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Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza accused of ‘high treason’

Opposition activist who has spoken out against war in Ukraine faces 20 years in prison if convicted

The Guardian - UK

'Appalling' Audi driver led cops on 100mph chase and caused massive crash

As he was arrested, he said: “I should have stopped, it was stupid. It’s because I’m disqualified, I know I’m going to prison.”

Manchester Evening News

Human rights concerns grow over Ecuador prison riots -U.N. officials

United Nations human rights officials are concerned about Ecuador's prison violence crisis, they said on Thursday, after yet another riot at a Guayaquil jail left at least 13 inmates dead and more than 20 prisoners and police injured.

Reuters

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Brittney Griner’s Wife Recounts ‘Disturbing’ Call From Russia

Cherelle Griner discussed her conversation with the eight-time WNBA All-Star, who is currently serving a nine-year prison sentence in Russia.

Sports Illustrated

Alabama inmates go on strike to protest ‘deplorable’ conditions, unpaid labour

Guards asleep on duty, meagre meals and cells covered in filth: incarcerated people across the southern US state of Alabama have refused to work since September 26 in protest against shocking conditions in overcrowded facilities, including violence, neglect and poor hygiene. The strike has brought prisons, which depend on and…

France 24

Who killed Jeffrey Dahmer and why gruesome cannibal killer was brutally murdered

Following the success of disturbing true-crime series Dahmer - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, Netflix has announced the release of a new documentary on the serial killer

Daily Mirror

US rape suspect Nicholas Rossi to make freedom bid from Scots jail within days

Lawyers for Rossi, who is fighting extradition, are submitting fresh bail application to try and get him out of Saughton Prison.

Daily Record

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Brittney Griner at 'weakest moment' in Russia, her wife says

WNBA star Brittney Griner is at her “absolute weakest moment in life right now” as she faces a hearing in Russia later this month for her appeal of a nine-year prison sentence for drug possession

The Independent UK

Barlinnie prisoner took out 'contract' on rival days before taking his own life

A Fatal Accident Inquiry has heard that Paul Hamilton took out a 'contract' on a rival that he had clashed with inside the prison days before he took his own life.

Glasgow Live

Scots prisoner took out contract on rival inmate days before killing himself

Paul Hamilton had been serving a three-year sentence for bribing a man with £1,000 to drop an assault charge.

Daily Record

WA youth prison could face more lockdowns

Lawyers will seek a Federal Court injunction on the transfer of children to a standalone unit at a maximum-security adult prison in Western Australia.

AAP

Alabama prisoners strike over ‘horrendous’ conditions

Prisoners refuse to work for no pay in prison jobs in food service, laundry and maintenance

The Guardian - US

The 10-year-old boy with an Asbo who went on to be stabbed 27 times with a machete

Alfie Hodgin was one of the youngest people ever to get an anti-social behaviour and went on to have a gang career

Wales Online

Paedophile who worked at Townsville childcare centre sentenced for sexual abuse of nephew and son

The man, already behind bars for his offending, will spend another nine years in prison for what the judge described as "depraved and degrading" crimes.

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Daily Mirror

Cop vows to find bodies of mum and toddler son as killer jailed 45 years after murder

Detective Chief Inspector Brian Geddes says he will arrange a meeting with killer Bill MacDowell in prison after vowing to find the bodies of victims Renee MacRae and her toddler son Andrew

Irish Mirror

First picture of garda killer Aaron Brady behind bars as he welcomes his parents

And our picture is the first of him since he was extradited from the US and snapped outside Dundalk court in May 2017 over a stolen car offence.

The Independent UK

Myanmar court hands Japanese journalist 10-year prison term

A court in military-ruled Myanmar has handed a 10-year prison sentence to a Japanese video journalist who was arrested at an anti-government protest in July

ABC News

Lawyers to file Federal Court bid to halt transfer of children from Banksia Hill to Casuarina Prison

Lawyers are set to file an application to the Federal Court by the end of the week to stop the WA government from transferring children from the Banksia Hill Juvenile Detention Centre to Casuarina Prison.

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Reuters

Latest Ecuador prison riot leaves at least 11 injured

A prison riot in Ecuador's coastal city of Guayaquil on Wednesday has left at least 11 inmates and police officers injured, the SNAI prison authority said in a preliminary report, just days after a deadly riot at another jail.

Chicago Sun-Times

In plea deal, Chicago police training officer gets probation in 2020 off-duty shooting of unarmed driver

Victim’s attorney says he wanted tougher sentence, but Officer Kevin Bunge, who suffers from PTSD, pleads guilty to felony requiring no jail time.

The Independent UK

Life sentence for killer of retired St. Louis police captain

A 26-year-old man has been sentenced to life in prison for killing a retired St. Louis police captain as he tried to stop a pawn shop from being looted during racial injustice protests two years ago

Nottingham Post

Woman who poured human faeces on Sir Captain Tom statue faces prison

Madeleine Budd, 21, has appeared in court

WEKU

There’s a new plan for a prison in Letcher County, and public comment opens soon

WEKU

Jailed under Duterte, Philippine politician sends dire warnings on democracy

Supporters say Leila de Lima is a human rights defender still paying the price for speaking out against the abuses of the former president's drug war.

Chronicle Live

'Mean and nasty' Hebburn woman who stole from two pensioners spared prison in 'mercy' after tragedy

Jean Carr, of Hebburn, was released from custody after a court heard her daughter had died

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