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Midlothian killer Luke Mitchell boasts about Five Guys trip in prison interview

Luke Mitchell was convicted of killing 14-year-old Jodi Jones in 2005 and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. In the latest string of interviews, he's spoken out about his day trips out.

Edinburgh Live

Humza Yousaf urges Rishi Sunak to ask for immediate release of Scots man imprisoned in India

Jagtar Singh Johal's family say he has been tortured, including through electric shocks, and faces the death penalty over his activism and campaigning for Sikh human rights.

Daily Record

One shot, one opportunity: how Extraction 2’s ambitious ‘oner’ sequence was brought to life

TechRadar sits down with Extraction 2 director Sam Hargrave to discuss the Netflix action movie’s incredibly ambitious one-shot sequence.

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Jail where Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch was held flooded with drugs since his release

Hutch is said to have introduced a 'no drugs' ban while he was held in Wheatfield Prison

Dublin Live

Humza Yousaf writes to PM urging him to act on Jagtar Singh Johal's imprisonment

FIRST Minister Humza Yousaf has written to Rishi Sunak urging him to ask the Indian government to release a Scottish Sikh blogger who has been in…

The National (Scotland)

Humza Yousaf urges PM to act over case of blogger jailed in India

Jagtar Singh Johal from Dumbarton has been imprisoned for more than 2,000 days in India.

The Independent UK

Tragic final moments of young man who jumped from eighth floor building after mum's death

Concerns have been raised about Robert Mulvey's time in prison

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Heather Mack pleads guilty in Chicago murder conspiracy case stemming from mother’s 2014 slaying in Bali

CHICAGO — Heather Mack has already spent nearly every day behind bars since her mother’s bludgeoned body was found stuffed in a suitcase in the Bali resort where they’d been vacationing nine years ago, sparking international headlines and leading police on a trail that began in suburban Chicago.

Chicago Tribune

Prisoners ‘turn lives around’ by reading behind bars, volunteer made OBE says

Jenny Hartley and Sarah Turvey founded Prison Reading Groups (PRG), which sets up book sessions for inmates.

The Independent UK

Pittsburgh synagogue gunman found guilty in worst antisemitic attack in U.S. history

The shooter, who opened fire in the Tree of Life synagogue in 2018, now faces life in prison or death row.

Axios

RIP Daniel Ellsberg, Who Told the World the Truth About the Vietnam War

The Pentagon Papers leaker risked prison to reveal that American military officials were lying to Congress and the public about Vietnam. He died today at age 92.

Reason

Blyth stalking soldier who threatened acid attack on ex and son avoids prison because army need him

Robert Hanlon, of Blyth, used fake social media accounts and subjected his ex and her family to abhorrent threats and harassment

Chronicle Live

Man lived for weeks with dead friend's decaying body in his bedroom

Jamie Russell was slapped with a prison sentence after he failed to notify anyone that the corpse of his friend Matthew Scott, 42, was rotting away on a mattress in his bedroom in Swansea

Daily Mirror

Police Scotland say drug baron on run from prison 'may be in Edinburgh area'

Sean 'Lugs' McGovern was reported missing at around 10pm on Sunday, June 11, after failing to return to HMP Castle Huntly, near Dundee.

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The Guardian - UK

Tangled ethical issues in a tragic abortion case

Letters: Readers debate whether a mother who had an abortion beyond the legal limit of 24 weeks should have been sent to prison

WEKU

An associate of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny is sentenced to prison for extremism

Lilia Chanysheva was sentenced to 7 1/2 years in prison in the latest in a series of lengthy prison terms handed down to Kremlin political opponents. Women are increasingly singled out for repression.

Irish Mirror

Double killer Stephen Penrose gets another jail sentence for threat to burn down prison officer's home

Evil Penrose, 40, is currently serving a life sentence for murder. He also has a prior conviction for manslaughter, three convictions for assaults on prison officers and one for a threat to an officer

The Independent UK

Heather Mack’s family reacts to ‘mastermind’ killer’s guilty plea for mother’s 2014 murder in Bali

On 12 August 2014, Mack and her then-boyfriend Tommy Schaefer bludgeoned Sheila von Wiese-Mack to death with the metal handle of a fruit stand and shoved her body in a suitcase at the luxury 5-star St. Regis resort in Bali

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Liverpool Echo

Liverpool prison thriller given major funding boost ahead of second series

The series written by Jimmy McGovern is shooting across the region now

Daily Record

Cops hunting Scots drug baron on run from prison say he 'may be in Edinburgh area'

Sean 'Lugs' McGovern was reported missing at around 10pm on Sunday, June 11, after failing to return to HMP Castle Huntly, near Dundee.

TechRadar

The 10 best Minecraft servers 2026

A look at all the best Minecraft servers you can play, including Parkour-themed servers, a visit to Westeros and much more.

The Independent UK

‘Suitcase killer’ Heather Mack pleads guilty to conspiracy to murder – facing up to 28 years in US prison

Chicago Sun-Times

Heather Mack pleads guilty to plotting mother’s 2014 killing in Bali

Despite a deal with prosecutors, Mack seems to face a wide range of outcomes when she is sentenced. Prosecutors have taken the position that she should not be credited for the time she spent imprisoned in Indonesia. Mack’s lawyers disagree.

The Independent UK

Arizona man on death row for 29 years is released after conviction for girl’s murder is thrown out

An Arizona death row inmate who spent 29 years behind bars has been released from prison

Tribune News Service

Commentary: How fathers can help their families

James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, used to tell the story of a greeting-card company that decided to provide free Mother’s Day cards for prison inmates. The response was amazing, with long lines to get the cards. The next month when Father’s Day rolled around, the company decided…

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