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Iran, US to exchange prisoners ‘soon,’ foreign minister says

Iran and the U.S. will soon carry out a prisoner exchange, the Islamic Republic’s foreign minister said, in a deal that will likely involve dual U.S.-Iranian nationals detained in Tehran.

Tribune News Service

Reentry programs to help former prisoners obtain health care are often underused

When Matthew Boyd was released from a Georgia state prison in December 2020, officials sent him home without medicines he uses to manage chronic heart and lung conditions and high blood pressure, he said.

Tribune News Service

Iran signals US prisoner exchange could be close

US official denies claims by Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian that an initial deal has been reached.

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Raul Romeva: Scotland and Catalonia WILL get our independence vote

SCOTLAND and Catalonia will legally vote on independence sooner or later, but it will take persistent demand to politically address the question,…

The National (Scotland)

Wild men fight with hammers and axes in cemetery, intrude on ceremony and spit on floor

A new video has emerged of men and boys fighting at Swansea's Morriston Cemetery, damaging gravestones and disruption funerals, while some people were paying tribute to their loved ones

Daily Mirror

Vile thugs fight with hammers and axes as violent chaos descends on cemetery

The pitched battles at Swansea's Morriston Cemetery on August 5, 2022 sparked a huge police investigation.

Daily Record

Dumbartonshire killer who butchered teenage mum died days after being found slumped in prison cell

A Fatal Accident Inquiry into the death of murderer Michael McArthur found he suffered a catalogue of health problems that led to his death from sepsis while serving life killing Amy Anderson.

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Mauritania says three fugitives killed after prison break

Three escaped detainees in Mauritania have been killed and one other detained after a shootout with security forces, the Mauritanian authorities said on Saturday.

Reuters

Jen Shah moans about prison breakfast as she insists she 'doesn't belong' behind bars

Jen Shah, 49, was sentenced to 78 months after she was found guilty of defrauding elderly and vulnerable people out of tens of millions of dollars in a telemarketing scheme

Daily Mirror

18 female guards at same jail fired for having illicit affairs with inmates

One female guard had a sexual relationship with convicted drug dealer John McGee who was serving time for causing death by dangerous driving

Liverpool Echo

He tried to roll 5 pounds of meth through LAX. It didn't fly

LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles man received a 12-year federal prison sentence Friday for attempting to transport 5 pounds of methamphetamine through Los Angeles International Airport last year, the U.S. attorney's office said.

Los Angeles Times

US General Warns of ISIS ‘Army in Detention’ in Syria, Iraq

A US general warned Saturday that the Middle East faces the looming threat of an ISIS group "army in detention", after visiting prisons and camps in northeastern Syria holding suspected extremists and their relatives. General Michael Kurilla, head of the US military's Central Command, visited several detention facilities this week,…

Asharq Al-Awsat

A year after plea talks began, the 9/11 case is still in limbo, frustrating families

Settlement talks began a year ago in the 9/11 terrorism case. But little progress has been made, dragging out the future of the problem-plagued U.S. military court and prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

WEKU

Stephen Bear has been crying for days in cell as he's put on prison suicide watch

The former Celebrity Big Brother winner was sentenced to 21 months in prison last week

Irish Mirror

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The Guardian - UK

For all of us detained at Guantánamo, making art was a lifeline. Why won’t Joe Biden let us keep our work?

Art freed our minds and helped us survive. It cannot be right to argue that, even now, the fruits of our creativity belong to the state, says Mansoor Adayfi, an artist and former Guantánamo prisoner

AAP

Magpies, Power strike deal over prison bar guernsey

Collingwood have relaxed their staunch opposition to Port Adelaide's 'prison bar' guernsey, allowing the Power to wear it in their AFL showdown with Adelaide.

Los Angeles Times

Paul Flores sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole for murder of Kristin Smart

LOS ANGELES — Paul Flores was sentenced Friday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the murder of fellow Cal Poly San Luis Obispo student Kristin Smart, who disappeared on Memorial Day weekend more than 25 years ago and whose body was never found.

Tribune News Service

Paul Flores receives maximum sentence for murdering Cal Poly student Kristin Smart

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — A Monterey County Superior Court judge on Friday sentenced Paul Flores to 25 years to life in state prison for killing California Polytechnic State University student Kristin Smart — the maximum sentence for first-degree murder.

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The Independent UK

Marjorie Taylor Greene and House GOP want to visit January 6 defendants in jail

Oversight Committee Republicans are investigating Washington DC’s jail but activists say their years of warnings about the prison’s mistreatment of its mostly Black population fell on deaf ears

Los Angeles Times

Did ‘Tiger King’ ruin Joe Exotic’s life? ‘Absolutely,’ he says in a call from prison

“Tiger King” made Joe Exotic a pandemic-era star, right? Wrong, says the man himself.

Reason

Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Speedy trials, political advertising, and horseracing.

The Independent UK

Ahmaud Arbery's killers deny racist motives in appeals

Three white men sentenced to prison in the 2020 killing of Ahmaud Arbery are asking an appeals court to throw out their federal hate crime convictions

Nottingham Post

Nottingham terrorist returned to jail for breaching notification requirements

The 53-year-old was released from prison in 2020

The Independent UK

Climate protester confronts judge over ‘amoral’ order on what jury could hear

Four Insulate Britain protesters appeared at Inner London Crown Court before Judge Silas Reid ahead of their sentencing next week.

The Independent UK

The prisoners who have married behind bars

It is currently legal to marry in the UK if you are in prison but prisoners who want to get married have to apply to the governor of the prison

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