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Serial subject Adnan Syed’s murder conviction was overturned. He’s still fighting to keep it that way

The case which gained global attention in the podcast Serial has rumbled on for over two decades. Now, one year after Adnan Syed walked free from prison, he is back in court fighting to prove his innocence in the 2000 murder of his girlfriend Hae Min Lee. Mike Bedigan and…

The Independent UK

Disgraced radio DJ Chris Denning dies while serving prison term for sex crimes

The prolific paedophile, 81, used his fame to groom and sexually assault dozens of young victims in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.

The Independent UK

Jailed Iranian women’s rights campaigner Narges Mohammadi wins Nobel Peace Prize

Imprisoned Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for fighting the oppression of women in the country.

Evening Standard

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Jail Tales: Meet the TikToker interviewing criminals at prison gates

Jamie Robinson says he thinks his interviews deter young people from committing crime

The Independent UK

Nobel Peace Prize awarded to jailed Iranian women’s rights ‘freedom fighter’ Narges Mohammadi

Mohammadi is one of Iran’s leading activists, who has also campaigned for the abolition of the death penalty

The Independent UK

Virgin gamer jailed over hammer attack on sex worker

A virgin man who enjoyed watching violent pornography has been sentenced to nine years in prison after attacking a sex worker with a hammer in a Sydney hotel.

AAP

Women's jail still lacks full CCTV after guard's rapes

A NSW corrective services security manager says a prison where a former guard sexually abused female inmates does not have adequate CCTV cameras.

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Philippines’ drag artist Pura Luka Vega arrested for ‘offending religion’

Performer faces as many as 12 years in prison after their punk rock rendition of the Lord’s Prayer went viral.

Al Jazeera

NSW women’s prison lacking hundreds of security cameras despite guard sexually assaulting detainees

Inquiry into Wayne Gregory Astill’s offending hears up to 500 cameras should be installed in area he worked

The Guardian - AU

Over 100,000 children in England and Wales have parent in prison, analysis shows

Record comes as Estonia confirms it is in talks with UK over plans to accept British prisoners amid overcrowding crisis

The Guardian - UK

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

Can Donald Trump still run for president after four indictments?

Republican former president Donald Trump faces federal indictments in Florida and DC and criminal and civil cases in both New York and Georgia

The Independent UK

Serial offender accused of shooting dead father of three

Roberts has never spent more than six months in prison despite his decades-long rap sheet

The Independent UK

Lori Vallow ramps up bid to prove she was not mentally competent to stand trial

The ‘cult mom’ was sentenced to life in prison for the murders of her children

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A Star Wars-obsessed man has been jailed for a 2021 crossbow plot to kill Queen Elizabeth II

A Star Wars-obsessed man who says he was encouraged by a chatbot girlfriend to slay Queen Elizabeth II has been sentenced to nine years in prison for taking his plot to Windsor Castle

The Hindu

Karnataka govt. to pay ₹5 lakh to ₹7.5 lakh compensation in cases of unnatural death of people while in prison

A policy has been framed for paying a compensation of ₹7.5 lakh to the next of kin of the prisoners in case of unnatural death of prisoner due to a quarrel among prisoners, and ₹5 lakh in case of other unnatural deaths, including suicide, within the prisons, the High Court…

Evening Standard

Crumbling courts, missing prisoners, and a lack of chairs: Volunteers sign up to watch London’s courts

Courts Correspondent Tristan Kirk joins a Courts Watch volunteer who signed up to monitor the inner workings of London’s largely-unseen criminal justice system

Chicago Sun-Times

Secret recordings cite ties between Berrios relative, Chicago mobster: ‘Jimmy and Frank were good friends’

Prosecutors revealed secretly recorded conversations Wednesday as they sought a prison sentence of more than five years for James T. Weiss, convicted this year of bribing two Illinois lawmakers.

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The Independent UK

Afghan women’s rights activist tells summit: Young people are power of the world

Hasina Safi was speaking at the One Young World conference in Belfast.

The Independent UK

Families of imprisoned Tunisian dissidents head to the International Criminal Court

Family members of jailed lawyers and politicians in Tunisia want the International Criminal Court to investigate claims of political persecution and human rights violations

Chicago Sun-Times

Illinois kickstarts funding to state prison libraries with $420K in grants

Each of the state’s 28 prisons will receive $15,000 for books, magazines and other supplies, the first time they’ve received public funding of any kind in six years.

Newcastle Herald

Inmates gain HSC and tertiary education in a state-first jail program

'We come to prison as savages, why not release us as civilised human beings?'

The Independent UK

Student who faced year in Dubai prison after ‘airport altercation’ is allowed to leave country

‘Hellish five months’ in Dubai comes to an end

The Independent UK

Student faces year in Dubai prison after ‘airport altercation’

The 21-year-old has endured ‘degrading, painful and humiliating’ treatment, says charity

The Independent UK

Adnan Syed goes before Maryland Supreme Court facing 'specter of reincarceration,' his lawyers say

Adnan Syed is now free after being imprisoned for the murder of his ex-girlfriend more than two decades ago

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