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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.

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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…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Woman threatened to 'slice up' neighbour with kitchen knife in front of her young son

The court heard Miriam Heale has suffered a number of traumas in her life including seeing her brother sentenced to life in prison for murder when she was a teenager

Wales Online

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ITV's Ruth Dodsworth talks about ex-husband being released from prison after he was found guilty of coercive behaviour and stalking

Ruth Dodsworth's ex-husband could be released later this year after serving less than half of his sentence

Wales Online

Accidental president or coup-plotter? Trial lays bare Bolivia’s polarisation

Jeanine Áñez assumed power after President Evo Morales was driven from office – now she is facing up to 15 years in prison

The Guardian - US

Tasmania's 'unexamined dark past' has led to latest reckoning with child sexual abuse

The current inquiry into sexual abuse in Tasmania has opened wounds, with one expert saying the "unexamined dark past" of the prison island has a lot to answer for — made worse by lingering shame and a compulsion for secrecy.

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ITV's Ruth Dodsworth shares terrifying footage of ex's abuse as he's 'set to be released'

ITV weather woman Ruth Dodsworth's ex-husband Jonathan Wignall was sentenced to three years imprisonment following years of harassment that left her feeling 'nervous, frightened, and broken'

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Stepmum who killed Arthur Labinjo-Hughes, 6, attempted suicide in jail

Emma Tustin is currently serving a life sentence at HMP Peterborough in Cambridgeshire after being charged with manslaughter.

Daily Record

Doctor who assessed Veronica Nelson dismisses nurse's testimony

Prison doctor Sean Runacres says he did not recall assessing Veronica Nelson and labels a nurse present at the examination as "a liar".

ABC News

The picture Ruth Dodsworth's abusive ex-husband sent her children as he tried to manipulate them

Jonathan Wignall is due to be out of prison later this year but ITV presenter Ruth says she won't let him ruin her new life

Wales Online

Brickbat: At Least They'll Be Used to Prison

Florida Department of Corrections employees Ronald Connor, Christopher Rolon, and Kirk Walton have been charged with second-degree murder, aggravated abuse of an elderly or disabled adult, and battery/cruel treatment of a detainee in the beating death of inmate Ronald Gene Ingram. Ingram was being transferred from Dade Correctional Institution, where…

Reason

North Korea Cracks Down on ‘Capitalist’ Pop Culture

An increase in the scale of prison and labor camps in North Korea suggests more people are falling foul of the regime’s rules on deviation from the socialist norm, analysts say.

The News Lens

Alice Springs prison officers strike, claim facility chronically understaffed

Staff at the Alice Springs Correctional Centre open up about chronic burnout, bed shortages and family breakdowns during a 12-hour work stoppage in protest of the NT government's proposed four-year wage freeze.

ABC News

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

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

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The story so far: AP's investigation into federal prisons

An ongoing Associated Press investigation has uncovered deep, previously unreported flaws within the Justice Department’s largest law enforcement agency, the federal Bureau of Prisons

The Independent UK

Abuse-clouded prison gets attention, but will things change?

The director of the federal Bureau of Prisons and a task force of senior agency officials traveled recently to a federal women’s prison in California

The Independent UK

Abuse-clouded prison gets attention, but will things change?

The director of the federal Bureau of Prisons and a task force of senior agency officials traveled recently to a federal women's prison in California

Daily Record

Boris Becker could be booted out of UK after serving prison sentence

The German, jailed for bankruptcy fraud, has lived in Britain since 2012 but will be considered for deportation.

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Alice Springs prison guards walk off job

About 60 corrections officers have walked off the job in Alice Springs over the Northern Territory government's public sector pay freeze, a union says.

Bangkok Post

Dept to ensure better prison food after complaints

The Department of Corrections will check the quality of food served in penitentiaries nationwide and it will assume responsibility if any inmates fall ill from prison food.

Daily Mirror

Rapper Kidd Creole sentenced to 16 years in prison for fatally stabbing homeless man

Rapper Kidd Creole was found guilty of first-degree manslaughter last month after stabbing a homeless man and received his sentence on Wednesday

The Independent UK

Man gets life in prison for fatally stabbing Houston boy

A man has been sentenced to life in prison for fatally stabbing an 11-year-old Houston boy as the child walked home from school in 2016

The Independent UK

Jail official visited inmate in prison months before escape

An Alabama sheriff says a jail official visited a murder suspect in prison months before helping him escape and that her actions suggest their plan had been in the works for some time

The Independent UK

Attorney: Pardoned Chicago man reaches $7.5M settlement

A Chicago man who was pardoned after spending more than seven years in prison for an armed robbery he didn’t commit has reached a $7.5 million settlement with a northern Indiana city and former police officers

The Independent UK

Rapper Kidd Creole sentenced to 16 years for fatal stabbing

Rapper Kidd Creole has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for stabbing a homeless man to death on a New York City

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