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Two men plead guilty to stealing over £71,000 worth of Pokémon TCG in a string of burglaries targeting small card stores

One man has been sentenced to 29 months in prison.

PC Gamer

Ruth Ellis pardoned: Last woman to be executed in UK has death sentence for murdering partner commuted

Ruth Ellis was hanged at London’s Holloway Prison on July 13, 1955, after being convicted of murdering her lover David Blakley

Evening Standard

Bengaluru MBA graduate arrested after a cigarette purchase: Shopkeeper spots fake Rs 500 note after returning change; man recently freed in fake note case

A fake Rs 500 note used to buy a packet of cigarettes from a grocery shop in Tumakuru led police to an alleged counterfeit currency printing unit on Bengaluru's outskirts. The main accused, an MBA graduate previously arrested in a fake currency case, was allegedly running the operation after recently…

The Economic Times

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Mackenzie Shirilla Appears In New Prison Photo Following Legal Setback

A chilling new prison selfie has put Mackenzie Shirilla back in the spotlight, weeks after reports claimed she prances around with makeup and hickeys in jail.

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Lack of safeguards over prisoners’ early release puts abuse victims at risk, Lammy warned

Exclusive: victims commissioner and domestic abuse commissioner call for pause on planned releases

The Guardian - UK

Private prison giant gets $1.5 billion from DHS, keeps running ICE centers

The deal, which closed July 2, is expected to generate about $1.1 billion in net proceeds for the Tennessee-based company

The Independent UK

Extradite political dissidents for repatriating child rapist: Pakistan's demand shocks UK

Shabir Ahmed, 73, was released from prison last week after serving 14 years of a 22-year sentence for 30 child rape offences. Known as "Daddy" to his victims, he preyed on vulnerable girls as young as 12, supplying them with alcohol and drugs before subjecting them to repeated sexual abuse…

The Times of India

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'Revolving door': Rehab at packed jails questioned

A state government is under fire after a damning report found nearly half of its prisoners released from custody return to jail within two years.

AAP

Nigel Farage Wants Pakistani Grooming Gang Ringleader Deported and Threatens Visa Ban if Pakistan Refuses

Nigel Farage calls for Shabir Ahmed's deportation and threatens visa restrictions on Pakistan after the Rochdale grooming gang ringleader's release from prison.

International Business Times UK

2018 murder of newborn in California: Bakshinderpal Sing Mann, father who buried baby and then fled to Canada, finally sentenced

A disturbing case that started with an unlawful sexual relationship, which resulted in the woman becoming pregnant and giving birth to a baby who was immediately killed and buried, came to an end last month in California after 31-year-old Bakshinderpal Singh Mann was sentenced to six years in prison with…

The Times of India

The Guardian view on prisons: the public deserves better than this litany of failure

Editorial: Drugs and violence continue at disturbing levels. But a minority of jails show that progress is possible

The Guardian - UK

What to know about the electronic monitor Marine Le Pen must wear

A Paris appeals court on Tuesday declared far-right leader Marine Le Pen guilty of embezzlement and ruled that she must wear an electronic ankle monitor even if she decides to run for the presidency. In France, electronic home detention prohibits a person from leaving their home, or another designated location,…

France 24

Europe, A.C., and the Housing Exception to America's Economic Success Story

Plus: L.A. criminally charges contractors offering to build an ADU in the Palisades, South Carolina streamlines squatter removal, and a Florida city uses eminent domain to thwart state housing law.

Reason

Two jailed in Kinnaree lamppost scandal

A former subdistrict chief and another defendant have been sentenced to five years in prison for irregularities in the procurement of overpriced Kinnaree lampposts in Samut Prakan.

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Latin Times

Milwaukee Ex-Judge Dugan Awaits Sentencing After a Yearlong Fight to Overturn Her ICE Obstruction Verdict

Ex-judge Hannah Dugan faces sentencing July 8 for helping a migrant dodge ICE. Prosecutors want prison; her lawyers say she's paid enough.

Latin Times

'El Mayo' Zambada Asks to Avoid El Chapo's Supermax and Serve His Life Sentence in a Prison Hospital

Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, the co-founder of Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel, has told a U.S. federal court he won't fight the life sentence he is about to receive, but he would rather not spend his final years in the same "supermax" prison that holds his old partner, Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán.

Reason

The Man Who Invented Online Sports Betting—and Went to Prison for It

The father of the World Sports Exchange tells his story.

The Independent UK

Death toll in Sri Lanka's prison clash rises to 26, with another 77 in hospital

The death toll in Sri Lanka’s prison clash has risen to 26, including seven prison officials and 19 inmates

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The Independent UK

A leading Gaza doctor may die soon in an Israeli prison - his targeting has been deliberate

COMMENT: Dr Hussam Abu Safiya’s case is not isolated. If you target doctors, nurses, paramedics, hospitals and clinics - all protected under international law - you deal a double blow to the entire civilian population, writes chief international correspondent Bel Trew

The Independent UK

‘I accept responsibility’: Sri Lankan minister says situation under control after nation’s deadliest prison riot kills 26

Families of inmates protested as they sought updates on relatives caught in the deadly riot

The Guardian - UK

Prison education cuts driving drug use, self-harm and violence, says watchdog

Report by HM inspector of prisons for England and Wales comes as spending on frontline education falls by up to 50%

The Independent UK

Kemi Badenoch to force vote on exemption of sex offenders from early prison release scheme

Under the Sentencing Act 2026, some offenders will be released early from prison from September in an effort to relieve overcrowding

International Business Times UK

Man Who Threatened to Assassinate Trump Faces 5 Years in Prison. So Why Does He Face Double the Time for Threatening ICE?

Cody Lee Smith, 20, faces a longer sentence for threatening ICE agents than for threatening Trump, highlighting the statutory differences in federal law regarding threats against public officials.

France 24

Frenchman convicted in missing body case confesses to killing his wife, lawyer says

Cédric Jubillar, a painter and plasterer who was sentenced last October for killing his wife Delphine, has finally confessed to the murder from his prison cell, his lawyer said Monday. The 38-year-old said he was ready to tell investigators the location of his wife's body, which was never found.

Texas Observer

Throwing the Book at Books in Prison

Inside Books Project volunteers have sent used books to Texas inmates for nearly 30 years. A new crackdown is threatening their work.

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