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Glasgow prisoner takes own life after being 'devastated' by jail sentence

Jamie Burns was just 34 when he passed away at HMP Low Moss less than a month after being sentenced to four months behind bars and displaying a catalogue of bizarre behaviour.

Glasgow Live

Driver who killed Scottish vet in crash released from jail after just half his sentence

Thomas Wainwright, who was eligible for parole after serving six years of his sentence, was told he would be released from prison next month following a Parole Board hearing last week.

Edinburgh Live

Paedophile rugby coach John McClean 'as arrogant as they come' in prison as he snubs other inmates

The 78-year-old predator, already serving eight years for abusing 23 boys, is now the most prolific paedophile convicted in the Irish courts.

Irish Mirror

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An evil man cast a shadow over her life... now she has to cope with him getting out of jail

"I have always been very quiet about it. But I feel now is the time to talk because he is coming out and he is dangerous. I firmly believe he is going to do this again, I don't care how old he is. He has waited all this time and…

Manchester Evening News

Katie Piper feels 'guilty' leaving her kids for 'longest' stretch yet to film new show

Katie Piper said it was 'really difficult' to say goodbye to her daughters for 10 days to film her new W documentary, Babies Behind Bars, in which she investigates women who are pregnant while in prison

Daily Mirror

Alex Murdaugh faces fresh misdemeanour charge as his trial for double murder continues

The disbarred attorney’s trial is currently underway in South Carolina where he is facing life in prison

The Independent UK

Detainee at Canberra's prison dies in custody

Police are investigating the incident at the Alexander Maconochie Centre.

The Canberra Times

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A drunk driver who killed Scots vet by ploughing Maserati into her van is released from jail after just half his sentence

Thomas Wainwright, who was eligible for parole after serving six years of his sentence, was told he would be released from prison next month following a Parole Board hearing last week.

Daily Record

Shady siblings jailed for becoming partners in crime

From killers to drug dealers, these siblings followed each other to prison

Liverpool Echo

Sean Keeler: If Russell Wilson wants to save his brand, he has to save Broncos first

DENVER — The best insight into Russell Wilson last week came not from anonymous sources, or an axe looking for an easy grind, but from a guy who watched from prison as Mr. Unlimited lifted the Lombardi Trophy.

The Denver Post

Judge orders ex-jail union boss to be freed in bribery case

A powerful New York jail union boss-turned-prison inmate is poised to go free less than halfway through his sentence in a corruption case

The Independent UK

Criminal turns new leaf after being diagnosed with neurodisability, calls for better screening in prisons

An ex-convict who spent most of four decades in different prisons urges the West Australian government to improve screening for cognitive disabilities in the justice system.

ABC News

The criminals locked up in Greater Manchester this week

Thomas Campbell's killers were among those jailed in our region

Manchester Evening News

Clinical psychologist warns Daniel Duggan’s detention conditions ‘extreme and ‘inhumane’ as wife launches UN complaint

Former US marine’s segregated, maximum security imprisonment is unjustified, wife says

The Guardian - AU

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Daily Mirror

Sexy lingerie confiscated from female prisoners smuggling it in on day release

Female prisoners out on day release were bringing back push-up bras and lacy knickers, which were later deemed to be contraband and confiscated by officers

Daily Mirror

Vulnerable asylum seekers 'prisoners in their own homes' after fleeing war zones

As many asylum seekers say they have been placed in unsuitable properties littered with tripping hazards, an expert blamed the system which she says 'creates a hostile environment'

Manchester Evening News

Rapist from Manchester branded a 'dangerous sexual predator' dies during life sentence at 'Monster Mansion'

Robin Crago, from Withington, was locked up in 2006

Daily Record

Marco Pierre White's son turns to Islam after being jailed for heroin possession

Marco Pierre White Jr, 28, was recently released from prison and has converted to a new faith to keep him off the drugs.

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Daily Mirror

Mega-prison in El Salvador where 40,000 suspected gangsters crammed in side by side

El Salvador has had a problem with gang-related violence for decades, but the South American country's new President Nayib Bukele has promised a crackdown on crime, and has already rounded up 63,000 gangsters and thrown most in jail

Daily Mirror

Mum wakes up screaming at night after horror of seeing son's beaten lifeless body

In a victim impact statement Liverpool Crown Court heard how Michael Toohey’s mum begged for paramedics to save her son as he lay lifeless on the floor

ABC News

Former US pilot Daniel Duggan's 'degrading' Australian prison conditions raised with United Nations

Daniel Duggan, an Australian citizen, was arrested in October by federal police in NSW at the request of American authorities, who accuse him of helping train the Chinese military to fly jet fighters.

Tribune News Service

Jonathan Bernstein: Ex-felons deserve the right to vote

Minnesota this month became the latest state to restore voting rights to ex-felons once they are released from prison. Democrats around the U.S. have been pushing to reduce or eliminate restrictions on voting, in particular fighting to extend voting rights to people on parole or probation. Many Republicans have been…

Evening Standard

Man who drugged and raped woman during campaign of abuse jailed

Frederick Allchorne was senteced to 22 years in prison on Friday

Daily Record

Five jailed for murder of 18-year-old man as grieving mum wakes up 'screaming' from PTSD nightmares

Michael Toohey's was beaten to death by a gang of four men in April last year and his heartbroken mother has been left suffering with nightmares.

Chicago Sun-Times

R. Kelly’s ‘one more year’ is another slight for the R&B singer’s victims

If he survives, Kelly will be an old man when he walks out of prison. I can’t predict the future, but more than likely, Kelly will never have the fame and fortune that allowed him to lure underage girls into a sexual trap.

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