuhzin, who was sentenced to 24 years in jail after killing someone in 1999, is reportedly one of thousands of prisoners released from prison to fight for Russia's struggling armed forces

Daily Mirror

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Doctors rush to use Supreme Court ruling to escape opioid charges

Dr. Nelson Onaro conceded last summer that he’d written illegal prescriptions, although he said he was thinking only of his patients. From a tiny clinic in Oklahoma, he doled out hundreds of opioid pills and dozens of fentanyl patches with no legitimate medical purpose.

Tribune News Service

Russian proxy court in east Ukraine convicts ex-OSCE staff on treason charges

A Russian proxy court in eastern Ukraine on Monday sentenced two former Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) staff to 13 years in prison on treason charges that the OSCE called "inhumane and repugnant".

Reuters

Notorious killer pursues parole for second time after 23 years in prison

Craig Belcher brutally killed 22 year old, Kirsty Carver with a hammer at a petrol station in 1998.

Daily Record

Prisoner from Greenock jail escapes while at hospital

The prisoner was attending for treatment at accident and emergency.

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An American held hostage in Afghanistan has been freed in a prisoner swap

Mark Frerichs, a Navy veteran turned civilian contractor, was abducted in January 2020. His release centered on a prisoner exchange involving Bashir Noorzai, a notorious drug lord and Taliban member.

WEKU

Wisconsin governor challenged to stop all inmate paroles

Republican gubernatorial candidate Tim Michels is calling on Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers to halt all paroles in the state, even though a governor can’t unilaterally order them to stop and some paroles are mandated by law

The Independent UK

Prison officer from Saggart appears in court charged with possession of €144,000 worth of drugs

Marta Cypara and co-accused Matausz Kilkowski appeared before a hearing of Tallaght District Court

Dublin Live

Prison officer appears in court charged with possession of €144,000 worth of drugs

Marta Cypara and co-accused Matausz Kilkowski appeared before a hearing of Tallaght District Court

Irish Mirror

Taliban release American Mark Frerichs in prisoner swap

Frerichs is the last American known to be held hostage in Afghanistan

Axios

Locked Up: The prison labor that built business empires

In a joint investigation, reporters from the Associated Press and Reveal at the Center for Investigative Reporting spent months unearthing the history of convict leasing that built business empires

The Independent UK

Washington Steps Up Efforts to Close Guantanamo

US President Joe Biden’s administration is revamping its efforts to close the Guantanamo Bay prison by appointing a senior diplomat to oversee detainee transfers, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. The new special representative, Tina Kaidanow, a State Department official, has been chosen to review the case files of…

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Former NY women’s prison detainees pursue lawsuit over sex assault and abuse by guards at closed Manhattan lockup

Like other state prisoners from New York City, A.Q. wanted to be closer to home — so much so she lobbied the state correction commissioner to finish her sentence at a Manhattan women’s prison.

ABC News

Michelle Foster's killer hospitalised for homicidal ideation day after release from jail, inquest hears

A man who killed an Adelaide woman in a random attack at a suburban shopping centre was hospitalised a day after his release from prison because he was experiencing homicidal ideation, a coronial inquest has heard.

AAP

'Isolation, brutality' at WA youth prison

The disability royal commission has heard harrowing evidence about historical conditions inside the Banksia Hill juvenile detention centre in Perth.

The Independent UK

California 'chameleon' awaits 2016 kidnapping hoax sentence

Federal prosecutors say a Northern California woman should be sentenced to eight months in prison for carefully faking her own kidnapping

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The Independent UK

Kentucky school shooter imprisoned 25 years seeks parole

A Kentucky man who killed three students and injured five more in a school shooting a quarter century ago has a chance at parole this week

AAP

Ex-bikie avoids jail for Just Right drugs

A former Mongols bikie says life is going well after ditching gangs and cocaine and has avoided prison after admitting he trafficked cocaine.

The Times of India

1/3 of foreign prisoners in India lodged in West Bengal jails

KOLKATA: More than one-third of foreign prisoners in India are lodged in different jails across Bengal, the higest in the country. According to recent data released by the National Crime Records Bureau, a total of 1,746 foreign inmates are lodged in Bengal jails.

Chicago Tribune

An Illinois man is serving a life sentence for 6 grams of cocaine. He is fighting to be freed

CHICAGO — Michael Lightfoot is 66 years old. He survived prostate cancer. He has grandchildren and great-grandchildren who love him. He has health problems and doesn’t think he has that much time left.

ABC News

Mother-baby unit at Tasmania's Risdon prison has been underutilised, a report has found

It is of "grave concern" the unit, which acknowledges the importance of the relationship between incarcerated mothers and their babies, has not been utilised for that purpose, a report finds.

Daily Mirror

Keira Knightley weeps as she's told how RAF bombardier relative was shot down in war

The Hollywood star heard how her great uncle Andrew spent 18 months as a prisoner of war on Channel 4's documentary My Grandparents' War

The Hindu

What numbers don’t tell us

Prisons are meant to facilitate rehabilitation but have become disempowering spaces with a mental health crisis

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