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Commentary: After my favorite 5th-grader of all time went to prison, chess kept us connected

The letter I received from my former student thanked me for teaching him chess in fifth grade. It was a setup. Now, 11 years later, he was inviting me to play his game of chess — inmates’ chess. He is still my favorite fifth-grader. He was sweet and charismatic then.…

Los Angeles Times

‘Gunslinger of Tarragona’ euthanised in prison after being injured in police shootout

Eugen Sabau shot three of his colleagues at the security services firm where he worked in Tarragona

Evening Standard

Malaysia ex-PM Najib moves from luxurious lifestyle to lockup

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak's new prison lodgings may be less than an hour's drive from his mansion in Kuala Lumpur's affluent Bukit Tunku neighbourhood, but it is a world away from the luxury he is used to.

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Dog breeding Lanarkshire gangster code named Original Syrup in prison after vet surgery raid

Scott Bennett was jailed at Glasgow High Court today after police uncovered thousands of pounds worth of cocaine and cannabis at Platinum Pet Care and K9 Fertility.

Glasgow Live

Man Jailed For Sex Offences Has Been Given A Retrial After Exes Said He Was ‘Gentle’ ‘Kind’

He was originally sentenced to seven years in prison in late 2020.

Pedestrian.tv

Royal Commission finds high number went from welfare to prison

The Royal Commission on Abuse in Care has confirmed what many have always known - many of those who went through the welfare system ended up filling jails

Newsroom.co.nz

‘Absolutely glorious’: Malaysians hail jailing of Najib Razak

Najib Razak becomes Malaysia’s first former prime minister to go to prison after top court upholds his graft conviction.

Al Jazeera

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Paedophile surgeon Michael Shine praises decision to drop cases against him as 'right thing'

He was released from prison in January after serving three years for sexual abuse of seven boys

Dublin Live

US prison warden charged with sexually abusing 2 more women

The former warden of a California women’s prison, who is already facing federal charges alleging he sexually abused inmates, was charged Tuesday with sexually abusing two other female prisoners

The Independent UK

Call shows inmates knew 'Whitey' Bulger was moving to prison

New details revealed in court show that inmates at a troubled West Virginia prison where James “Whitey” Bulger was beaten to death found out ahead of time that the notorious Boston gangster would be arriving

The Independent UK

2nd ex-prison guard convicted in inmate beating death

A former Illinois prison guard could face life in prison after a jury found him guilty of violating the civil rights of a 65-year-old inmate who died after correctional officers beat him in a lockup more than four years ago

The Independent UK

Idaho Supreme Court rules for governor’s authority on clemency decision in execution case

BOISE, Idaho — The Idaho Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday that the governor maintains the authority to reject a clemency decision to reduce a prisoner’s sentence by the state’s parole board, in turn restarting a longtime death row inmate’s execution process.

Tribune News Service

Former Louisville detective pleads guilty to falsifying affidavit in Breonna Taylor shooting

Kelly Goodlett faces up to five years in prison

The Independent UK

North Carolina trans woman’s lawsuit against state prison can proceed, judge says

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The case of a transgender woman in prison who is suing the state of North Carolina for gender-affirming medical care can proceed, a federal judge decided on Tuesday.

Tribune News Service

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Reuters

Jailed shooter with a death wish is euthanised in Spain

Spanish prison authorities on Tuesday euthanised a man who had shot and wounded four people in December and was subsequently wounded in a shootout with the police, rendering him paralyzed and begging to be allowed to die while awaiting trial.

Manchester Evening News

Man jailed after he's arrested at home in police and council operation

Jack Stockwell has been sentenced to five years in prison

The Conversation

Sexual violence in South Africa: where are the male victims?

Men and boys count among the victims of sexual violence. Estimates and contexts vary, but it seems that worldwide, they make up around 10% of victims of sexual violence. According to Rees Mann, the founder of South African Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse, one in six adult males in the…

The Independent UK

Malaysia's imprisoned ex-PM Najib was once a political star

Najib Razak is Malaysia’s first former prime minister to go to prison -- a mighty fall for a veteran British-educated politician whose father and uncle were the country’s second and third prime ministers, respectively

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The Independent UK

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 Guardian - 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’

Tribune News Service

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…

Reuters

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.

The Independent UK

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

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

Birmingham Post

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

Tribune News Service

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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