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Russia Ready to Discuss Prisoner Swap with US, Lavrov Says

Russia said on Friday it was ready to discuss prisoner swaps with the United States through an existing diplomatic channel, a day a Russian court sentenced basketball star Brittney Griner to nine years in prison for a drugs offence. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said President Vladimir Putin and his US…

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After Griner gets jail, Russia ready to discuss swap with U.S

Russia said on Friday it was ready to discuss a prisoner swap with the United States in private, a day after a Russian court jailed U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner for nine years for a drugs offence.

Reuters

Family fights to free beloved US lawyer imprisoned in Venezuela while on vacation

Family of Eyvin Hernandez, a Los Angeles public defender, calls for Biden to help facilitate his return: ‘He is more valuable to the world being free’

The Guardian - US

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Suspected Mountjoy killers seen on CCTV acting 'like nothing happened' moments after viciously beating Robert O'Connor

A number of men were identified through CCTV which showed them fleeing the cell where O’Connor was viciously beaten on the C2 landing and going into a separate one

Irish Mirror

Mountjoy thugs suspected of killing inmate 'changed clothes' after vicious fatal attack

The investigation is continuing into O’Connor’s murder after his life-support machine was switched off in Dublin’s Mater Hospital in the early hours of Wednesday morning

Dublin Live

WA government says transfer of Banksia Hill detainees to Casuarina has 'worked'

The West Australian government claims the relocation of young offenders to an adult prison has "worked", despite reports of self-harm emerging, and a retired judge saying the transfer represents a "broken system".

ABC News

Dad reached over kids to fatally stab mum

James Leonard Fairhall will spend at least 18 years and six months in prison for fatally stabbing his ex-partner in the neck in front of their three children.

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James Fairhall jailed for 25 years for murder of partner Noeline Dalzell in front of their children

Melbourne man James Leonard Fairhall is sentenced in the Supreme Court of Victoria to 25 years in prison over the 2020 murder of his partner Noeline Dalzell.

ABC News

Electricity theft at record levels amid cost-of-living crisis

Electricity theft is punishable by up to five years in prison.

The Independent UK

Why is Brittney Griner in a Russian jail? What's the offer to get her out?

WNBA star Brittney Griner has been sentenced to nine years in Russian prison in a sentence that US President Joe Biden has deemed "unacceptable", but what did she do and what's the government's plan to get her out?

ABC News

Relatives of POWs call on Red Cross to help find loved ones

Relatives of prisoners of war taken captive by Russia after the fall of Azovstal steel plant are calling for answers a week on from a prison attack in a separatist region of eastern Ukraine that reportedly killed dozens

The Independent UK

Man who threatened Dr. Fauci, other official, gets 3 years

A West Virginia man has been sentenced to three years in federal prison after sending emails that threatened Dr. Anthony Fauci and another federal health official

The Independent UK

Albert Woodfox, inmate who spent decades in solitary, dies

Albert Woodfox, a former inmate who spent decades in isolation at a Louisiana prison and then became an advocate for prison reforms after he was released, died Thursday of complications from COVID-19

The Independent UK

US keeping ex-prison chief as top adviser after rocky tenure

The federal Bureau of Prisons is keeping its former director on the payroll as an adviser to his successor, at least for a short time

The Independent UK

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Morning mail: climate breakdown supercharging extreme weather, fears for jailed teens, China’s military drills

Friday: New analysis reveals the devastating intensification of heatwaves, floods, fires and droughts. Plus: what to read this month

Salon

Brittney Griner sentenced to 9 years

"I hope that in your ruling that it doesn't end my life here," Griner said prior to sentencing

The Guardian - US

Albert Woodfox, held in solitary confinement for 43 years, dies aged 75

Member of ‘Angola Three’ was wrongfully convicted of 1972 murder of Louisiana prison guard and released only in 2016

Reuters

Reactions after U.S. basketball star Griner sentenced in Russia

Following are reactions after U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner was sentenced in a Russian court on Thursday to nine years in prison for illegally bringing hashish-infused vape cartridges into the country. She had admitted having the cartridges but called it an honest mistake.

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The Independent UK

EXPLAINER: What will it take to get Brittney Griner home?

Now that WNBA star Brittney Griner has been convicted of drug possession and sentenced to nine years in prison, attention turns to the prospect of a prisoner swap between the United States and Russia that could get her home

Tribune News Service

Griner reaction: WNBA players ‘having a hard time’ with verdict

MINNEAPOLIS — Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve said Thursday that her team's players and coaching staff "have been glued to seeing Brittney [Griner] in the trial" that ended with the Phoenix Mercury star being found guilty of drug possession and sentenced to nine years in prison by a Russian judge.

Tribune News Service

WNBA’s Brittney Griner gets 9-year Russia jail term in drug case

A Moscow court sentenced WNBA player Brittney Griner to nine years in prison on drug charges, raising the stakes in deadlocked talks between Russia and the U.S. on a possible prisoner exchange involving the basketball star.

Chicago Sun-Times

WNBA denounces nine-year prison-term for Brittney Griner

“Today’s verdict and sentencing is unjustified and unfortunate, but not unexpected and Brittney Griner remains wrongly detained,” the WNBA and NBA’ said in a joint statement.

WEKU

Undercover journalist in Afghanistan finds Taliban are abducting, imprisoning women

Filmmaker Ramita Navai has seen girls and women forced to marry Taliban members or arrested for violating the morality code. Her new PBS Frontline documentary is Afghanistan Undercover.

The Guardian - AU

‘We will see a death’: advocates fear for children inside maximum-security Perth prison after boy self-harms

Teenager taken to WA hospital is one of 17 young people transferred from Banksia Hill juvenile detention centre

Daily Mirror

Man with half a head jailed for 10 years for attacking supermarket shop worker

The judge rejected an appeal to and sentenced Robert Matthew Berkopec to 10 years in Montana State Prison, saying it was his own violence that put him there

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