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Matthew Perry’s assistant Kenneth Iwamasa sentenced to 41 months for supplying ketamine linked to actor’s death

The live-in assistant of actor Matthew Perry has been sentenced to 41 months in prison for his role in supplying ketamine that contributed to the star’s fatal overdose in 2023, bringing a major chapter of the case to a close.

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Perry's assistant sentenced to 41 months in prison

Matthew Perry's personal assistant has been sentenced to three years and five months in prison for his role in the drug death of the Friends star.

AAP

Matthew Perry’s assistant jailed over actor’s ketamine death

This sentencing marks the fifth and final resolution in the 2 1/2-year investigation and prosecution following the death of the ‘Friends’ star

The Independent UK

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Company led by Republican fundraiser pardoned by Trump wins $106m federal contract

There is no evidence Elliott Broidy’s links to Trump helped AI company win contract to monitor prisoners’ phone calls

The Guardian - US

$1 Billion Medicare Fraud Case Ends In Conviction: HealthSplash Founder Faces Up To 20 Years In Prison

HealthSplash CEO Brett Blackman was convicted of orchestrating a $1 billion Medicare fraud scheme, involving false prescriptions and illegal kickbacks, targeting vulnerable senior citizens.

International Business Times UK

Notorious Tesla road rager sentenced to 7 years after brutalizing mom and daughter in Honolulu

He'd just gotten out on parole after serving 10 months of a 5 year sentence.

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Katie Price insists ‘missing’ husband called her from Dubai prison in mystery saga

The former glamour model has claimed her husband contacted her from jail in Dubai after days of fears surrounding his disappearance and reports of his arrest by local authorities.

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Cambodia sentences six for murder of Korean student

PHNOM PENH - ⁠A ⁠Cambodian court has convicted and sentenced six Chinese nationals to life in prison on charges they tortured and ‌murdered a South Korean student involved with one of Cambodia’s notorious scam centres, a court spokesperson said on Wednesday.

Bangkok Post

Witnesses accuse the Israeli army of arbitrary arrests in Syria

The Israeli army has arrested at least 197 men in southern Syria since late 2024. A lawyer confirmed that 43 of them are still being held in what he says is arbitrary detention in Israeli prisons. The Israeli army, for its part, says they are targeting “suspected terrorists”.

France 24

Democratic Candidate Criticized For Antisemitic Comments Loses House Primary

Maureen Galindo, a Democratic house candidate who got national attention after pledging to turn a former detention center into a "prison for American Zionists and former ICE officers for human trafficking," lost the election on Tuesday.

International Business Times

Quote of the day by Antonio Gramsci: "The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not..." Learn the profound lesson from the imprisoned Italian thinker who exposed how societies surrender freedom quietly through consent, culture, and invisible power

Quote of the day by Antonio Gramsci reveals a timeless truth about power, propaganda, political control, and social influence. Jailed by Italy’s fascist regime under Benito Mussolini, Gramsci warned that societies often lose freedom slowly, through silence, conformity, media narratives, and accepted inequality. His revolutionary ideas on cultural hegemony, consent,…

The Economic Times

London Night Tube predator who sexually assaulted sleeping women is jailed

Salman Yousaf, 46, was already serving a prison sentence when police linked him to a series of unsolved assaults

The Independent UK

Katie Price’s husband found alive in Dubai prison after spy suspicion

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Katie Price: 'He's alive - he's okay' on finding missing husband Lee Andrews after dramatic call from Dubai prison

The model, 48, has said her husband called her from a Dubai prison claiming he's been detained on 'suspicion of espionage'

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UK Prisoner in Sex Video Scandal With Female Warden Speaks Out, Exposes Jail Staff Corruption

Inmate Linton Weirich reveals details of his relationship with a former prison officer and exposes corruption at HMP Wandsworth.

The Guardian - UK

Children seeing extreme violence while held needlessly in jail, says England and Wales watchdog

Prisons inspectorate finds almost 100 children each year are remanded to custody only to be bailed or moved

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: Richard Madeley enters El Salvador’s terrifying mega-prison

The presenter visits the controversial Cecot jail. Plus: Anne discovers the true cost of babysitting in Amandaland. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Independent UK

In The Room | Ex-SNP chief’s embezzlement scandal and the shady role of money in politics

A Dyson floor lamp, a £4,000 fountain pen, boxsets of Scandi noir TV dramas. These are a handful of the items former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell purchased with the £400k he embezzled from the party over the course of a decade. The full list is even longer. Murrell has…

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France Is Banning Zyn and Threatening To Jail People for 5 Years

The French government has criminalized the use of nicotine pouches. Users can be punished with up to 5 years in prison and a fine of almost half a million dollars.

International Business Times UK

Who Is Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov? Youtuber Defies Jail to Leave Diet Coke for North Sentinel Island Tribe for Only a $161 Fine

An Arizona YouTuber risked a five-year prison sentence by illegally visiting North Sentinel Island, leaving a Diet Coke can, and receiving a minor fine instead. The incident raises legal and ethical concerns.

The Guardian - UK

Reform UK civil service plan ‘would sack more planning officers than exist’

Analysis of party’s proposed cuts also suggests it would get rid of two-thirds of psychologists who support prison staff

Radio France Internationale

Former Lafarge cement chiefs released pending Syria terrorism financing appeal

The former CEO of French cement firm Lafarge, Bruno Lafont, and his right-hand man at the company Christian Herrault are to be released from prison under judicial supervision, pending their appeal over convictions handed down in April for financing terrorism in Syria.

The Independent UK

Record drug deaths in British prisons as drones fuel smuggling crisis

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'Concerning' proposal for troubled youth detention hub

A state government has proposed turning a youth detention centre, the subject of harrowing evidence at a child sexual abuse inquiry, into an adult prison.

International Business Times UK

10 Photos of Wander Franco as MLB Star Found Guilty of Abusing a Minor but Avoids Prison

Wander Franco found criminally responsible for minor abuse in Dominican Republic but avoids prison after court grants judicial pardon.

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