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Woman tried to smuggle phone and drugs into prison in packet of Maltesers hidden in her bra

Samantha Jewell tried to enter HMP Shotts with a Maltesers bag with a mobile and drugs stashed in her bra. The 32-year-old was caught by guards trying to enter the notorious prison.

Glasgow Live

American given 4-week jail term for slapping crew during plane bomb hoax

An American whose bomb hoax on a commercial flight prompted Singapore to scramble fighter jets was sentenced to four weeks in prison on Friday, after a court found him guilty of causing hurt by slapping a cabin crew member.

Reuters

Brit stuck in Egyptian prison goes on full hunger strike and will die in weeks

Egypt has still not granted the UK consular access to Alaa Abdel Fattah despite British and Egyptian officials working closely together on planning for the climate summit

Daily Mirror

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Salah Abdeslam: Terrorist involved in deadly ISIS attacks on Paris in 2015 gets married in prison

Abdeslam, 33, took part in a ceremony by phone from his high-security cell

Evening Standard

From flipping Big Macs to importing tons of cocaine: Chicago twins who helped bring down El Chapo say McDonald’s was their business model

In a new podcast, Margarito Flores and Pedro Flores say they got jobs at a Little Village McDonald’s when they were teenagers and honed management skills they used in their drug business.

Chicago Sun-Times

Pritzker moves to make abortion more accessible to people in prisons

In removing fees and promising access, Illinois joins a handful of states providing abortions for incarcerated people.

Chicago Sun-Times

MP calls for change in prison release days to stop gangs picking up ex-inmates

Campaigners say curbing Friday releases would cut reoffending.

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Arizona death row prisoner's clemency bid rejected by board

Arizona’s clemency board has declined to recommend the governor commute a man's death sentence to life in prison, keeping the inmate's planned execution on track for his conviction in two 1980 killings

The Independent UK

After Methodist shooting, some police officers, ACLU agree: Ankle monitors don’t prevent violence

DALLAS — After police say a man on parole opened fire in a Dallas hospital, killing two medical workers, the city’s top cop took aim at what he billed a failure of the criminal justice system: ankle monitors.

Tribune News Service

US embassy officials visit Brittney Griner in Russian prison

White House spokeswoman says jailed US basketball star is ‘doing as well as can be expected under the circumstances’.

Al Jazeera

US Officials In Moscow Visit Brittney Griner In Prison, Griner's Wife Speaks With ABC's 'The View'

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Benzinga

Morning Mail: Imran Khan wounded in ‘assassination attempt’, cybercrime threat, Chalmers’s energy pledge

In today’s newsletter: former Pakistan PM survives attack by gunman; signals directorate warns of risk of increased hacking; cost of prison system soars as more women jailed

The Guardian - AU

U.S. officials visit Brittney Griner in Russia prison

State Department spokesman Ned Price said in a tweet that the American representatives “saw firsthand her tenacity and perseverance despite her present circumstances.”

Chicago Sun-Times

Friday essay: 'not for me' – Amy Thunig on the stigma of having a dad in 'lock-up', and the embrace of Indigenous academia

The energy of academic conferences isn’t like your average conference. It is the bringing together of academics from universities all around the country, sometimes around the globe, all working within similar or related specialisations. This means one thing: niche gossip and lots of it. There’s a reason why so many…

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The Independent UK

US Embassy officials visit Brittney Griner in Russia prison

Officials at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow have visited jailed WNBA star Brittney Griner, just weeks after a Russian court rejected her appeal of her nine-year sentence for drug possession

The Independent UK

Couple gets life in prison; wanted in 5 killings in 3 states

A man and his girlfriend suspected of killing five people in three states last year have pleaded guilty to two of the killings in South Carolina

Daily Record

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe joins Downing Street protest demanding return of jailed Scot

The woman freed from an Iranian prison earlier this year joined hundreds of people in support of fellow detained British citizen Jagtar Singh Johal.

The Guardian - UK

For Palestinians, Netanyahu’s victory is merely a changing of the prison guards

There will always be support for the continued oppression of Palestinians, says Yara Hawari, a senior policy fellow at Al Shabaka, the Palestinian Policy Network

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Nottingham Post

Man avoids prison sentence after judge says he has grown up and is looking after his children

"There is every prospect that you will be able to stay out of trouble"

Reuters

France sentences Liberian rebel to life in prison for war crimes

Rights groups on Thursday lauded the conviction in Paris of former Liberian rebel commander Kunti Kamara, who was sentenced to life in prison for atrocities committed during the West African country's first civil war.

Reuters

Brittney Griner faces bleak life in Russian penal colony

Tedious manual work, poor hygiene and lack of access to medical care - such are the conditions awaiting U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner in a Russian penal colony after she lost her appeal last week against a nine-year drug sentence.

Daily Mirror

Joe Exotic moves to new prison after vomiting every day for the past six months

Joe Exotic is moving to a new prison as the Tiger King star continues to struggle with his health, after being placed in remission from prostate cancer, his power of attorney has confirmed

Irish Mirror

Rory O’Connor reveals upcoming RTE show with prisoners in Mountjoy is 'groundbreaking TV'

The new show will air on RTE next spring and sees the Rory’s Stories comedian team up with GAA footballer Philly McMahon to coach a team of prisoners in Gaelic football

The Guardian - AU

Australia’s prisons to cost $7bn a year by 2030 as number of women incarcerated grows faster than men – study

Committee for Economic Development of Australia says bail reform and other measures are needed to reduce prison populations

Reuters

Berlin urges German nationals to leave Iran or risk arrest

Germany's government on Thursday urged its citizens to leave Iran or risk arbitrary arrest and long prison terms there, warning that dual nationals were particularly at risk.

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