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Inside student's £1,600-a-month 'prison' flat with broken heating, cockroaches and vomit

Alicia Sowerby, from York, described her accommodation as 'horrendous' and 'like a prison' despite paying hefty rent fees every month

Daily Mirror

Millionaire facing death penalty after killing wife with shotgun on safari trip

Lawrence 'Larry' Rudolph, 67 - convicted of killing his wife of 34 years Bianca Rudolf - faces the death penalty or life in prison after Monday's verdict.

Daily Record

‘Black widow killer’ who murdered husband with poisoned curry freed from prison

Police said Dena Thompson targeted men ‘sexually, financially and physically for a decade’

The Independent UK

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Russia designates Ukraine’s Azov Regiment a ‘terrorist’ group

The Supreme Court ruling allows for lengthy prison terms for the members of the battalion.

Al Jazeera

479 Irish citizens arrested abroad over the last three years according to official records

The Department of Foreign Affairs said not every Irish person who was arrested or imprisoned sought their assistance and there could be cases of which they were not made aware

Irish Mirror

People urged not to approach man with ‘Rylan’ tattoo who absconded from prison

Lewis Peters is currently serving a 12-year sentence for conspiracy to supply Class A drugs, but has been missing from HMP Hatfield prison since July 28

Daily Mirror

Whistleblowers and the road to tyranny

Daniel Hale is in a supermax prison for telling the truth about America's drone war. That prison awaits us all

Salon

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Inspection reports reflect the desperation and danger youths face in Texas juvenile prisons

Visits to Texas’ severely understaffed youth prisons show suicide attempts without intervention, water bottles being used as makeshift toilets, and a rash of possibly gang-related fights.

The Texas Tribune

Almost 600 Texas youths are trapped in a juvenile prison system on the brink of collapse

The agency is so understaffed that teens have reported spending up to 23 hours locked in their cells, using water bottles to go to the bathroom. A staggering number have hurt themselves or been placed on suicide watch.

The Texas Tribune

Griner's Russian trial should be over 'very soon', lawyer says

The Russian drugs trial of U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner should be over "very soon", her lawyer said on Tuesday, as the Kremlin warned the United States that megaphone diplomacy would not secure a prisoner swap for the 31-year-old Texan.

Reuters

Daughter of jailed Capitol rioter says Trump ‘deserves life in prison’

‘Trump deserves life in prison if my father is in prison for this long’

The Independent UK

Mountjoy prison thug 'danced' on body of injured inmate in horrific attack

Robert O’Connor remained in critical condition at Dublin’s Mater Hospital last night after he suffered severe injuries including a bleed on his brain

Dublin Live

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Russia wants 2 prisoners in swap for Americans Brittney Griner, Paul Whelan

Tribune News Service

As Russia and Ukraine trade blame for prisoner-of-war deaths, what becomes of the Geneva Convention?

The deaths of more than 50 Ukrainian prisoners of war last week is not only an apparent war crime, but also another sign the situation is becoming a race to the bottom when it comes to international law and conventions.

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Chicago Sun-Times

Pritzker should consider granting clemency for prisoner hoping to get Ph.D.

If any prisoner has a solid argument for being released, it seems to us, it’s Johnny Pippins, who earned undergraduate and master’s degrees while behind bars and has expressed remorse for the murder he committed.

The Guardian - UK

Charities warn against ministers getting powers to stop early release from jail

Measure would stop prisoners from being let out automatically part-way through sentences if deemed a threat to public

Daily Mirror

Coronation Street's Ryan Connor set for exit as he faces prison after fake robbery

Hapless bartender Ryan, played by Ryan Prescott, had hoped to turn his fortune around by participating in an insurance scam with Debbie Webster on Corrie

Mic

Rapper Mystikal has been arrested and charged with rape

The New Orleans rapper, who previously served a six-year prison sentence for sexual assault, allegedly assaulted a woman at his Louisiana home.

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The Guardian - US

US Capitol attack: militia member gets longest prison sentence yet

Man with ties to Three Percenters, who said he planned to violently drag Pelosi from building, sentenced to seven years

The Independent UK

Dutch mom gets 3 years in US for supporting Somali militants

A Dutch woman has been sentenced to three years in prison for donating several hundred dollars to a group that supported the militant group al-Shabab in Somalia

The Independent UK

Inmate kills guard at Oklahoma private prison, officials say

The correction officer died from injuries sustained during an unprovoked attack by an inmate at the Davis Correctional Facility in Holdenville, Oklahoma

The Independent UK

Viktor Bout: Lawyer for convicted Russian arms dealer ‘confident’ of US prisoner swap with Brittney Griner

Notorious ‘Merchant of Death’ serving 25 years in US prison

The Texas Tribune

Texan who prosecutors say “lit the match” of Jan. 6 riot sentenced to more than 7 years in prison

Guy Reffitt, a 49-year-old Wylie resident, never entered the Capitol but helped ignite the crowd “into an unstoppable force,” a prosecutor at his trial said. His sentence is the longest given out so far from the Jan. 6 riot.

Daily Mirror

Mum faces 100 lashes after protesting against death of demonstrator son

Iranian mum Mahboubeh Ramezani, mother of 18-year-old Pejman Gholipour, is being held in the infamous Evin prison in Tehran and has been sentenced by the Iranian regime

The Independent UK

Man who stormed Capitol with gun gets 87 months in prison

A Texas man convicted of storming the U.S. Capitol with a holstered handgun helmet and body armor was sentenced on Monday to 87 months — more than seven years — in prison

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