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Obama’s massive prisoner release led to Jesse Webster’s Chicago success story and three failures

President Barack Obama granted executive clemency to more than 1,900 federal prisoners, a record. Jesse Webster made the most of his freedom. Three others are back in jail.

Chicago Sun-Times

High-profile attacks on Derek Chauvin and Larry Nassar put spotlight on violence in federal prisons

Recent assaults on two notorious, high-profile federal prisoners have renewed concerns about whether the federal Bureau of Prisons is capable of keeping people in its custody safe

The Independent UK

Michigan school shooting victims to speak as teen faces possible life sentence

A court hearing in suburban Detroit is likely to be tense and emotional as a judge hears from families and surviving victims of the Oxford school shooting, Ethan Crumbley could be sentenced to life in prison Friday

The Independent UK

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‘Levels of hell’: Father of Swedish EU diplomat calls for his release by Iran

Exclusive: Matts Floderus says he is deeply worried about son Johan, who has been in detention for 600 days

The Guardian - UK

Some Californians released from prison will receive $2,400 under new state re-entry program

Hundreds of Californians released from prisons will receive direct cash payments totaling $2,400 — along with counseling, help with job searches and other support

The Independent UK

Former police chief turned yoga teacher sentenced to 11 years over Jan. 6 riot

A retired police chief, who led pro-Trump protests and called for "traitors" in government to be "executed as an example," was sentenced to 11 years in prison for his role in the U.S. Capitol riot.

WEKU

Kremlin foe Navalny's lawyers to remain in detention at least through mid-March, Russian court rules

A Moscow court has extended the pre-trial detention of three lawyers who once represented imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny

The Independent UK

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Peru braces for protests after former President Fujimori's release from prison

The release from prison of the former authoritarian leader has triggered uproar in the Andean country. He had been serving a 25-year sentence for directing death squads against supposed subversives.

WEKU

Mom convicted of killing kids in Idaho pleads not guilty to Arizona murder conspiracy charges

A woman sentenced to life in an Idaho prison for murdering her two youngest children and another woman pleaded not guilty to Arizona charges of conspiring to kill her estranged husband and her niece’s ex-husband

The Independent UK

GTA 6 detectives think the trailer is telling Lucia's story in reverse, and I'm starting to believe them

GTA 6 could start with Lucia leaving prison

GamesRadar

Denmark’s parliament adopts law banning Quran burnings

Those who break the law – which forbids publicly burning, tearing or defiling holy texts – risk a fine or imprisonment.

Al Jazeera

Manuel Rocha, Former U.S. Diplomat Accused of Spying for Cuba, Faces 60 Years in Prison

Rocha has been accused of acting as an illegal agent of a foreign government and of defrauding the nation

Latin Times

Will Donald Trump go to prison?

Ex-president Donald Trump faces 91 felony counts across four prosecutions as he runs for 2024 election

The Independent UK

GTA 6 detectives think its first trailer actually plays out in reverse—all thanks to an ankle bracelet with some grim, real-world implications

I stepped into a rabbit hole.

PC Gamer

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Evening Standard

Colin Pitchfork: Double child killer denied prison release

Pitchfork was jailed for life with a minimum term of 30 years in 1988 for murdering and raping 15-year-olds Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth

The Independent UK

Colin Pitchfork: Double child killer won’t be released from prison

Colin Pitchfork was jailed for the murder and rape of two 15-year-old girls in the 1980s

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“Fairytale Turned Horror Tale”: Groom Of $56M “Wedding Of The Century” Faces Life Imprisonment

Madelaine Brockway's husband, Jacob Lagrone, went from being the groom of a viral expensive wedding to being arrested and facing life in prison. The post “Fairytale Turned Horror Tale”: Groom Of $56M “Wedding Of The Century” Faces Life Imprisonment first appeared on Bored Panda.

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Two men charged with murder over alleged inmate bashing

Two men have been charged with murder over the death of Benn Schinkel after a suspected bashing in a central Queensland prison last year.

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International Business Times

Peru's Aging Ex-president Fujimori Freed After Pardon Reinstated

Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori, 85, was freed from prison on Wednesday after a court reinstated a pardon of his 25-year sentence for crimes against humanity.

WEKU

Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori freed from prison on humanitarian grounds

Fujimori, 85, was serving a 25-year sentence in connection with the slayings of 25 Peruvians by death squads in the 1990s.

The Independent UK

Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is freed from prison on humanitarian grounds

Peru’s former President Alberto Fujimori has been released from prison on humanitarian grounds, despite a request from a regional human rights court to delay his release

The Guardian - US

Six Nevada Republicans charged with casting fake electoral votes in 2020

State’s attorney general charged the fake electors with two felonies each, with penalties up to five years in prison

France 24

Moscow police raid LGBTQ nightclubs: ‘My life was hanging by a thread’

Moscow police carried out raids on nightclubs hosting LGBTQ events on December 1, just two days after Russia’s Supreme Court banned the “international LGBTQ movement” and classified it as an extremist movement. The police forced people in attendance to strip to their underclothes and took photos of their identity cards…

The Independent UK

An heiress bride and the groom facing prison: Madelaine Brockway’s ‘wedding of the century’

Viral ‘wedding of the century’ has cast eyes at the bride and groom, Madeline Brockway and Jacob LaGrone, as he faces charges of aggravated assault

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago taxpayers have paid nearly $700 million since 2000 in lawsuits by people who claimed they were framed by police

The tally of 300 cases includes nearly $140 million paid to lawyers for the city and $537 million paid to plaintiffs.

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