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Conditions in prisons during heat waves pose deadly threats to incarcerated people and prison staff

Extreme heat is taking an increasing toll across the U.S. in summertime. People who are incarcerated are among society’s most vulnerable groups and have been especially affected.

The Conversation

Saudi doctoral student gets 34 years in prison for tweets

A Saudi court has sentenced a doctoral student and women’s rights advocate to 34 years in prison for spreading “rumors” on Twitter and retweeting dissidents

The Independent UK

Star Hobson: Toddler's sadistic killer's life under guard in prison for her own safety

The Channel 5 programme showed details of Savannah Brockhill being put under guard for her own safety, after she was convicted of murdering one-year-old Star Hobson

Daily Mirror

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'Neighbour put up blinding lights that stay on all night - it's like a prison'

A person has been left in disbelief after their neighbour installed floodlights all the way around their property and leaves them on all night - with people asking if they're planning for a zombie invasion

Daily Mirror

Police on the hunt for man who has escaped prison

Gavin Phythian is known to have connections in Tameside, Oldham and Rochdale.

Manchester Evening News

With Blues Brothers Con, Dan Aykroyd tries to ‘purge’ the bad karma from Joliet prison

Aykroyd and Jim Belushi will team up to perform at the fest, which also features local blues music and a re-creation of Chicago’s Maxwell Street Market.

Chicago Sun-Times

Indian gang-rape victim 'numb' after attackers freed

NEW DELHI: A Muslim woman who was gang-raped as 14 people were murdered during one of post-independence India’s worst religious riots has said she is “numb” after her attackers were released early from prison.

Bangkok Post

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Illinois is failing to provide adequate health care for prisoners

The state committed itself to change by entering into a consent decree in the Lippert vs. Jeffreys class action lawsuit on prison medical care in 2018, but an acceptable plan to provide care has never been submitted to the court.

Chicago Sun-Times

'Pain in the a***' wife killer Joe O'Reilly moved to new prison to 'reflect on bad behaviour'

Exclusive: Sources say there has been a frequent 'clash of personalities' between Joe O’Reilly and several prisoners in Wheatfield - leading prison bosses to conclude it was best for him to be moved

Irish Mirror

Department of Justice apologises over mistaken release of 'sensitive' WA prisoner details

Sensitive prisoner information including full names, an image, birth dates and details of children was mistakenly sent to the wrong email distribution list this week.

ABC News

Wife killer Joe O'Reilly constant 'disruptive' behaviour forces move from Dublin prison

Tragic Rachel Callaly was brutally beaten to death by O’Reilly in their home in Naul, Dublin, on October 4, 2004

Dublin Live

‘The Russians wanted to break me’: Texas native Trevor Reed on his time in prison

WASHINGTON — “Hang in there, take one day at a time. Just remember that there’s people here who are fighting for you and that care about you, and that they’re not going to stop fighting until (you) all come home.”

Tribune News Service

Female Saudi activist gets 34 years in prison for using Twitter

The case against Salma al-Shehab marks the country's longest sentence against an activist.

Axios

Exhibition documents decline of Cornwall’s Launceston castle

New exhibition tells the story of a Cornish castles’ decay from a seat of aristocratic power to squalid prison for local rebels

The Guardian - UK

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Wales Online

Public warned not to approach man with links to south Wales who absconded from prison

The public are being warned not to approach Jon Marc Stephens if they see him but to call 999 immediately

The Independent UK

Parole granted to last 1976 California school bus hijacker2

The last of three men convicted of hijacking a school bus full of California children for an attempted $5 million ransom in 1976 is being released by the state’s parole board

Bristol Post

Police warn to not approach wanted man who failed to return to prison

Call 999 if you see this man

ABC News

Uluru mass murderer Douglas Crabbe's parole hearing delayed as more information sought

Douglas Crabbe, who killed five people when he rammed his road train into the Inland Motel near Uluru in 1983, will stay behind bars for now, as authorities defer his parole hearing.

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Glasgow Live

Death of Paisley woman, 27, at HMP Cornton Vale sparks prison probe

Elizabeth Holmes, 27, passed away at the prison on Sunday, August 14. The Scottish Prison Service said she had been remanded at Paisley Sheriff Court in 2022.

The Independent UK

Saudi student home on holiday jailed for 34 years for using Twitter

Mother-of-two Salma al-Shehab also given 34-year travel ban

Irish Mirror

Wife killer Joe O'Reilly moved from Wheatfield to the Midlands prison after 'falling out' with other prisoners

The infamous killer, who is serving a life sentence for the killing of his wife at their home in Naul in October 2004, is now housed in the same prison as sex-crazed monster Graham Dwyer.

The Canberra Times

Former gang leader pleads guilty over jail's first hostage situation

The former Brothers 4 Life chapter leader is said to have threatened to cut the throat of a fellow Canberra prisoner.

AAP

Imprisonment numbers triple for Qld women

The number of Queensland women being jailed as part of their court punishment has tripled and there are concerning trends amongst Indigenous women and girls.

The Independent UK

Ex-cop Lane will report to Colorado prison in Floyd killing

Former Minneapolis police officer Thomas Lane, who was sentenced to 2 1/2 years for violating George Floyd’s civil rights, has been ordered to report to a low-security federal prison camp in Colorado in two weeks

The Guardian - UK

Saudi woman given 34-year prison sentence for using Twitter

Salma al-Shehab, a Leeds University student, was charged with following and retweeting dissidents and activists

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