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West Lothian prisoner jailed for stabbing man in street row dies behind bars

The Scottish Prison Service released a statement that a prisoner had passed away at HMP Addiewell last week. The death will be investigated in a Fatal Accident Inquiry.

Edinburgh Live

Russia's Wagner mercenaries halt prisoner recruitment campaign, group's founder says

Having offered convicts a pardon if they survived six months in Ukraine, Wagner Group's founder says the recruitment of prisoners by the military company had "completely stopped".

ABC News

Algeria Sentences Bouteflika's Brother to 12 Years on Corruption Charges

An Algerian court has sentenced the brother of ousted president Abdelaziz Bouteflika to 12 years in prison for "corruption" and money laundering. Algerian news website Interlignes said the Sidi M'hamed court in Algiers has also given a 12-year sentence to two other defendants— businessman Ahmed Mazouz and construction tycoon Ali…

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Russia's Wagner mercenaries halt prisoner recruitment campaign - Prigozhin

Russia's Wagner mercenary group has stopped recruiting prisoners to fight in Ukraine, Wagner's founder Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Thursday.

Reuters

Jagtar's brother demands meeting with MI6 boss on imprisoned Scot's birthday

Gurpreet Singh Johal, from Dunbarton, has accused UK spooks of assisting in the sting which initially saw his brother put behind bars in India

The National (Scotland)

'Octopath Traveler 2’ Preview: One High-Octane Prison Break Is a Must-Play

The best opening chapter in 'Octopath Traveler 2' is a high-octane prison break that sets the stage for the long adventure to come.

Inverse

'Ear Hustle' podcast co-host is free from San Quentin prison

A co-host of “Ear Hustle,” the Pulitzer Prize-nominated podcast produced behind bars, has been released from San Quentin State Prison, a year after California’s governor commuted his sentence

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Nascar driver Kyle Busch avoids three-year prison sentence after gun found in his bag at Mexico airport

A local judge allowed conditional punishment for Mr Busch

The Independent UK

Organs in exchange for freedom? Bill raises ethical concerns

A proposal to let prisoners in Massachusetts donate organs and bone marrow to shave time off their sentence is raising profound ethical and legal questions about putting undue pressure on people behind bars who are desperate for freedom

The Independent UK

2 Indiana men could face life in prison in teen's 1975 death

A judge says two Indiana men could face life in prison if they’re convicted in the slaying of a 17-year-old girl found dead in a river nearly a half-century ago

The Independent UK

California proposal would reinstate prisoners' voting rights

California could reinstate voting rights to felons while they are in prison in a major expansion of suffrage for incarcerated people if a bill currently before the state legislature passes despite an uphill battle

The Independent UK

Man who fatally shot 3 Texas teens in 1998 faces execution

An inmate convicted of killing three teenagers while they slept in a Texas Panhandle home more than 25 years ago is facing execution amid allegations that his trial was marred by racial bias

The Independent UK

Poland summons Belarusian envoy after journalist is jailed

Poland summoned the Belarusian charge d'affaires on Wednesday, a foreign ministry spokesman said, after a journalist of Polish origin was sentenced to eight years in prison in what Warsaw says was a politically motivated verdict.

Reuters

Iraq jails YouTuber, TikToker over 'indecent' videos

A court in Baghdad has sentenced two Iraqis to prison time over "indecent" videos on social media that "undermine modesty and public morality", the judiciary said Wednesday.

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Sports bettor Billy Walters to break silence on ‘long and complicated relationship’ with Phil Mickelson in book this summer

Walters went to prison in 2017 for insider trading but his sentence was commuted by President Trump in 2021.

Daily Mirror

'Gary Glitter has moved in next door... I'm fuming, I've told the kids what to say'

Gary Glitter has been released from prison after serving half of his 16-year sentence having been found guilty of sexually abusing three young girls between 1975 and 1980

Irish Mirror

Evil wife killer Brian Kearney won't get out of jail for several years as he engages with parole board

He never admitted or apologised for her death after he was found guilty in 2008

Liverpool Echo

Man on the run from prison wanted by police

The Huyton man has not returned to HMP Kirkham

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Liverpool Echo

New calls for inquiry to give Cammell Laird 37 'justice they deserve'

Ian Byrne said a public inquiry would "give the victims the justice they deserve" which is "still being denied almost 40 years later"

Daily Mirror

GMB's Susanna Reid intervenes as guest 'incites violence' in heated row about Met rapist

Serial rapist and former police officer David Carrick has been given 36 life sentences and will serve more than 30 years in prison, for crimes spanning almost two decades

ABC News

NT coroner highlights alarming suicide statistics at inquest into death of Aboriginal man Bernard Hector at Darwin prison

The NT coroner gives sobering insight into the rates of suicide in the Northern Territory, telling an inquest into the death of Indigenous man Bernard Hector that the territory is in a "crisis".

Chronicle Live

Pervert's 'nonce hunter' fears came true when he went to meet '14-year-old' at Newcastle hotel and was arrested

Brett Lambert is a 'risk-taking sexual thrill seeker' who went to meet the boy in Newcastle city centre despite rightly fearing it was a trap

Irish Mirror

Convicted killer poses for selfie behind bars in Dublin prison as probe looks into how he got phone

Exclusive: Sources confirmed that Dean Kerrie was issued with a P19 sanction for possession of the phone - after this photo appeared on social media featuring him and a number of other prisoners posing for a selfie inside a cell in Dublin’s Wheatfield Prison.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Sister: Health of French-Irish Citizen in Iran Failing

The health of Bernard Phelan, a French-Irish prisoner in Iran who last month suspended a dry hunger strike, is deteriorating, his sister told AFP on Tuesday. Phelan, a Paris-based travel consultant, was arrested in October while travelling and is being held in Mashhad in northeastern Iran. His eyesight has started…

AAP

Court told terrorist detention order 'likely negligent'

Lawyers for convicted terrorist Abdul Nacer Benbrika are arguing his continued detention after completing his prison sentence is a "deprivation of liberty".

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