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End Of The Line For Hong Kong's Democratic Party

Under heavy skies, the minibus carrying Hong Kong politician Emily Lau rattles along a winding mountain road to Stanley Prison for a visit she finds all too familiar.

International Business Times

Literary masterpiece The Count of Monte Cristo is being adapted as a clicker game about getting educated to escape prison

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PC Gamer

Taxpayers give Prince William £1.5m-a-year for an abandoned Dartmoor prison – and former inmates say it gave them cancer

As ex-prisoners sue over claims that high levels of radon gas have led to serious illnesses, taxpayers continue to foot the rental bill

The Guardian - UK

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Classicists take ‘ancient philosophical wisdom’ into English jails

Inmates in several prisons given chance to study ethics and rhetoric ‘to inform contemporary life’ and skills

The Guardian - UK

‘When I came out of prison, I couldn’t wait to create’: leading artists and inmates team up to break the prison cycle

Blak In-Justice, staged by the Torch and the Heide Museum of Modern Art, features works by Judy Watson, Vernon Ah Kee and Destiny Deacon

The Guardian - AU

Judge rules Menendez brothers resentencing hearing will go ahead despite district attorney’s opposition

The pair were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole at ages 18 and 21 after being convicted of murdering their parents in 1989

The Independent UK

Trump Supported Sending US Citizens to Salvadoran Prisons, But There is No Legal Pathway To Do So, Experts Say

The Trump administration is eyeing sending U.S. citizens who have committed "heinous, violent" crimes despite lack of legality.

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Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal

White House press passes, Wikipedia edits, and same-sex weddings.

Reason

DHS Secretary Noem Defends Taking Migrants in El Salvador Maximum-Security Prison: 'They Should Stay There for the Rest of Their Lives'

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem defended the Trump administration's decision to take over 200 Venezuelan migrants in a maximum-security prison in El Salvador

Latin Times

Jailed Istanbul mayor İmamoğlu appears in court on public prosecutor threat charges

İmamoğlu's arrest and imprisonment have been widely viewed as politically motivated despite Turkey's government insisting the judiciary is independent and free from political influence.

Euronews

Rogue landlords fined more than £270,000 for illegally converting home into flats

Failure to comply with the confiscation order could result in a prison sentence of two years and nine months

Evening Standard

Free by Amanda Knox review: life affirming memoir that is full of grace

Her second book is a moving account of striving to find purpose in the darkest of places

Evening Standard

Tommy Robinson claims prison is ‘making him ill’ as he appeals jail term

Tommy Robinson should have his 18-month prison sentence reduced as his segregation while in custody is having a “demonstrable effect” on his…

The National (Scotland)

A tech CEO has been charged with fraud for saying his e-commerce startup was powered by AI, when it was actually just using manual human labor

Albert Saniger could face up to 40 years in prison.

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The Guardian - AU

‘I’ll tackle Rox if he tries to go to Egypt’: Richard Roxburgh, Peter Greste and 400 days in a Cairo prison

Greste’s harrowing experience of the Egyptian legal system is brought to the screen in The Correspondent, which takes its audience far beyond the familiar nightly news bulletins of 2014

The Independent UK

Judge directs administration to take all available steps for return of mistakenly deported man

A federal judge is directing the Trump administration to “take all available steps to facilitate the return” of a Maryland man who was mistakenly sent to a notorious El Salvador prison

The Independent UK

Tommy Robinson claims prison is ‘making him ill’ as he appeals 18-month jail term

The far-right activist, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, has access to a laptop, emails and four hours of social phone calls per day inside HMP Woodhill

Reason

American Prisons Don't Work. California Is Trying Something That Might.

What America can learn from prisons in Norway and Sweden.

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The Guardian - UK

The Evin Prison Bakers’ Club by Sepideh Gholian review – like no recipe book you’ve ever read

A political prisoner lifts the lid on the hardships and fantasies of inmates in Iran’s most notorious jail

The Independent UK

South Carolina prepares for second firing squad execution

A firing squad is set to kill a South Carolina inmate

The Conversation

What the Supreme Court’s ruling on man wrongly deported to El Salvador says about presidential authority and the rule of law

The Supreme Court on April 10, 2025, unanimously upheld the lower court order directing the Trump administration to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego García, a Maryland man who was wrongly deported to a maximum security prison in El Salvador.

Salon

SCOTUS orders return of deportee

Maryland father Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been stuck in an El Salvadorian prison since last month

The Independent UK

Supreme Court orders Maryland dad Kilmar Abrego Garcia returned to US from El Salvador prison

Trump administration admitted sending him to notorious prison was ‘administrative error’

Al Jazeera

Palestinian Ahmad Manasra released from Israeli prison after nine years

Ahmad Manasra, 23, has been released after completing nine-and-a-half-year sentence, lawyer says.

Fortune

Sam Bankman-Fried sent to ‘notoriously hard’ prison in California, then low-security facility in LA

The former CEO of FTX wanted to stay in Brooklyn as his appeal wound its way through the courts.

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