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Iranian Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi ‘violently detained’ at memorial for dead human rights lawyer

A foundation in her name said she was detained at a memorial for a human rights lawyer recently found dead under disputed circumstances

The Independent UK

American grandmother arrested in the Bahamas after ‘accidentally’ bringing gun and ammo on cruise

Mary Robinson, 69, could have been imprisoned at the Bahamas for two years after she was found carrying a gun in her purse

The Independent UK

Crypto king Do Kwon jailed for 15 years over $40bn stablecoin fraud

The co-founder of cryptocurrency firm Terraform Labs was sentenced to 15 years in prison after a US court found that his $40bn stablecoin ecosystem was sustained by fraud.

Euronews

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Trans stalker tells judge 'I'm a female' in demand for switch to women's prison

Vivienne Taylor, 28, is currently in custody awaiting sentence for the pursuit of Tina Rashid

Evening Standard

Half of people arrested in London could have undiagnosed ADHD, study finds

Neurodivergent individuals – particularly autistic people and those with ADHD – are overrepresented within prison populations, according to research

The Independent UK

Crypto mogul Do Kwon sentenced to 15 years in prison for fraud

Co-founder of Singapore-based Terraform Labs given more jail time by US judge than prosecutors sought

The Guardian - UK

Brickbat: Killer Cop

Former Memphis, Tennessee, police officer Patric J. Ferguson has been sentenced to 38 years in federal prison after admitting to… The post Brickbat: Killer Cop appeared first on Reason.com.

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OPINION - Like Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, I was falsely imprisoned and tortured in jail in Iran: this is my story

Kylie Moore-Gilbert shares her harrowing experience of being held in captivity in Iran

Evening Standard

Australia 'stained' by its treatment of child offenders

Australia has been slammed for its juvenile justice laws as UN experts sound the alarm over the growing number of people in prison without a sentence.

AAP

Tina Peters' Pardon Explained After Trump Announcement: What Did She Do and Why It Doesn't Free Her

Tina Peters stays in state prison despite Trump's pardon claim. Learn what she was convicted of and why federal pardons cannot overturn Colorado charges.

International Business Times UK

'Be careful': warning as ex-Marist brother jailed

A former Marist brother who molested a teen pupil in a school office 40 years ago has been told not to mention anything about his crimes if asked in prison.

AAP

Union ends statewide prison lockdown, court closures

Strike action that closed most of Adelaide's courtrooms and forced public prisons into a 96-hour lockdown has ended, as a union "considers options".

AAP

Trump says he's pardoned Tina Peters, but that may not save her from prison

Trump has no jurisdiction over state-level cases to offer the pardon.

Axios

Why whole-life imprisonment is rising in England and Wales

In England and Wales, whole-life imprisonment is the harshest sanction available to the courts, emerging in the decades after the abolition of the death penalty. The whole-life order requires people to spend their whole lives in prison with no prospect of release, except on exceptional compassionate grounds.

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Helldivers 2 High Command gets passive aggressive over how much we suck on magma planets, but don't worry, at least the Killzone collab is returning

"Millions of legally-mandated volunteers" are being taken from prison to make up for divers' shortcomings

Evening Standard

OPINION - Don't mock... Nicolas Sarkozy's prison conversion may be for real

In his Prison Diary, the former president says he fell to his knees and prayed on his first night in La Santé

Euronews

Fugitive in Italy arrested after hiding in nativity scene as fake statue

A 38-year-old was arrested in southern Italy on Saturday after the town's mayor spotted him posing as a statue in a Christmas nativity scene. The man was wanted for assaulting a police officer and had escaped a prison sentence in Bologna.

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How to Get All Endings in Dig to Escape

Dig to Escape is a prison escape experience on Roblox where players have to dig a hole to escape from prison. But there are other ways to escape the

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The Guardian - US

‘Human trafficking behind prison walls’: women jailed in Texas allege rampant sexual abuse

Women at FMC Carswell – long a focus of sexual abuse investigations – say prison officials have turned a blind eye

The Guardian - UK

‘She was very, very thin’: witness tells of Ukrainian journalist’s final days in Russian prison

Soldier’s account corroborates reports Viktoriia Roshchyna was taken to prison deep inside Russia, where it is believed she died

The Independent UK

‘The only way out for me is in a body bag’: The desperate final days of IPP prisoner Taylor Atkinson

JAILED WITHOUT HOPE: FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE: Exclusive: After serving 13 years on a ‘hopeless, desperate, barbaric’ indefinite jail term, Taylor Atkinson ended his own life. This week an inquest concluded that his IPP sentence was likely the most significant reason for his death, Amy-Clare Martin reports

The Conversation

‘Tough on crime’ policies are causing Indigenous people to die in custody

When a First Nations person dies in custody, it sends shockwaves through families and communities. The trauma of losing a loved one adds to a sense of despair that First Nations lives are expendable, that no one is held to account, and that nothing changes.

AAP

Vote looms as strike closes courts, locks down prisons

A strike that has shut a state's courts and forced prisons into lockdown remains unresolved, with union members expected to vote on possible further action.

The Independent UK

Prison officials tell judge ex-Abercrombie & Fitch CEO is competent to stand trial

Federal prison officials say the former CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch is fit to stand trial on federal sex trafficking charges

Pedestrian.tv

RHOSLC’s Jen Shah Released From Prison After Multiple Sentence Reductions

Jen Shah, guilty of committing wire fraud.... and being Shah-mazing, served just 33 months of her six-and-a-half year sentence.

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