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'Pharma Bro' Shkreli freed from prison for halfway house

Convicted pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli has been freed from prison after serving much of a seven-year prison sentence for lying to hedge fund investors and cheating investors in a drug company

The Independent UK

Woman serving life in California prison led $2 million unemployment fraud scheme, prosecutors say

LOS ANGELES — Federal authorities charged 13 people and arrested five in connection with a California unemployment insurance benefits scheme they believe netted at least $2 million under the direction of a state prison inmate.

Los Angeles Times

Man who punched hole in ex-girlfriend's bedroom door with scissors after breaking into her home jailed for a year

Sarah McGavigan was asleep in bed when her ex Andrew Laird broke into her home in the village of Convoy in Donegal in the early hours of June 16, 2019

Irish Mirror

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‘Pharma bro’ Martin Shkreli released from prison early to complete sentence in halfway house

Convicted executive had been due for release in September

The Independent UK

Wisconsin man gets 10 years in prison for racist acid attack

A judge has sentenced a white Milwaukee man to a decade in prison for throwing acid in a Latino man's face in a 2019 racist attack

The Independent UK

Assaults on staff by inmates in Irish prisons rose by 30% in 2021

The most number of assaults in an individual prison were 15 – recorded in both Mountjoy and Limerick

Irish Mirror

Man sentenced to 8 years on federal charge after commutation

A man who was charged by federal prosecutors with producing child pornography after former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin issued a commutation for state sex crime convictions has been sentenced to eight years in prison

The Independent UK

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In a war crimes trial, a Russian soldier pleads guilty to killing a Ukrainian civilian

Sgt. Vadim Shishimarin, 21, is facing the first war crimes trial since Russia invaded Ukraine. The Russian soldier could get life in prison for shooting a 62-year-old unarmed civilian in the head.

WEKU

Buffalo-area prison officer suspended over meme mocking shooting

Authorities have described attack as act of racial hatred meant to kill Black people

The Independent UK

Vladimir Putin uses political prisoners to get even with West, claims Telegram account

In April two British soldiers were told they would face show trials unless Boris Johnson swapped them for one of Putin's long-time cronies, Viktor Medvechuk - who was arrested in Ukraine earlier the same month

Daily Mirror

Men threw Ribena bottles containing drugs and mobile phones over prison wall

Mark Baldwin, 39, and Liam McCabe, 25, tried to sneak contraband into HMP Parc in Bridgend

Wales Online

Stephen Lawrence killer denied request to move to open prison

The application for David Norris to serve the rest of his term in a lower security jail was blocked by Justice Secretary Dominic Raab.

The Independent UK

India's employee hostels are often like prisons – but young women garment workers don't always see it that way

Kavitha, 18, earns a living at a clothing factory in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Like many of her colleagues, she lives in accommodation provided by the factory, where she shares a dimly lit hostel room with 16 other women.

The Conversation

A former Minneapolis cop pleads guilty to manslaughter in George Floyd killing

Thomas Lane pleaded guilty to a state charge of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter in George Floyd's killing. The state is recommending a sentence of three years in prison.

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North Korea 'working prisoners to death' to rebuild nuclear testing ground

North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Un is working political prisoners "to death in secret tunnels” in hope of rebuilding its nuclear weapons testing ground, new testimony has revealed

Wales Online

Russian soldier Vadim Shishimarin pleads guilty to killing unarmed civilian in first Ukraine war crimes trial

Sergeant Vadim Shishimarin faces life in prison

Evening Standard

Russian soldier pleads guilty in first war crimes trial of Ukraine conflict

Sergeant Vadim Shishimarin could get life in prison for shooting a 62-year-old Ukrainian man in the head through an open car window in the northeastern Sumy region

Daily Mirror

Boris Becker moved to cushy prison wing after moaning about cramped conditions

Boris Becker complained about the size of his prison cell in Wandsworth HMP and has now been moved to a different one in a more ‘hands off’ section of the building

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Caroline Crouch's killer husband has adoring fans who say he's 'handsome and dashing'

A small group of women stood outside the court in Athens, Greece, to show support for Babis Anagnostopoulos, 34, who murdered his British wife Caroline Crouch when she tried to leave him

Liverpool Echo

Mechanics laugh after setting autistic apprentice on fire in grim footage

Security footage showed the sick attackers chasing the vulnerable victim with a blow torch and accelerant

Al Jazeera

Activist Alaa Abdel Fattah’s health worsens in Egyptian prison

Egypt rights body urges authorities to transfer activist to better facility, as his family calls for his release.

Wales Online

Child killer who abducted toddler from her bed will remain in prison after parole refusal

Robert Astley snatched two-year-old Denise Bradbury from her bedroom in 1983

Manchester Evening News

I saw my fiancé stab himself to death - then was charged with his murder

"Even to this day, I don’t feel like I’ve had time to grieve"

The Hindu

I was never bogged down by failures, says Perarivalan

‘My mother was the source of my strength during 31 years of imprisonment’

The Hindu

Sheena Bora murder case: Supreme Court grants bail to Indrani Mukerjea

Conditions of Indrani Mukerjea’s bail would be similar to those of Peter Mukerjea, the co-accused in the Sheena Bora murder case and out in bail since 2020

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