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Killer who ‘dealt with man’s murder like a PlayStation game’ is released from jail

Luke Anderson is a free man after the parole board released him earlier this year but his fellow killer Daniel Sellers is still behind bars.

Daily Record

Prisoners to be released mid-week instead of Friday to lower reoffending

Prisoners will have more time to find a bed and GP before many services close for the weekend, the government says

Evening Standard

Drugs fugitive 'on the run' now finally behind bars after arrest abroad

Craig Costello is now behind bars with John ‘Winky’ Watson and Steven Beazley after he was found guilty of conspiracy to supply class A drugs by a jury last year.

Daily Record

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Alexei Navalny missing: Vladimir Putin critic vanishes from prison colony in Russia

The high-profile Russian opposition leader did not show up for a meeting with his lawyers today at the Pokrov penal colony and his whereabouts is now unknown

Daily Mirror

Alexei Navalny’s whereabouts unknown after reported removal from prison

Putin’s arch-critic was serving a long jail sentence in a prison camp east of Moscow

The Independent UK

Jailed Kremlin critic Navalny transferred to unknown location

Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has been transferred out of his prison colony and moved to an unknown location, a top aide said on Tuesday.

Reuters

Defence lawyers launch last, crucial phase of November 2015 terror trial

After ten days of heart-rending reminders of horror from the legal teams representing the victims, followed by last week's demands for punishment from the prosecution, on Monday the Paris attacks trial moved into a different emotional realm with the first of the closing statements from those defending the 14 accused.

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Strangeways lockdown ends after 'intelligence-led operation' sees prisoners confined to cells for days

A lockdown was imposed at the jail for a number of days last week due to a 'crack down on illegal contraband'

Manchester Evening News

Young West Lothian prisoner attacked party guest who put 'substance' under his nose

Owen Phillips claimed he later saw the same person smoking heroin off an identical piece of tin foil in the bathroom of the house, a court heard.

Edinburgh Live

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

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

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Reuters

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.

The Independent UK

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

Liverpool Echo

Drug boss wanted ambulance to help transport cocaine during lockdown

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

Daily Mirror

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

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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.

The Guardian - UK

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

Daily Record

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

The Japan News/Yomiuri

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

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