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Victorian crime boss Tony Mokbel taken from prison to hospital

Convicted drug trafficker and crime boss Tony Mokbel has been taken to hospital from Victoria's maximum-security Barwon Prison for unknown reasons.

ABC News

Number of imprisoned veterans concerns former defense chiefs

Two former Iraq and Afghanistan War-era defense secretaries are recommending that the government consider new ways to ensure that military service is taken into account when courts prosecute former service members

The Independent UK

Former Sweetie Pie’s star Timothy Norman sentenced to life in prison for plotting nephew’s murder

The disgraced reality TV star and his nephew, 21-year-old Andre Montgomery, both starred in the long-running OWN show

The Independent UK

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SCOTUS Questions the Government's Absurdly Broad Definition of 'Aggravated Identity Theft'

According to the Justice Department's reading of the law, the crime need not involve impersonation or even fraud.

Reason

Prison term for man who left victim with huge wound after 'savage' slashing in Dublin

In his statement to gardai, the victim said he had no memory of the attack and only remembers waking up in the Mater Hospital with his face “ripped apart”

Irish Mirror

How love and rebellion helped queer convicts form unbreakable bonds in Van Diemen's Land

In 1997, Tasmania became the last Australian state to decriminalise sex between men, and one activist believes that enduring homophobia can be directly traced to the penal colonies of the island's past.

ABC News

Innocent man freed 38 years after imprisonment for murder as DNA test reveals another suspect

Maurice Hastings walked out of court a free man on Wednesday nearly four decades after being imprisoned for a murder he did not commit

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Man proved innocent after spending 38 years behind bars for murder he didn't commit

Maurice Hastings was released from prison after DNA was proven not to be his last year in Los Angeles, US. His request for a DNA test back in 2000 had been rejected

Daily Mirror

Leetona has relived her son's final moments for years — an inquiry left her with more questions than answers

David Dungay Jr died while being restrained by corrective officers in a cell at Long Bay Prison Hospital in 2015 — now his family is trying to help others navigate NSW's "overburdened" coronial system.

ABC News

Man jailed for brutal murder found hiding in Scotland after going on the run

Paul Gerrard, 40, absconded from open prison in December

Liverpool Echo

Police issue appeal to help trace Oldham man wanted on recall to prison

Lewis O'Connor has links to Oldham and Stalybridge

Manchester Evening News

Prison sentence for builder who charged victims thousands for 'little or no work'

Director of Sibley's Solutions Ltd, James Sibley, received a total of £34,290.77 from his victims

Wales Online

Rehab on hold: COVID devastated prison learning programs

In a nation that incarcerates roughly 2 million people, the coronavirus pandemic was a nightmare for prisons

The Independent UK

Inside abandoned 'Alcatraz' home to murderers including killer who butchered 100

The abandoned Islas Marias prison, once dubbed Mexico's answer to Alcatraz, was almost impossible to escape thanks to its remote island location surrounded by shark-infested waters

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The Conversation

Understanding mass incarceration in the US is the first step to reducing a swollen prison population

The incarceration rate in the United States fell in 2021 to its lowest levels since 1995 – but the U.S. continues to imprison a higher percentage of its population than almost every other country.

The Denver Post

Soap or a phone call? Colorado lawmakers want to make prison phone calls free so families don’t have to choose

DENVER — Norman Vasquez often has to choose between buying soap or calling his family while serving time at Colorado’s Arkansas Valley Correctional Facility.

Reuters

Russian parliament backs tougher, wider law on 'discrediting' the army

Russia's lower house of parliament on Thursday gave its initial backing to a law that would bring in longer prison sentences for anyone deemed to have discredited the Russian army and extend the legislation to cover the Wagner mercenary force.

Edinburgh Live

Edinburgh prisoner tries to get legal aid to appeal his conviction against murder

Beggs, who has so far cost the taxpayer more than £1 million in legal challenges, wanted taxpayers' money to force police to reveal information about their investigation into him.

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Bill Torpy: Jan. 6 ‘Kid’ faces prison due to a lapse from reality

Through the decades, I’ve sat in many courtrooms watching teary-eyed families stand before judges to beg for mercy on behalf of a convicted defendant.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Bill on ‘Executing Prisoners’ Passes Preliminary Knesset Vote

The Knesset on Wednesday advanced a bill to impose the death penalty on Palestinian captives, approving it in its preliminary reading. The primary legislation stipulates that courts will be able to impose the death penalty on those who have committed a nationalistically motivated murder of an Israeli. According to the…

Radio France Internationale

French woman 'obsessed' with joining Islamic State in Syria jailed for 12 years

A Paris court sentenced a French woman to 12 years in prison for two stays in Syria and territory controlled by the Islamic State armed group

AAP

Ex-police prosecutor loses attempt to reduce sentence

A man who prosecuted sex offenders for Victoria Police while secretly filming a woman and teenage girl undressing will remain in prison after he lost an appeal.

ABC News

Maurice Hastings, who was wrongly imprisoned for decades over 1983 murder, declared 'factually innocent' by US judge

Having spent decades behind jail for a murder he did not commit, Maurice Hastings is declared innocent of murder by a Los Angeles judge.

The Independent UK

LA man imprisoned for decades declared factually innocent

A Los Angeles man who spent more than 38 years behind bars for a 1983 murder he did not commit has been declared factually innocent

Wales Online

Sirhan Sirhan who assassinated Robert F Kennedy in 1968 is denied parole

California board decide that the 78-year-old prisoner is not fit to be freed from prison yet

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