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Government signals end of ‘no-go areas’ inside jails that allowed Arena bomb plotter to form a jihadi gang behind bars

Justice Secretary Dominic Raab vowed to crack down on radicalisation in jails - it comes after Arena bomb plotter Hashem Abedi was able to lead a violent Islamist gang from prison

Manchester Evening News

Edinburgh prisoner dies at Saughton Prison weeks into jail sentence

Connor Morrison, 24, was found dead by prison guards at HMP Edinburgh on Wednesday, April 20.

Edinburgh Live

HMP Frankland prison guard required hospital treatment and 12 stitches after violent prisoner attack

Christopher Phillips caused serious injury to the guard after attacking him in his cell at the category A men's prison

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Explainer-Suu Kyi's uphill battle in Myanmar junta's secretive courts

A court in army-ruled Myanmar delivered a guilty verdict and five-year prison term for 76-year-old former leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday, adding to six years already handed down in trials since December.

Reuters

Russia releases former US marine Trevor Reed in surprise prisoner swap with a convicted drug trafficker

Russia and the United States carry out a prisoner exchange, trading a marine veteran jailed in Moscow for a convicted Russian drug trafficker serving a long prison sentence in America.

ABC News

Baby-faced ASBO yobs now big-time drug dealers... but are marked men for life

Lifetime trouble-maker brothers Craig and Jason Cox, who were slapped with ASBOs aged 12 and 15, now face prison for a brutal heist.

Daily Record

Scots prisoner dies at HMP Edinburgh weeks into jail sentence

Connor Morrison, 24, was found dead by prison guards at HMP Edinburgh on Wednesday, April 20.

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Myanmar court adds more jail time for Suu Kyi on corruption

A special court in Myanmar sentenced Aung San Suu Kyi to five years in prison in the first of several corruption charges leveled against the deposed civilian leader, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Tribune News Service

American ex-Marine Trevor Reed released from Russian prison in swap

Almost two years after he was sentenced to nine years in a Russian prison, former Marine Trevor Reed was released Wednesday in a prisoner swap.

Tribune News Service

Sudan frees ex-officials in effort to end political impasse

Lawyers say Sudanese authorities have released two outspoken former government officials from prison

The Independent UK

Diplomat Patsy Robertson’s daughter lost life savings to £200,000 financier fraud

A financier who swindled the daughter of a celebrated Commonwealth diplomat out of her life savings is facing a prison sentence.

Evening Standard

Ex-US Marine Trevor Reed serving nine-year sentence in Russia is released in prisoner swap

The 30-year-old Marine had been serving out a nine-year jail sentence in Russia

The Independent UK

Changing dynamics about crime and politics have wide-ranging influence on Illinois Prisoner Review Board

CHICAGO — When a group of Democratic state senators joined Republicans in rejecting two of Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s nominees to the Illinois Prisoner Review Board last month, it became clear that crime has become such a big issue in this year’s elections it is even driving some divisions within the…

Chicago Tribune

Russia releases US Marine vet as part of prisoner exchange

Russia and the United States have exchanged prisoners

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Evening Standard

Dominic Raab vows to end terrorist ‘no-go areas’ inside jails

Mr Raab also promised legal reforms to stop terrorist prisoners using the Human Rights Act to claim the right to socialise among the rest of the prison population

ABC News

Victoria's strict bail laws may have factored into Veronica Nelson's bid for freedom being denied

A coronial inquest will examine the role tightening bail laws in the wake of the Bourke Street tragedy may have played in Veronica Nelson's treatment by authorities in the lead-up to her death.

The Guardian - UK

Terrorism offenders ‘enjoy high status’ in prison, QC’s official report says

Independent reviewer of terror laws says staffing cuts in England and Wales jails have exacerbated problem

The Independent UK

Islamist terrorists running gangs in prison and guards fear challenging them, report warns

Prison service is failing to tackle radicalisation of offenders behind bars

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AAP

Jail unlikely in cell death case: lawyer

It's possible Veronica Nelson would never have been sentenced to prison if she was convicted of charges she faced when she died in a Melbourne prison cell.

Evening Standard

Former Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi sentenced to five years in prison

The Nobel Peace Prize laureate, 76, had denied the allegation she had accepted gold and hundreds of thousands of dollars given to her as a bribe by a top political colleague

The Canberra Times

Rioting inmate 'blacked out' on prison brew during 'destructive rampage'

The 24-year-old says he does not remember causing $4.6 million worth of damage to Canberra's jail, blaming his forgetfulness on a mysterious drink.

Axios

Myanmar military court sentences Aung San Suu Kyi to 5 years in prison for corruption

It's the latest verdict in a slew of cases that could see the deposed leader imprisoned for the rest of her life.

France 24

Myanmar junta court sentences Suu Kyi to five years for corruption

A court in military-ruled Myanmar convicted the country’s former leader Aung San Suu Kyi of corruption and sentenced her to five years in prison Wednesday in the first of several corruption cases against her.

Chronicle Live

'It’s an insult to Jimmy': Brother of torture victim's anger as killers’ accomplice set to be freed from prison

Kay Rayworth was jailed for 12 years for her role in brutal 2016 murder, in Percy Main, but will be freed next month

ABC News

Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi sentenced to five years prison in first corruption case

A court in military-ruled Myanmar finds former leader Aung San Suu Kyi guilty of corruption and sentences her to five years in jail in the first of 11 cases against her.

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