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The fall of France's Nicolas Sarkozy, from palace to prison

Nicolas Sarkozy entered the Elysee Palace in 2007 boasting hyperactive energy and a vision to transform France, but lost office after just one term and the ex-president is now set to go to prison in a spectacular downfall.

Radio France Internationale

France's Sarkozy ordered to serve prison time in historic first

A court in France on Thursday sentenced former French president Nicolas Sarkozy to five years in prison after finding him guilty of criminal conspiracy in his trial over accusations the late Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi helped fund his 2007 presidential camapign.

Radio France Internationale

Japanese court rejects an appeal by Australian who says she was tricked into smuggling drugs

A Japanese court on Thursday dismissed an appeal by an Australian woman in a drug smuggling case, upholding a six-year prison sentence by a lower court

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Cocaine Quarterback review – true crime shouldn’t be this entertaining

It’s right to be sceptical of college footballer turned drug kingpin Owen Hanson sharing his own story from prison. But huge characters join in to tell a wild, droll tale with the ultimate ending

The Guardian - UK

Pakistani teenager sentenced to 100 years in prison for killing family over PUBG game

Zain Ali was 14 when he shot his mother, brother and two sisters

The Independent UK

France's Sarkozy Set To Learn Fate In Libya Case

A Paris court is to issue its verdict Thursday in the trial of former French president Nicolas Sarkozy on charges of accepting illegal campaign financing from late Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi, with prosecutors demanding a seven-year prison sentence.

International Business Times

Moment Alaa Abd el-Fattah is reunited with family after release from prison

This is the moment British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah was reunited with his family after being released from prison in Egypt on Tuesday 23 September.

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South Dakota to replace one of the country's oldest prisons

The South Dakota Legislature voted in special session Tuesday to approve a new state prison to replace an overcrowded 140-year-old facility in Sioux Falls

The Independent UK

The old Etonian, his president father and his imprisonment and brutal torture in an African jail

In the first of an exclusive three-part series, Noureddin Bongo tells Claudia Cockerell about his hell after his family were ousted in a coup in Gabon

Evening Standard

Kamala Harris Slams Trump for Pardoning 'the Fentanyl Dealer Ross Ulbricht'

In her new book, 107 Days, the former vice president reminds us that she is ever the prosecutor.

Reason

Stained underwear, male guards and no privacy: what it’s like to have your period in prison

In my 15 years of incarceration, I’ve seen women’s bodily needs constantly disregarded. One solution could grant us back some dignity

The Guardian - US

A piano, a pregnant woman and a prison: Raymond Chandler's 'Nightmare' is revealed

Raymond Chandler's “Nightmare,” a rarely seen sketch, has been published this week in The Strand Magazine

The Independent UK

Former Tennessee House speaker sentenced to 3 years in prison in legislative mail scheme

A former Tennessee House speaker has received a three-year prison sentence over a scheme with a onetime aide to win taxpayer-funded mail business from lawmakers after they left their top leadership roles due to scandals

The Independent UK

‘Walking free’: Marjorie Taylor Greene says she’s spotted the real criminals in Congress

Disgraced former congressman George Santos may be serving more than seven years in federal prison, but Marjorie Taylor Greene isn’t convinced justice is being served. In her latest social media tirade, she argued that Santos is being treated like a political prisoner, while insisting that the real criminals are still…

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Evening Standard

Ryan Routh stabs himself in the neck with a pen as he is found guilty of plotting the assassination of Donald Trump

Ryan Routh, 59, faces life in prison after being found guilty of plotting to assassinate Donald Trump at his Florida golf course

The Independent UK

Inmate who built bombs and sent them to US courthouse jailed for 80 years

A person already in prison has been sentenced to 80 years in federal custody for building and mailing two bombs while incarcerated

Axios

Ryan Routh found guilty in Trump assassination attempt

He faces a maximum sentence of life in prison.

The Independent UK

California man gets $25M for wrongful conviction after 38 years in prison

Maurice Hastings, who spent 38 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, has been awarded $25 million

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ICE Is Transferring People in Its Custody Away From Family, Lawyers

One group ended up in Alaska, where prison guards pepper sprayed them after one man asked for a phone call.

Cinemablend

Julie Chrisley Gets Real About Whether She Held ‘Bitter’ Feelings Towards Husband Todd During Her Prison Stint

Does she blame her husband for what happened?

The Independent UK

Four guards plead guilty to brutal and fatal beating of Black inmate caught on body cam

Four of the 10 guards indicted in February are still headed to trial on October 6, including three accused of murder

The Independent UK

British judge sentences an asylum-seeker to 12 months in a case that triggered anti-migrant protests

A British judge has sentenced an asylum-seeker to 12 months in prison for sexually assaulting a woman and a 14-year-old girl

Reason

From Prison to Helping the FBI to an Apple TV Miniseries … to Google-Hallucinated Libel?

Jimmy Keene, on whom the Apple TV miniseries Black Bird was based, sues Google alleging its AI hallucinated accusations that he's a convicted murderer serving a life sentence.

The Independent UK

Boris Becker tells Lorraine Kelly her daytime show helped get him through long days in prison cell

Boris Becker told Lorraine Kelly her daytime show helped him pass the long days in his prison cell.

The Independent UK

Murdered woman’s son ‘forgives’ killer and pleads to stop his execution

Alabama is scheduled to execute Geoffrey West for the 1997 murder of Margaret Berry

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