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Former Colombian drug lord Rodriguez Orejuela dies in U.S. prison

Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, a former leader of Colombia's once-powerful Cali cartel, has died in the United States while serving a 30-year drug trafficking sentence, his family said on Wednesday.

Reuters

More COVID-19 outbreaks reported at California prisons, among inmates and staff

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Outbreaks are underway at several state prisons among both inmates and staff, data from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation show, amid a broader surge of COVID-19 spreading across California and nationwide.

Tribune News Service

Federal prison inmate to get gender-affirming surgery: ACLU

Cristina Nichole Iglesias has been fighting for years to have the procedure. She is serving a 28-year prison sentence for threatening to use a weapon of mass destruction.

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Two Forest Bank prison staff suspended over misconduct allegations

The Salford jail was hit with a damning inspection report this week

Manchester Evening News

Danger driver handed indefinite prison sentence after killing Sunderland mother flees from jail

Alan Paul Steel absconded from HMP Sudbury during the early hours of Tuesday morning

Chronicle Live

Leader of now-defunct Colombian drug cartel dies in US jail

An elderly leader of the former Cali cartel that smuggled vast amounts of cocaine from Colombia to the United States in the 1980s and 1990s has died in a U.S. prison

The Independent UK

Freedom Grams: A Cannabis Brand And Its Open-Source Project To Help Weed Prisoners

By Franca Quarneti via El Planteo. Although in the United States cannabis is a multibillion-dollar industry, about 40,000 people are still incarcerated for cannabis in the country.

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Grandmother who arranged ‘honour killing’ of daughter-in-law to be freed from prison after 15 years

Bachan Athwal, now 85, was jailed in 2007 for ordering the murder of 27-year-old Surjit Athwal after learning she was having an affair and wanted to divorce her son

The Independent UK

Matriarch who ordered death of daughter-in-law to be freed from jail

The Parole Board has approved the release of Bachan Athwal, now 85, from prison.

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson's future: a philosophical exercise for wavering Tory MPs

Former British prime minister David Cameron famously proclaimed in 2010 that the thought of giving prisoners the vote made him “physically ill”. Cameron argued that “frankly, when people commit a crime and go to prison, they should lose their rights, including the right to vote”.

The Conversation

Judge offers drug dealing dad prison - or a chance to change for his son

Joshua Edge agreed to 18 months jail sentence suspended for two years alongside rehabilitation and 150 hours of unpaid work

Manchester Evening News

No ‘bad thing’ for prisoners to take part in Jubilee celebrations – Raab

Justice Secretary says inmates could benefit from ‘positive motivation’ to ‘turn their lives around’.

The Independent UK

Long delay at Paris terror trial as nine accused refuse to take their places in court

Tuesday's hearing at the Special Criminal Court was delayed for several hours because nine of the eleven prisoners accused of involvement in the November 2015 Paris terrorist attacks refused to take their places in the glass security enclosure.They were protesting in support of Muhammad Usman, one of their number, who…

Radio France Internationale

Mum slashed Next security guards with knife after trying to steal children's clothes

Claire Newman wept as she was sentenced to prison

Manchester Evening News

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Liverpool Echo

Judge offers drug dealing dad prison or chance to change for son

Drug dealer Joshua Edge was previously jailed for slashing a dog's neck

The Canberra Times

Ex-gang boss slashed inmate's face with 'shiv' in 'vicious' prison bashing

The former Brothers 4 Life chapter leader wrongly suspected the victim was a paedophile.

The Independent UK

Police hunt convicted sex offender on the run from open prison

Gary Butcher is the second man to have absconded from the open prison this year

Liverpool Echo

Thugs snatched baby girl from mum's hands and threatened to kill her

The thugs also punched the mum in the abdomen just weeks after she had a caesarean section

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Benzinga

Man Who Won $10M In Lottery Sentenced To Life In Prison

A North Carolina man who won $10 million from a scratch-off lottery card is not going to have many chances to spend his fortune – he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the 2020 murder of his girlfriend.

The Hindu

Vellore Central Prison gets more fruit bearing trees

Officials initiate drive to plant at least 2,000 saplings, roping in inmates and prison staff

Bristol Post

Former Bristol City defender Bradley Orr on 'The Swindon Butcher' and how prison changed him

The former Robin spent 28 days in jail in 2006 alongside team-mates Steve Brooker and David Partridge following a nightclub brawl in Bristol

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin's enemy Alexei Navalny facing extra 15 years in prison over new charges

In March, Vladimir Putin's foe Alexei Navalny - who nearly lost his life when he was poisoned with Novichok - was sentenced to nine years of strict regime prison for 'fraud and insulting the court’

Reuters

Russia's Navalny says he faces new criminal case, up to 15 more years in jail

Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said on Tuesday he has been charged in a new criminal case and faces up to 15 more years on top of his existing sentence if found guilty.

Zenger

Prison Break Tottenham Boy Seized: Fugitive Gunman Arrested

Izzet Eren, 39, had been jailed for 21 years in the United Kingdom for firearms offenses in 2015.

Glasgow Live

Mum's horror as man who killed dad housed opposite family member

Karen McGuire has hit out after Christopher Abraham was moved in opposite her son after he was released from prison for the killing of her dad David Linning.

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