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‘I feel super gassed’: Lady Unchained, the prison radio host playing inmates’ raps

Hosted by poet and broadcaster Lady Unchained, Free Flow lets prisoners phone in their raps – and one has even recorded a single. We go behind the scenes of the show, which is up for three awards

The Guardian - UK

After years in a Syrian ISIS camp, a 10-person American family is back in the U.S.

The complex deal also brought home two sons of a Minnesota man who fought for ISIS.

WEKU

Appetising, delicious food served up to prisoners? It works for the Nordic countries

Inmates cook together, eat together – and sometimes even forage together. It puts Britain’s rat-infested facilities to shame, writes Lucy Vincent, chief executive of Food Behind Bars

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Neighbours spoilers: WHO does JJ visit in prison?

Here's your Ramsay Street round-up for everything that happens on Neighbours between May 13 to 16...

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Tuesday briefing: How the ‘unjust’ IPP prison sentence scandal ruined thousands of lives

Imprisonment for public protection, or IPP, was envisaged as a tough measure on UK crime – but it has had devastating effects on thousands and their families

The Guardian - UK

Unsentenced Prisoners Vote For Mexican President In 'Historic' First

Prisoners awaiting trial or sentencing began voting Monday in Mexico's presidential election from inside jails -- a first for the Latin American nation.

International Business Times

Minnesota's Indefinite Detention of Sex Offenders Is Ineffective As Well As Unjust

A new report argues that the notorious program squanders taxpayer money while keeping people imprisoned without justification or recourse.

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Alabama's New Sex Trafficking Law Could Mean Life in Prison for Trafficking Victims

It's the war on drugs all over again, folks...

Reason

‘I am ready to return whenever they say’: Nasrin Sotoudeh on prison, the hijab, and violence in Iran

Exclusive: the human rights lawyer, temporarily released from jail on medical grounds, describes her love for her family, and why she keeps going despite brutal treatment at the hands of the regime

The Guardian - UK

Fishmongers’ Hall heroes in housing project for ex-inmates

Many prisoners are homeless after release but former inmate and probation worker want to fix that

The Guardian - UK

‘My role was to be a truthful witness’: photographer Jack Lueders-Booth’s Polaroids of American female prisoners

In the 1970s, the photographer began teaching in a progressive US women’s prison and made moving portraits of many of the inmates. Looking back, he sees how many of them actually felt safer in prison

The Guardian - UK

Prisons ‘sleepwalking into crisis’ as inmates forced to share single cells

Longer sentences and court backlogs push 25% of prisoners in England and Wales into shared cells, adding to drug-use and violence

The Guardian - UK

Unfair jail sentences – one more example of demonising society’s ‘morally unfit’

The IPP scandal should not be seen in isolation. It is all part of today’s politics by vilification

The Guardian - UK

Police searching for man who absconded from Suffolk prison

Wall is currently serving a seven-year sentence for aggravated burglary with intent.

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France 24

Rap music in Iran: 'Crossing the red line into politics makes you a target'

Dozens of rappers have been arrested in Iran since the rise of hip-hop in the country in the early 2000s. But the death sentence pronounced on April 24 against the rapper Toomaj Salehi marks a turning point in the Iranian regime’s intolerance of artists with a political message. Exiled rap…

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Feds accuse Texas prison agency of discriminating against employee for wearing a headscarf

A federal lawsuit asserts that the Texas agency terminated a state prison clerk who refused to remove a head covering in line with her Ifa faith.

International Business Times UK

Fitness Instructor Sentenced To 11 Years In Prison For Demanding An End To Saudi Arabia's Guardian Laws

`After being arrested for "her choice of clothing and support for women's rights" in November 2022, Manahel al-Otaibi has been sentence to 11 years in prison.

Salon

Brittney Griner recalls Russian prisons

The WNBA star and former Russian prisoner tells all in a New York Times profile

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Evening Standard

Palestinian groups protest after death of doctor held in Israeli prison

The doctor is said to have been taken prisoner from a hospital in Gaza.

France 24

Saudi court ‘secretly’ hands 11-year sentence to women's rights activist

A Saudi court has recently sentenced women's rights activist Manahel al-Otaibi to 11 years in prison in a "secret hearing", according to two human rights groups who denounced the ruling as contradictory to the kingdom’s “narrative of reform and women’s empowerment”.

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Cambodian Supreme Court Upholds Labor Union Leader's Sentence

Cambodia's Supreme Court upholds labor union leader's prison sentence for incitement following NagaWorld casino strike and ongoing protests.

Al Jazeera

Doctor from Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital dies in Israeli prison

Groups advocating for Palestinian prisoners say Adnan al-Bursh, head of orthopaedics, died as a ‘result of torture’.

Al Jazeera

Palestinian employee of German development agency ‘abused’ in Israeli jail

Baraa Odeh has told her lawyer from prison that she has been repeatedly strip-searched and physically assaulted.

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