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Massacre Video Reopens Wounds for Missing Syrians’ Families

For years, the Siyam family clung to hope they would one day be reunited with their son Wassim, who they believed was being held in a Syrian government prison after he went missing at a checkpoint nearly a decade ago. That hope evaporated the moment they saw him in a…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Mac Miller: Second drug supplier sentenced to 17 years in prison for giving rapper fentanyl-laced pills

Stephen Walter pleaded guilty to distributing drugs that led to the death of Miller in September 2018 at age 26

The Independent UK

Massacre video reopens wounds for missing Syrians' families

The Siyam family believed for many years that their adult son was being held at a government prison after he went missing at a checkpoint nearly a decade ago

The Independent UK

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Maharashtra: 40 convicts challenge in HC state order to return to jail

MUMBAI: A group of prisoners on emergency Covid-19 parole has challenged the state's May 4 circular requiring all inmates who had been given temporary parole or bail to surrender within 15 days. It is scheduled to be heard by the HC vacation bench of Justices Nitin Sambre and A L…

The Times of India

Paedophile hunters: Sex offenders caught in sting operations to receive longer prison sentences

New guidelines say judges must consider the ‘intended sexual harm to a child even in cases where no actual child exists’

The Independent UK

Watchdogs raise ‘serious concerns’ over performance of criminal justice system

A report spells out how the coronavirus pandemic has affected the work of police, prosecutors, prisons, probation and youth offending teams.

The Independent UK

Victims waiting years for justice as system operates at ‘unacceptable levels’, watchdogs say

Joint inspection says situation ‘cannot go on’ as too few crimes solved and backlogs continue

The Independent UK

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Feds seek prison for rioter in 'Camp Auschwitz' sweatshirt

Federal prosecutors have recommended a prison sentence of more than two months for a Virginia man who stormed the U.S. Capitol wearing a “Camp Auschwitz” sweatshirt

The Independent UK

Chef Ranveer Singh Brar ladles out cooking tips to Lucknow jail inmates

LUCKNOW: Celebrity chef Ranveer Singh Brar visited Lucknow Model Jail to provide tips to spice up the meals being served to inmates on Monday. Brar has been roped in by the prison department and National Institute for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development (NIESBD) which is the premier wing of the…

The Times of India

4 Florida men charged with conspiracy to commit crimes dressed as police officers, DOJ says

ORLANDO, Fla. — Four Florida men face life in prison after authorities arrested them for committing crimes dressed as police officers.

Orlando Sentinel

County Durham man who tried to flee police on rooftops died after injuries from fall turned septic

Paul Noble had been summoned back to prison and was trying to get away when he fell from a first-floor roof on September 15, 2018

Chronicle Live

Greek man gets life sentence for killing British wife

A Greek man, who confessed to killing his young British wife in front of their 11-month-old child last year, was sentenced to life in prison on Monday in a case which has prompted widespread public outrage.

Reuters

Young West Lothian prisoner attacked fellow inmate after 'feeling threatened'

Liam Hogg, 24, left James Frail bleeding heavily from wounds to his ear, head and neck after attacking him with an improvised weapon in HMP Addiewell.

Edinburgh Live

This forgotten women's prison helped cement Greenwich Village's queer identity

In his book The Women's House of Detention, Hugh Ryan writes about the New York City prison and the role it played in the gay rights movement of the '60s, including the 1969 Stonewall Uprising.

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Children in Gwent recruited by drug dealers to supply crack and heroin

Two men have been handed a combined 17 years in prison following a Gwent Police-led investigation

Chronicle Live

Jailed Hitler-obsessed Newcastle neo-Nazi to serve no extra time in prison for child abuse images

Luke Hunter, of High Callerton, was found with disturbing right wing material and indecent images of children when police raided his home

Daily Mirror

Former France footballer handed five-year sentence for role in nightclub shooting

Two-time Ligue 1 winner Tony Vairelles - who represented the likes of Bordeaux, Lens, Rennes and Lyon during his playing days - has received a five-year prison sentence

Inverse

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Georgia jails critical pro-opposition journalist Nika Gvaramia

Judge sentences anchor and owner of pro-opposition Mtavari TV to three-and-a-half years in prison.

The Independent UK

Convicted killer turned tech whiz confronts his sordid past

His partners tout him as a successful case of rehabilitation and second chances: When he was 20 years old, Harel Hershtik planned and executed a murder

Glasgow Live

Glasgow dad caught with cocaine worth £2.4million 'knew what he was doing'

Graham Curran is beginning a three year prison sentence after the Court of Criminal Appeal quashed the original community payback sentence previously handed down for his part in the drugs trafficking operation.

The Guardian - UK

Locking up pregnant women damages mothers and children – yet the UK does it

Some countries have laws against this inhumane practice, which just worsens existing trauma. Why don’t we, asks Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

The Independent UK

Uyghur county in China has highest prison rate in the world

In oasis towns and villages by the desert in China’s far west Xinjiang region, over 10,000 Uyghurs have vanished – ripped from their families and sentenced to years, even decades in prison on vague, secretive charges

The Independent UK

Uyghur county in China has highest prison rate in the world

The Independent UK

Police phone call recordings show relationship between guard Vicky White and Alabama inmate Casey White

Fellow detainees told police that guard had affair with inmate

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