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Alleged victims of Mexico-based church leader ask for maximum sentence

Several of the alleged victims of the leader of a Mexico-based church are speaking out ahead of his sentencing, asking for him to receive maximum prison time.

Reuters · Jun 7, 2022

How many January 6 rioters are in jail?

The Justice Department says roughly 65 defendants have recieved jail or prison sentences for their conduct on 6 January 2021

The Independent UK · Jun 7, 2022

Julian Assange's wife Stella Moris reveals how they raise children together while he is in jail waiting an extradition decision

I don’t need to explain to Gabriel and Max the reality of Belmarsh prison where we go to visit their father. They live it, writes Stella Moris.

ABC News · Jun 7, 2022

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Texas suspends inmate transports after escape left 5 dead

The Texas prison system says it's temporarily stopped transporting inmates as it investigates how a convicted murderer escaped from a transport bus last month, later killing a man and his four grandsons

The Independent UK · Jun 7, 2022

Can Mark Zuckerberg fix justice in America? He is betting $450m that he can

EXCLUSIVE: Key players behind the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s nearly half-a-billion dollar investment into criminal justice work tell Josh Marcus how they’re seeking to achieve a lofty goal: keeping more Americans out of the prison system and giving them a chance for something better

The Independent UK · Jun 7, 2022

California prison psychiatrists demand pay raise, rip state spending on contractors

The union that represents California state psychiatrists called on Gov. Gavin Newsom to boost their pay Monday, saying a shortage of prison psychiatrists is harming inmates’ mental health care and endangering employees who work in the institutions.

Tribune News Service · Jun 7, 2022

Australian traveller strip-searched, held in US prison and deported over little-known entry requirement

Jack Dunn was detained for 30 hours with no access to phone or family because onward flight from US went to neighbouring country

The Guardian - AU · Jun 7, 2022

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Harvey Weinstein sues car manufacturer Chrysler over 2019 crash that left him using walker

Weinstein used a walker during his 2020 sexual assault trial, in which he was convicted and sentenced to 23 years in prison

The Independent UK · Jun 7, 2022

Priti Patel accused of trying to deport former Iranian police officer to Rwanda

Man reportedly fled to the UK after being sentenced to five years’ jail for refusing to fire at Iranian protesters

The Guardian - UK · Jun 7, 2022

Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz’s defence attorneys request to withdraw from death penalty trial

Trial to decide if killer of 17 is sentenced to death or life in prison without parole

The Independent UK · Jun 7, 2022

‘Honeytrap’ murder gang member to be freed from prison

The Independent UK · Jun 7, 2022

Court rejects bid to delay Arizona prisoner's execution

An appeals court denied a bid by an Arizona prisoner to delay his execution scheduled for Wednesday for his conviction in the 1984 killing of an 8-year-old girl

The Independent UK · Jun 7, 2022

Paedophile spared prison over haul of 9,000 sick images due to Asperger's

The 35-year-old had a similar previous conviction from 2015

Liverpool Echo · Jun 7, 2022

Russia's Navalny loses appeal on terrorist, extremist label

Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has lost an appeal contesting the decision by penitentiary officials to label him as “inclined to commit crimes of a terrorist or extremist nature."

The Independent UK · Jun 7, 2022

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Texas Observer · Jun 7, 2022

Heroin, Cornell, Prison, and Journalism

In ‘Corrections in Ink,’ star criminal justice reporter Keri Blakinger skillfully tells the story of her own unusual life.

The National (Scotland) · Jun 7, 2022

Scottish Prison Service ‘can weed out potential gender reform abusers’

A SENIOR prisons official has said the service will be able to weed out people seeking to abuse reforms to gender recognition laws.

The Hindu · Jun 7, 2022

Andhra Pradesh: Varla Ramaiah alleges ‘VIP treatment’ to jailed MLC

The TDP leader urges Director General of Prisons to inquire into the issue

Glasgow Live · Jun 7, 2022

Channel 4 drama filmed in Glasgow heading to Kelvin Hall to shoot second series

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The Independent UK · Jun 7, 2022

Indonesian army officer gets life sentence for double murder

A middle-rank Indonesian army officer is being stripped of his military title of colonel after he was sentenced to life in prison for murder, joint deprivation of the independence of others and removing the dead bodies with the intention of concealment

Bangkok Post · Jun 7, 2022

Prisoners hired to clean Bangkok's drains

City Hall has approved a proposal to use prisoners to clean the sewers throughout Bangkok and improve flood drainage, starting on July 1.

Bangkok Post · Jun 7, 2022

Prison labour hired to clean Bangkok's drains

City Hall has approved a Department of Corrections proposal to use prison labour to clean the sewers throughout Bangkok and improve flood drainage, starting on July 1.

The Guardian - AU · Jun 7, 2022

New Zealand court quashes murder conviction of man imprisoned for 19 years

Chief justice says it is clear that justice had seriously miscarried in case of Alan Hall, who was convicted of murder of Arthur Easton in 1985

ABC News · Jun 7, 2022

Jail turned rehab facility in remote NSW offers new hope for First Nations women battling addiction

The site of a former prison and thousands of hectares of rural land have been sold for $1 in a symbolic deal hoped to boost services for women struggling with addiction.

Asharq Al-Awsat · Jun 7, 2022

Brother of Algeria’s Bouteflika Jailed for 8 Years

The jailed brother of Algeria's late president Abdelaziz Bouteflika received an eight-year prison sentence on Monday for corruption, local media reported. Said Bouteflika's co-defendant, construction tycoon Ali Haddad who is also already in prison on other charges, was sentenced to four years, and both received fines. They had been charged…

Newcastle Herald · Jun 7, 2022

'Shameless' snub: prison officers demand $3000 COVID bonus

The union representing prison officers - and a range of other workers considered by many to have been on the front line at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic - says the NSW government should also give one-off payments, like those promised to health workers this week, to employees in…

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