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Apprentice Scottish star Reece Donnelly's brother serving life in prison for knife murder

Reece Donnelly has thrown his hat in to the ring for a chance to be Lord Alan Sugar's apprentice. He appeared on the first episode of the hit show on Thursday night.

Edinburgh Live

China: Zhang Zhan’s Prison Letter Offers Hope and Fear

The rare insight into prison life comes over two years after the citizen journalist was handed a four-year sentence. She was imprisoned after covering the Covid-19 lockdown in the Chinese city of Wuhan in early 2020.

The News Lens

Biden signs law to curb costs of expensive prison phone calls, a major blow to a ‘predatory’ industry

Federal regulators will ensure ‘just and reasonable’ rates that fuel a billion-dollar telecomms industry

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Apprentice star Reece Donnelly's brother serving life in prison for violent murder outside Glasgow tower block

Drama school boss Reece Donnelly, 25, appeared on the BBC show for the first time on Thursday night.

Daily Record

Why the arrest of cartel kingpins like Ovidio Guzman fuels drug violence in Mexico

Celebrated as major setback for Sinaloa Cartel, detention of Ovidio ‘El Raton’ Guzman Thursday has already led to revenge attacks in city of Culiacan

The Independent UK

UN disbands prison killings probe in Ukraine over security

The United Nations has announced it is disbanding a fact-finding mission requested by Russia and Ukraine to investigate the killings at a prison in eastern Ukraine controlled by Moscow-backed separatists

The Independent UK

Biden signs bill to ease costs for prisoner calls to family

President Joe Biden has signed into law a bill aimed at easing the cost for prisoners to call family and friends

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Wife murderer to be FREED after historic public parole hearing despite admitting cover-up

Russell Causley made history as the first UK prisoner to face a public parole hearing - he was convicted of killing his 40-year-old wife Carole Packman after she went missing in 1985

Daily Mirror

Prisoner fighting extradition ‘bullied’ by cellmates singing Leaving on a Jet Plane

Nicholas Rossi, 35, says he is being taunted with John Denver song over his possible extradition to the US

The Guardian - UK

Freed teacher Enoch Burke breaches court order by returning to school

Burke had been in Mountjoy prison since early September after breaching a High Court order directing him to stay away from the school. He was released just before Christmas however he was warned by Mr Justice Brian O'Moore that the only threat to Burke’s freedom would be if he again…

Dublin Live

Dad who found daughter Clair Ablewhite dead in her cottage says family 'completely destroyed'

The devastated parents of mum-of-three Clair Ablewhite have spoken exclusively to Nottinghamshire Live after her killer John Jessop was sentenced to life in prison at Nottingham Crown Court on Wednesday, January 4.

Nottingham Post

EXPLAINER: Capitol riot investigation growing 2 years later

The largest investigation in the Justice Department’s history keeps growing two years after a violent mob of supporters of then-President Donald Trump attacked the Capitol

The Independent UK

Beating of restaurant owner lands man six-year prison sentence

During his trial, attorneys for Jinhuang Zheng argued that he was actually afraid of the restaurant owner and had tried several times to recover the money legitimately.

Chicago Sun-Times

In hearing closed to public, former Bolivian minister gets 6 years in Florida tear gas case

MIAMI — A former minister in the Bolivian government who has been in federal custody since 2021 was sentenced to nearly six years in prison on Wednesday for laundering hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes through a Miami bank in exchange for steering an inflated tear-gas contract to a…

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Woman tried to smuggle drugs to her partner in prison using children's drawings

A judge told Chelsea Hill she had done something "incredibly stupid" in hiding drugs in children's drawings and sending them to her partner in prison

The Guardian - UK

UK barber jailed after sending Islamic State thousand of pounds from Covid grants

Tarek Namouz, 43, sentenced to 12 years in prison after being found guilty of funding terrorism

Radio France Internationale

Minister unveils sweeping plans to overhaul France's justice system

French Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti on Thursday unveiled a 60-point plan intended to redress some of the major problems in the sector. The recruitment of judges, simplifying the penal procedure, modernising civil law and the crisis in French prisons are just some of the contentious topics included.

Liverpool Echo

Channel 4 A Place in the Sun fans slam £280k 'prison cell' apartment

Yvette and Agata were looking for their forever home in Portugal

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Liverpool Echo

Prison officers set to stand trial charged with manslaughter after inmate's death

Anthony Paine took his own life in his cell at HMP Liverpool nearly five years ago

Reuters

Mexican cartel leader dies in shootout after mass jail break

An escaped Mexican cartel kingpin known as "El Neto" died after a shootout early on Thursday, four days after he fled prison in a violent mass break-out, authorities said.

The Independent UK

Pilot strangled British wife to death after she found he was drug smuggling, her father claims

Babis Anagnostopoulos was sentenced to life in prison for murdering Caroline while their 11-month daughter slept in the house

Chicago Tribune

She beat the odds to get a college education while in prison. Now free, she seeks to make the process easier for others

CHICAGO — Sandra Brown walked gingerly down a walkway to the side door of Decatur Correctional Center.

Wales Online

Staff at Welsh prison given anti-corruption training after three guards have affairs with inmates

The Prison Service said it will not hesitate to punish those who break the rules

The Guardian - UK

Zimbabwe court denies opposition MP pre-trial bail for fifteenth time

In an election year, critics of the ruling Zanu-PF party are claiming political persecution over the continued incarceration of Job Sikhala

Dublin Live

Killer Gavin Murphy 'quiet as a mouse' after prison death threats

Gavin Murphy is doing a life sentence for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie Poole at her Finglas flat in 2021

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