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Nobel winner Byalyatski's wife hopes telegram will reach him in prison

The wife of Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Byalyatski said on Friday that he may not even know of the news, which she tried to break to him in a telegram to a Belarusian prison.

Reuters

Two inmates killed at California state prisons within 24 hours, officials say

LOS ANGELES — The deaths of two men within 24 hours at California prisons are being investigated as homicides, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said.

Los Angeles Times

Scots child killer attacked prison officer over wait for breakfast cereal

Murderer Jordan McCready was left crying over spilt milk on Friday after being sentenced to eight months for the morning attack.

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Detroit man sentenced in killings of 4 women, 2 sex assaults

A Detroit man was sentenced to at least 45 years in prison after pleading guilty to murdering four women whose bodies were found in vacant houses, and to sexually assaulting two other women

The Independent UK

One of Scotland's most dangerous offenders stabbed two guards after prison meal row

Darren Cornelius, 32, admitted stabbing guards at HMP Shotts in Lanarkshire on September 13 last year.

Daily Record

'Most dangerous teenager in Scotland' stabbed two prison officers over dinner row

Darren Cornelius flew into a rage at two guards at HMP Shott as his evening meal was being served and stabbed two men with a 'small white' blade from his pocket.

Glasgow Live

As US pardons cannabis convictions Tories call for it to be classified the same as heroin

Atlantic rift widens on approach to drug laws

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A Pennsylvania prison gets a Scandinavian-style makeover – and shows how the US penal system could become more humane

The United States has the largest number of people incarcerated in the world – about 25% of all people imprisoned worldwide are in American prisons and jails.

The Conversation

Editorial: Hard labor will be death sentence for Pa. man detained in Russia

The Biden administration’s continues to fail U.S. citizen and Oakmont resident Marc Fogel, who was convicted in Russia of possessing less than an ounce of marijuana. In June, a Russian court sentenced Fogel, 61, to 14 years’ imprisonment at a labor camp. On Wednesday, his family announced that he had…

Tribune News Service

Brickbat: Bad News

A BBC journalist has been given a second sentence of three years of hard labor by a court in Myanmar for making contact with an outlawed pro-democracy group. Htet Htet Khine received her first three-year prison sentence on Sept. 15 for violating a law barring incitement and false news. Since…

Reason

Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch 'hadn't a clue' pal Jonathan Dowdall would testify against him until days before court date

A prison source said: ”They were the best of buddies for the last year since the Monk was arrested and brought home from Spain."

Irish Mirror

Dumfries Prison to open its doors for staff recruitment days

The Scottish Prison Service is looking to boost its workforce at several jails across the country

Daily Record

Concern over lunch options at Bulwell Academy that are 'like feeding animals scrap'

"They're getting treated worse than in a prison"

Nottingham Post

Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch 'hadn't a clue' his pal would testify against him

"They were the best of buddies for the last year since the Monk was arrested and brought home from Spain"

Dublin Live

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Jail for repeat child abuse crimes in Tas

A 22-year-old Tasmanian man will spend up to five years in jail for accessing child abuse material days after being released from prison for the same crimes.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Philadelphia issues apology for decades-old prison experiments

PHILADELPHIA — The City of Philadelphia issued an apology Thursday for the unethical experiments a University of Pennsylvania faculty member of 50 years performed on Holmesburg Prison inmates between the 1950s and 1970s.

The Independent UK

Arizona woman seeks leniency in ballot harvesting case

A parade of character witnesses provided a judge with glowing reports about a southern Arizona woman who admitted collecting four voted early ballots in the 2020 primary election as her lawyer seeks leniency

The Independent UK

Philadelphia apologizes for experiments on Black inmates

The city of Philadelphia issued an apology more than four decades after unethical medical experiments were allowed to be performed on mostly Black inmates at the city's since closed Holmesburg Prison from the 1950s to the 1970s

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Judge urges action against ice 'scourge'

Bradley Taylor has been sentenced to 23 years in prison for his violent murder of a kind stranger who invited him inside his home.

AAP

Stomach pains reported before prison death

A Victorian coroner is investigating the death of Clinton Austin after the Gunditjmara and Wiradjuri man died while in custody at Loddon Prison.

The Independent UK

How Biden’s marijuana pardons could change thousands of lives

The plan likely won’t free anyone from prison, but it could help justice-impacted people after they get out

Daily Mirror

Russian professor fired after telling her students jail is better than being Putin's cannon fodder

Olga Lizunkova is accused of saying prison is better than becoming "cannon fodder" to her students who were at risk of being called up under Putin’s mobilisation drive

Tribune News Service

Second Whitmer kidnap plotter sentenced to prison

DETROIT — Kaleb Franks, a central figure in the largest domestic terrorism investigation in a generation who admitted to plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, was sentenced to four years in federal prison Thursday.

The Independent UK

18 months in prison for man who threatened Colorado official

A Nebraska man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for online threats he made last year against Colorado’s top elections official in one of the first cases brought by a federal task force devoted to protecting elections workers across the U.S. who have been subject to increasing threats

Belfast Live

Lisburn FIFA standard football pitches approved

Councillors reassured after concerns over 'prison like' fencing around facility

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