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Alex Murdaugh pleads guilty to financial crimes in state court, adding to prison time

Alex Murdaugh pleaded guilty Friday to a slew of financial crimes in state court, adding to the prison time facing the longtime lawyer who was convicted of killing his wife and son

The Independent UK

Florida's Bloated Prison System Will Cost Billions To Maintain

Florida's mandatory minimum sentences created a large, elderly prison population. Now the bill is coming due.

Reason

Prison phone company blamed for data breach affecting thousands of users

Global Tel*Link settled case with the FTC, promising changes and safeguards for its customers.

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Do Kwon denied appeal in Montenegro as possible extradition to South Korea or U.S. looms

The disgraced former CEO of Terraform Labs was caught trying to use a fake passport to flee Montenegro in May.

Fortune

Man who attacked Rep Angie Craig at her apartment imprisoned for 27 months

Representative Angie Craig said she warded off her attacker, who trapped her in the elevator of her apartment complex, using a cup of hot coffee.

The Independent UK

Wife of twice-poisoned Briton held in Kremlin prison fears ‘time is running out’

Exclusive: Vladimir Kara-Murza was sentenced to 25 years in a Russian prison in April this year for criticising the ‘special military operation’ in Ukraine

The Independent UK

Prison officer accused of scalding prisoner, SHRC orders probe

The State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has registered a case following a complaint against a prison officer accused of scalding a remand prisoner using boiling water for raising an objection after finding a hair in his breakfast in the Poojappura Central Prison.

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Former Nigerian central bank chief arraigned and remanded in prison for alleged fraud

The former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria has been charged with procurement fraud

The Independent UK

Japanese kabuki actor gets suspended sentence for assisting parents’ suicide

Ennosuke Ichikawa was part of apparent family pact to take their own lives after he learned he was to be accused of sexual abuse

The Guardian - UK

Alabama guard accused of encouraging prisoners to murder organizer of strikes

Lawsuit filed against Alabama department of corrections alleges Jeremy Pelzer pushed inmates to kill Robert Earl Council

The Guardian - US

Bedford Prison in ‘urgent’ need of improvement, inspectors warn

HM Chief Inspector of Prisons Charlie Taylor said ‘this latest inspection is a damning indictment of the state of prisons’.

The Independent UK

Urgent warning over ‘squalid overcrowded’ prison where inmate escaped on stolen bike

Inspection is ‘damning indictment of the state of prisons’ in England and Wales, HM Inspector says

The Independent UK

Texas woman is sentenced to 90 years in prison for killing a pro cyclist

A Texas jury sentenced Kaitlin Armstrong to 90 years in prison for the May 2022 shooting death of cyclist Anna "Mo" Wilson in a case that sent investigators on an international search for the killer.

WEKU

Texas woman convicted and facing up to life in prison for killing pro cyclist Mo Wilson

A woman convicted of murder in the shooting death of rising professional cyclist Anna Moriah Wilson in Texas faces up to life in prison when sentenced in a case that led investigators on a 43-day international search to find her

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New training rolled out after prison staff administered CPR on ‘clearly dead’ inmate

Officers tried to revive Dominic Burges despite the 30-year-old being ‘cold, stiff and with no pulse’

The Independent UK

Former prison guard jailed for eight years for sexually abusing female inmates

Andrew Jones, 36, of Clovis, California, participated in a culture of ‘egregious sexual abuse’ that included multiple employees of the jail, including the warden and chaplain

WEKU

Private detective who led a hacking attack against climate activists gets prison time

Aviram Azari was sentenced to almost seven years in prison on Thursday. Azari directed a group of hackers that targeted thousands of victims globally, including U.S. climate activists.

The Independent UK

Ohio man sentenced to nearly 5 years in prison for attacks on police during Capitol riot

An Ohio man who repeatedly attacked police officers at the U.S. Capitol during a mob's riot on Jan. 6, 2021, has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison

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Prison staff retrained after administering CPR on ‘clearly dead’ inmate

Officers at Bullingdon prison tried to revive Dominic Burges despite the 30-year-old being ‘cold, stiff and with no pulse’.

Reason

Prosecutors of 6-Year-Old Shooter's Mother Claim Gun-Owning Pot Users Are 'Inherently Dangerous'

Deja Taylor is going to federal prison because of a constitutionally dubious gun law that millions of cannabis consumers are violating right now.

Salon

Trump calls Kim Kardashian "overrated"

Trump also denied commuting prison sentences for her, preferring to credit her ex and his pal Kanye West instead

The Independent UK

In Russia, more Kremlin critics are being imprisoned as intolerance of dissent grows

Russia under President Vladimir Putin has been closing in on those who challenge the Kremlin

The Hindu

Senior prison officials likely to be questioned in Bitcoin scam

SIT probing Bitcoin scam to question prison officials who had Sri Krishna in custody; hacker had stolen bitcoins from Bitfinex, one of world's largest cryptocurrency heists; SIT to summon 3 prison officials, incl. senior official, for questioning.

The Independent UK

Government grants permission for new prison despite council rejecting plans

Michael Gove intervened and granted planning permission for the new prison near Market Harborough after an appeal from the Ministry of Justice.

The Hindu

Murugha Sharanaru released on bail from Chitradurga prison in PoCSO case

Seer Shivamurthy Murugha Sharanaru released on bail from Chitradurga prison after 14 months. Bail conditions bar him from entering Chitradurga district. He is accused of sexually exploiting two minor girls and violating SCs and STs (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. High Court granted bail on Nov 8, and Chitradurga District and…

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