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John Grisham: ‘There are tens of thousands of innocent people in prison and you don’t believe it because you’re white’

The author and lawyer said during a speech at the Santa Fe Literary Festival that ‘white people love the death penalty’ but ‘Black people know the truth’ about criminal justice in the US

The Independent UK

Ex-ICU nurse convicted over accidental injection death of patient shares ‘heart-wrenching’ regret

RaDonda Vaught was spared prison sentence and handed three years probation by Tennessee judge

The Independent UK

Prisoner goes on the run - then phones his local paper to say 'jail's driving me insane'

But fugitive Greggor Grey, 42, has vowed to hand himself in

Manchester Evening News

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Fugitive North Macedonian ex-premier gets 9-year sentence

North Macedonia’s fugitive former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski has been handed a 9-year prison sentence for illegally ordering the 2011 demolition a multimillion-dollar complex owned by a former political ally turned opponent

The Independent UK

Casey White ordered to provide DNA sample for probe of prison escape that ended with jailhouse lover’s death

Lauderdale County District Attorney Chris Connolly previously said that further charges could be brought against the inmate over the dramatic prison break

The Independent UK

Inside world's biggest death row where most notorious criminals are executed

Serial killers, rapists and infamous criminals have been housed at San Quentin prison, including Charles Manson, but now the correctional facility is set to be closed down

Daily Mirror

Officials of the 27th batch graduate from prison academy in Vellore

The 35-member group underwent nine months of training

The Hindu

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Prisoner ESCAPES and rings paper to say 'jail's driving me insane' after 17 years inside

Greggor Grey, 42, from Birmingham, escaped from the prison he was being held in and rang up his local paper to complain about his time behind bars

Daily Mirror

Search for Texas inmate expands as land, air operations end

Authorities say the search by ground and air in the Texas county where a convicted murderer escaped from a prison transport bus and stabbed the driver last week has concluded as the hunt for him expands

The Independent UK

Man gets 24 years in prison for fire that killed endangered California Condors

Multiple vultures killed in in coastal blaze three times the size of Washington, DC

The Independent UK

Female offenders suffering with addiction and trauma to be treated at new Swansea residential centre

It will be an alternative to prison for many and will aim to tackle the factors behind their offending

Wales Online

Ecuador tribunal orders former vice president back to prison

An Ecuadorean tribunal on Friday ordered former vice-president Jorge Glas, who served four-and-a-half years in prison on a bribery conviction, to immediately return to jail, annulling a decision that freed him last month.

Reuters

It’s a wonder I’m alive: Azam Khan after walking out of prison

RAMPUR/LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan stepped out of the Sitapur jail on Friday after spending over 26 months in judicial custody, a day after the Supreme Court granted him interim bail in a cheating case. Later, after reaching home in Rampur, as thousands of supporters gathered outside his house…

The Times of India

Man sentenced to 24 years for setting Big Sur wildfire that killed 12 endangered condors

LOS ANGELES — A man who was convicted of setting a wildfire in Big Sur that burned 125,000 acres, seriously injured a firefighter and killed 12 endangered California condors was sentenced this week to 24 years in state prison.

Los Angeles Times

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Fyre Festival creator has put together team to ‘come up with ideas’ for new entertainment ventures after early prison release

NEW YORK — Billy McFarland is all fyred up.

The Hindu

Jailed tennis star Boris Becker annoyed by 'fictitious' coverage: lawyer

Top-selling daily Bild claim there have been several emergency calls from Becker's cell in London's Wandsworth prison as he complained about suffering from claustrophobia and the food served

The Hindu

Justice Veerappa pays surprise visit to Dharwad Central Prison

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Ukrainian fighter's wife hopes prisoner swap pans out with Russia

As Ukrainian fighters left the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol this week and ended their dramatic last stand against Russia's siege, Mariia Zimareva tried in vain to spot her husband amid the flood of news pictures being published.

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Former Marine Trevor Reed on Russian imprisonment: "I wouldn't let myself hope"

"The psychiatric treatment facility, I was in there with seven other prisoners in a cell," Reed said.

The Independent UK

Bill pushes feds to notify families of sick, dying inmates

New legislation in the Senate requires the Justice Department to establish guidelines for the federal Bureau of Prisons and state correctional systems to notify the families of inmates if their loved one has a serious illness, a life-threatening injury or if they die behind bars

Daily Mirror

Inside violent prison where husband killer of Brit mum Caroline Crouch is held

Helicopter pilot Babis Anagnostopoulos, 34, was jailed for life on Monday for murdering his British wife Caroline Crouch, 20, for hanging her rescue puppy Roxy from the bannisters of their Athens maisonette

The Guardian - US

Facing Life: the project showing the cracks in California’s incarceration system

A documentary follows the paths of eight people who served decades of their life sentences behind bars, only to be released with no resources

Daily Mirror

Russian soldier who killed innocent grandad smirks when told of possible prisoner swap

Russian Sergeant Vadim Shishimarin, 21, shot Ukrainian civilian Oleksandr Shelypov, 62, dead with an AK-47 as he pushed his bicycle home in Chupakhivk, just days into the invasion in February

The Hindu

SP leader Azam Khan released from prison

Supreme Court on Thursday used its powers under Article 142 to grant Azam Khan interim bail

The Independent UK

Children carrying weapons at most violent prison in England, inspectors warn

A report says there were 105 assaults among children and 82 on staff in just six months.

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