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Commentary: Forced prison labor continues to enslave Black Americans

As Juneteenth celebrations and paraphernalia begin to litter our social timelines, we must remember that slavery has yet to be truly abolished. To this day, in prisons and jails across the country, government agencies and corporations legally exploit forced prison labor thanks to an exception baked into the 13th Amendment…

Chicago Tribune

Cambodian court convicts a U.S. lawyer and dozens of others of treason

Cambodian American rights activist Theary Seng and most of the other defendants had been charged over a failed attempt by the leader of an opposition party to return from exile in 2019.

WEKU

Canadian Who Drove Van into Toronto Crowds Given Life Sentence

A Canadian man who in 2018 rammed his rental van into a crowd of pedestrians in downtown Toronto, killing 11 people, was sentenced Monday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for 25 years. Alek Minassian, who was 25 at the time of the attack, was found guilty…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Cambodian court set to rule in treason trial of dissidents

A Cambodian court is set to render a verdict in the trial of a Cambodian American lawyer and dozens of members of a now-dissolved opposition party on charges of treason

The Independent UK

‘How to Murder Your Husband’ author gets life in prison in spouse death

A self-published romance novelist who once wrote an online essay called “How to Murder Your Husband” has been sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole for murdering her husband at his workplace in Portland in 2018

The Independent UK

Toronto van attacker sentenced to life in prison

A man who plowed a rented van into dozens of people on a busy Toronto street in 2018, killing 11, was sentenced to life in prison on Monday.

Reuters

Life for 'How to Murder Your Husband' author in spouse death

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Drug boss wanted ambulance to help transport cocaine during lockdown

Martin Grant began using the EncroChat network days after he was released from prison

Liverpool Echo

Suzy Lamplugh's disappearance and family's last hope as suspect is on death bed

Suzy Lamplugh disappeared in 1986 and her remains have never been found, and while the police named a prime suspect he always protested his innocence and is now terminally ill

Daily Mirror

The Callisto Protocol interview – ‘It’s deeper than what we did on Dead Space’

We chat to Glen Schofield, one of the minds behind The Callisto Protocol.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Spiderhead review – Netflix’s prison-experiment fable is going nowhere

Tale of lab-rat detainees testing psychoactive drugs, presided over by a creepy Chris Hemsworth, rather loses its way

The Guardian - UK

Dundee drug gang member caught with illegal phone card in prison cell

George Black, 34, was part of a ‘well established’ drugs gang which flooded the city with heroin and cocaine.

Daily Record

Lorry driver who killed Scots mum in horror smash fails to overturn prison sentence

Ian Moorhouse was sentenced to one year imprisonment after the fatal crash in February 2020

Daily Record

Violent Scots prisoner who slashed inmate from mouth to ear caught with another homemade weapon

Fergus Muldoon appeared at court and had another four months added to his four year sentence

Daily Record

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Diet revision to Penal Code creates 'confinement' sentence

A bill to revise the Penal Code passed the Diet on Monday, introducing the first change to the law's sentencing categories since it was established in 1907.

Chronicle Live

Police launch search for Sunderland man Christopher Ball wanted on recall to prison

Christopher Lee Ball is wanted on prison recall and is believed to be actively evading police with officers searching for him

Daily Mirror

Two inmates escape from Leyhill Prison as police issue urgent warning about lags on run

Shawn Dibble, 44, who is serving a life sentence, and 37-year-old Carl Perry, who is in prison for robberies, escaped from the open jail in Gloucestershire on Sunday evening

Chronicle Live

The grim story of life inside Newcastle's former brutal city centre prison

A new exhibition recalls the life and times of the gaol in Newcastle's Carliol Square which was in operation between 1828 and 1925

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Bristol Post

Two robbers on the run from Leyhill prison near Bristol

They both have a record of robbery

Wales Online

Two prisoners on the run after escaping prison on Sunday evening

They both have a record of robbery

Liverpool Echo

Faces of 11 people jailed this week

An overview of the court cases heard in our region over the last week

The Independent UK

Two inmates on the run after escaping Leyhill Prison in Gloucestershire

The pair are both serving sentences for robbery.

Daily Mirror

Main suspect in Suzy Lamplugh murder on deathbed as family plead 'tell us what you did'

Suzy's desperate family want John Cannan, 68, to tell them what really happened to estate agent as he receives end-of- life palliative care in prison

Miami Herald

A handyman, wives, Escalades, ghost pharmacies: A $9 million Miami drug coupon fraud

MIAMI — Two Kendall men spent seven years — not even pausing during the two years one of them was in prison — raking in $9 million in a scam involving coupons meant to help people pay for prescription drugs. They used friends, wives of friends, shell companies and pharmacies…

The New Daily

The companies profiting from prison labour authorities don’t want you to know about

Major companies like Qantas and Bunnings Warehouse have been involved in employing prison inmates for less than workers typically make outside.

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