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Promising recruitment consultant became drug dealer after pandemic hit hard

Robert Hicks was full of remorse when he appeared in court but the judge still jailed him for three years.

Daily Record

Westbury locals relieved as Deloraine's Ashley Youth Detention Centre becomes preferred site of new prison instead

The plan to build an adult prison in the northern Tasmanian town of Westbury has been ditched, with the Ashley Youth Detention Centre site instead identified as the preferred option.

ABC News

Canadian prisoner attacked by convicted terrorist now in legal fight with Victorian government

A Canadian woman serving a sentence in a Melbourne jail has launched a lawsuit against the Victorian government over a 2020 attack by another inmate, alleging prison officials failed to supervise her attacker.

ABC News

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‘Come home’: Alabama DA sends message to fugitive prison official who disappeared with murder suspect

Chris Connolly says missing corrections officer Vicki White is in danger

The Independent UK

New Zealand has long imprisoned people seeking asylum. It’s time we said ‘This is not us’ and really meant it

The independent Casey report calls for an end to arbitrary detention, and proper resettlement resources to treat asylum seekers as equal to quota refugees

The Guardian - AU

Sleeping prisoner left in induced coma after vicious attack by 'mates'

Two jail inmates have been punished further after they attacked a fellow prisoner, leaving him with post-concussion syndrome.

The Canberra Times

Baby P’s mother ‘traded secret love letters during prison romance’

The Government bid to keep Tracey Connelly behind bars raised concerns about deception.

The Independent UK

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The rapper Kidd Creole is sentenced to 16 years over a fatal stabbing

Rapper Kidd Creole, who was a founding member of Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, was sentenced Wednesday to 16 years in prison for stabbing a homeless man to death on a New York City street.

WEKU

Home Office ‘could try to deport Boris Becker’ after prison term

Law states that foreign nationals with prison sentences over 12 months can be deported

The Independent UK

Sarah Everard killer says he 'doesn't deserve' full life in prison

Off-duty Met PC Wayne Couzens, 48, abducted Sarah Everard in south London in March 2021 before raping and murdering the 33-year-old

Manchester Evening News

Doctors share ‘horror show’ stories from before Roe v Wade – and their fears of what’s to come

Professor Carole Joffe interviewed 45 physicians and healthcare professionals almost 30 years ago about abortions before and after Roe v Wade. One of those doctors, along with the author, tells Sheila Flynn how the leaked Supreme Court memo may not foreshadow the medical ‘horror show’ seen pre-Roe – but disastrous…

The Independent UK

Swansea Prison inmates paid thousands of pounds in compensation for 'slips, trips' and 'bunk-bed related' claims

The Ministry of Justice has dished out five figure sums to prisoners

Wales Online

How prisons are using COVID-19 containment measures as a guise for torture

Newly reported data shows that torture continues in federal prison segregation units. It’s an ongoing feature of Ontario provincial jails too.

The Conversation

Baby P's mum Tracey Connelly set to be released from prison

The Parole Board has rejected a challenge from the Government against a ruling saying she could be freed

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Baby P's mum Tracey Connelly will be freed from jail as judge gives green light

Tracey Connelly was jailed at the Old Bailey in 2009 for causing or allowing the death of little Peter at their home

The Independent UK

New video shows Alabama murder inmate escaping with prison guard as manhunt continues (cloned)

Other inmates say Casey White was ‘getting extra food on his trays’ from the corrections officer

Manchester Evening News

Mother of Baby P Tracey Connelly to be RELEASED from prison after government loses legal challenge

Tracey Connelly was jailed in 2009 for causing or allowing the 17-month-old's death

Evening Standard

Baby P mother Tracey Connelly will be released from prison after Parole Board rejects Government challenge

Reacting to the decision, Dominic Raab said it ‘demonstrates why the parole board needs a fundamental overhaul’

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The Independent UK

Baby P’s mother to be released from prison as Raab calls for ‘fundamental overhaul’ of Parole Board

Justice secretary Dominic Raab calls of overhaul of Parole Board following decision to free woman jailed in 2009

Daily Mirror

Where The Staircase's Michael Peterson is now - prison release and divided family

Michael Peterson, who is played by Colin Firth in new Sky Atlantic drama The Staircase, pleaded guilty to killing wife Kathleen by involuntary manslaughter as part of an 'Alford plea' but denies attacking her

WEKU

Judge accepts plea deal in Derek Chauvin's civil rights case

The judge in the civil rights cases of four former police officers in the killing of George Floyd said that he has accepted Derek Chauvin's plea agreement and will sentence him to 20 to 25 years.

Wales Online

RSPCA found 35 animals in property with 'overpowering stench of faeces and urine'

Alan Peckenham was banned from keeping animals for life and given 16-week suspended prison sentence after admitting causing unnecessary suffering

The Independent UK

HMP Barlinnie gets first prison body scanner in Scotland in efforts to curb smuggling

Device instantly reveals contraband such as drugs, weapons and mobile phones

WEKU

ACLU of KY files federal lawsuit over an alleged violation of religious liberties in KY prisons

The American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky has filed a federal lawsuit over religious liberty violations in Kentucky prisons. The suit was filed on Friday on behalf of Carlos Thurman who is being held at Eastern Kentucky Correctional Complex in West Liberty.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Hundreds Gathering in Damascus Await Prisoners Freed in Amnesty

Families of prisoners held for years in Syrian jails are closely watching the implementation of the presidential decree giving a general amnesty to people convicted on terrorism charges. The amnesty excludes acts that have led to killings. Families from the Syrian opposition are weary that the exclusion could mean that…

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