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'My daughter was taken off me after I started hearing voices and seeing things'

Laura Clement suffered with psychosis through her pregnancy and ended up in prison twice

Wales Online

Almost €5,000 spent on make-up products for prison beauty course

Figures obtained under Freedom of Information show €4,792 was spent on products used to teach inmates how to do salon treatments and hairdressing

Dublin Live

Freed prisoner BEGS for permission to go back to prison to finish off drama course

A convict released from prison asked for special permission to go back inside HMP Channing Wood so that he could take part in an end-of-course theatre production

Daily Mirror

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Prison's $600k body scanners sit idle as drugs and contraband hit three-year high

Expensive body scanners, seen as a key way of detecting drugs and other contraband coming into Canberra's jail, are still sitting unused.

The Canberra Times

Ex-Dublin gangster turned porn star goes from 'gangland to gangbang'

Richard McNally – who is a close friend of killer Brian Rattigan and a cousin of criminal Wayne McNally – said that he had the 'biggest knob in gangland'

Dublin Live

'I was in prison with Tinhead and at Mick Johnson's stag do' - the life of a Brookside extra

Chris Bebbington explains what it was like to appear on the iconic programme

Liverpool Echo

Sturgeon should step in to stop transfer of transgender prisoner, say Tories

Tiffany Scott’s request for a transfer has reportedly been rubber-stamped.

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Nicola Sturgeon told to step in to stop transfer of trans prisoner Tiffany Scott to women's jail

Tiffany Scott, who stalked a 13-year-old girl while known as Andrew Burns, has been rubber-stamped for transfer to a jail that aligns with her chosen gender.

Daily Record

Thai activists risk death to protest the crime of criticising the royal family

Two young Thai pro-democracy activists began a hunger strike in prison on January 18, 2023 to demand the release of several activists arrested for the crime of "lèse-majesté" – that is, for criticising the royal family. Our Observer, their lawyer, told us how this law is often used to silence…

France 24

Convict serving life sentence in Delhi's Batla House encounter dies during pancreatitis treatment

NEW DELHI: Shehzad Ahmed, a convict serving life sentence in the Batla House encounter died on Saturday morning at AIIMS hospital during treatment for pancreatitis, officials said.

The Times of India

Ex-Dublin gangster turns porn star after spending 10 years in prison

Richard McNally – who is a close friend of killer Brian Rattigan and a cousin of criminal Wayne McNally – said that he had the 'biggest knob in gangland'

Irish Mirror

People jailed at Bristol Crown Court in January 2023

Court kicks off new year with another busy month

Bristol Post

Leeds Kirkgate Market traders blast food village plans and say 'it will look like prison and attract drunks'

Market traders fear the shipping-container style 'food-village' will kill trade and put off their customers

Leeds Live

New trans prisoner storm looms for Nicola Sturgeon over transfer of violent stalker Tiffany Scott

Troubled Scott - formerly Andrew Burns - has been repeatedly refused a switch to women's jail until now.

Daily Record

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Jan. 6 rioter who assaulted Capitol Officer Sicknick sentenced to 6 years in prison

Julian Khater pleaded guilty to two felony counts of assaulting, resisting or impeding officers with a dangerous weapon in a D.C. court last September.

The Independent UK

Man gets prison for attacking Capitol officer who later died

A New Jersey man who joined a mob’s attack on the U.S. Capitol has been sentenced to more than six years in prison for using pepper spray to assault police officers, one of whom died a day after the siege

Reason

Texas Death Row Prisoners Sue Over Automatic Solitary Confinement

The state's "arbitrary requirement to house all male death row prisoners in permanent solitary confinement does not promote safety and security, is inconsistent with correctional best practices, and serves no penological purpose," the lawsuit claims.

Chronicle Live

Attacker sent to prison for 22nd time after leaving man with broken nose in Spennymoor assault

Callum Brown, 29, approached the man before pulling him to the floor and delivering punches to his head and body

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The Canberra Times

'Obscene amount' for Nauru contract

The federal government has awarded a $422 million contract for a prison company under investigation in the US to manage offshore detention.

The Independent UK

Spain's govt under pressure to do more on gender-based crime

A spate of gender-based violence, coupled with the early release of several sex offenders, has increased pressure on Spain’s left-wing government, which strongly plays up its feminist credentials, to do more to protect women from abuse

The Guardian - UK

Trans rapist prison case ‘must not lead to blanket rule’, says campaign group

Scottish Trans and Nicola Sturgeon say decisions must be made on case-by-case basis

The Guardian - UK

Andrew Malkinson is still fighting to clear his name 20 years after rape case

After new DNA matched a man on the national database, Malkinson hopes he can overturn his conviction and prove his innocence

The Guardian - AU

‘Without dignity’: how Veronica Nelson’s death exposed cruelty of Victoria’s bail laws

When coroner Simon McGregor hands down his findings on Monday the government is going to have no choice but to act

Evening Standard

Isla Bryson: Scottish college students ‘asked to strip in front of transgender rapist’

Ayrshire College said it had no prior knowledge of charges against the trans woman

The National (Scotland)

Double rapist Isla Bryson enrolled at college while facing charges

A transgender woman convicted of raping two women while she was a man was enrolled on a college beauty course involving spray tan sessions while…

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