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Former politician accused of burning ex-police officer husband to death

The 66-year-old allegedly told a dispatcher she believed her husband had died after ‘starting a fire and burning himself’

The Independent UK

Vladimir Putin critic shares grim punishments from inside maximum-security prison

Alexei Navalny - Vladimir Putin's strongest political opponent - was jailed by the Kremlin at the start of 2021 upon returning to Russia after being poisoned with the novichok nerve agent while visiting Siberia in 2020

Daily Mirror

West Lothian prisoner slashed fellow inmate with 'mystery weapon' in lunch queue

Daniel Wallace struck first as Robert McCann waited in the lunch queue at a ground floor café in the Forth Alpha Wing at Addiewell Prison, West Lothian.

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Suburban Chicago man running for Congress was convicted 27 years ago of sexually assaulting a woman

A Lemont, Illinois, man running to be the Republican nominee in the heavily Democratic 1st Congressional District spent nearly six years in prison after being convicted 27 years ago of sexually assaulting a woman following the South Side Irish Parade, records show.

Chicago Tribune

Man bit, kicked, hit and spat at police 'who got between him and his drugs'

Sending 33-year-old Ricky Schultz to prison, a judge said the town of Llanelli was "rife" with drugs

Wales Online

British mother prepares to wed US pen pal she’s never met— because he’s in jail for brutal murder

Bristol single mum-of-four Laura O’Sullivan, 32, will marry Terrell Ravon Reese, 31, next year in a Michigan jail 3,560 miles away

The Independent UK

The Big Hit review – feelgood prison comedy as convicts do Beckett

A curmudgeonly actor helps prisoners put on a production of Waiting for Godot in Emmanuel Courcol’s predictable drama

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Former state Sen. Thomas Cullerton sentenced to one year in prison in federal embezzlement case

Prosecutors had asked the judge to give Cullerton up to 18 months in prison. The former senator’s defense attorney asked for probation and community service.

Chicago Sun-Times

Environmental health officials are called to Forest Bank prison as it is 'infested with rats'

One former inmate says fellow lags were given free Dominos pizza to clean the kitchen while other prisoners made 'rodent excluders' from socks and loo roll to keep unwelcome visitors at bay

Manchester Evening News

Mum-of-four set to marry man she's never met - because he's in jail in the US for murder

Laura O’Sullivan, 32, from Bristol, has known Terrell Ravon Reese, 31, since October 1 2021, when she used an app for prisoners to find a pen pal - leading to a whirlwind romance.

Daily Mirror

British mum Laura O’Sullivan to marry Terrell Ravon Reese who's in jail in USA for murder

They are planning their wedding for next year

Wales Online

How Clean Break puts the plight of women in the criminal justice system on stage - ‘There’s so much damage’

For four decades, the theatre company has kept the subject of women in prison on the cultural radar, with its new play tackling addiction and the criminal justice system in a working-class Pakistani family

Evening Standard

A Likely Lad by Peter Doherty – an appetite for self-destruction

Squalor, Kate Moss, prison, class A drugs… the indie frontman and tabloid fixture’s memoir is lucid, candid and, ultimately, hopeful

The Guardian - UK

Mum who slashed woman's face on cocaine-fuelled night out goes on the run from prison

Police are appealing for help to find Zowie Kaylie Haygarth

Manchester Evening News

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Prisoner brandished homemade ‘knife’ in cell… whilst serving a sentence for attacking prison officers

Gary Brooks, 30, was already serving a 54 month jail term for attacking emergency workers

Asharq Al-Awsat

UN: Myanmar Executions Could Be War Crimes

The Myanmar junta's plans to execute political opponents may amount to war crimes or crimes against humanity, a UN official said Monday. The junta said on June 3 it would execute a former lawmaker from Aung San Suu Kyi's party and a prominent democracy activist, both convicted of terrorism, in…

The Guardian - UK

Thousands in England and Wales locked out of jobs because of mistakes in youth, campaigners say

Exclusive: more than a third of childhood offences on DBS certificates happened over 40 years ago

Daily Record

Murderer brutally beat up female prison guard as she screamed desperately for help

James Demarco, a convicted killer, carried out the attack in Addiwell prison, West Lothian.

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Prison for protester who attacked police

Dennis Basic has been jailed for two years and two months for assaulting officers and hitting a police horse during violent anti-lockdown protests in Melbourne.

The Independent UK

US marshals release sketches of three men who escaped from Alcatraz in the 1960s and could still be at large

Frank Morris, as well as brothers Clarence and John Anglin, escaped from the famed, now-defunct island prison in San Francisco Bay, on 11 June, 1962

ABC News

Banksia Hill inmates trash about 100 of juvenile detention centre's cells, leaving them unusable

About 100 cells at Banksia Hill Juvenile Detention Centre have been deemed unusable after being damaged by inmates, but justice advocates say troubled youths are under too much pressure at the facility.

The Independent UK

Man who coordinated Honduras activist's murder sentenced

The man convicted last year of coordinating the killing of Honduran environmental activist Berta Cáceres has been sentenced to more than 22 years in prison

The Independent UK

Why these prosecutors are refusing to enforce criminal anti-abortion laws in their states

‘Trigger’ bans in more than a dozen states will quickly or immediately outlaw abortion without Roe v Wade protections. It will be up to the discretion of district attorneys and law enforcement whether providers will be criminally charged, Alex Woodward reports

Liverpool Echo

Cocaine fuelled mum who slashed woman's face on the run

Zowie Haygarth, 37, is wanted by Merseyside Police

ABC News

The 'drug grannies' thought they were on the trip of a lifetime. They couldn't have been more mistaken

In 1977, two American retirees set out on a campervan trip. When the women tried to go home, they were threatened with violence, and a three-month holiday turned into a 14-year prison sentence.

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