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DA: Death row inmate should get new trial over judge's bias

A Jewish death row inmate who was part of a gang of prisoners who fatally shot a police officer in 2000 after they had escaped is one step closer to getting a new trial after prosecutors have agreed with defense claims that the judge who presided over his case held…

The Independent UK

The Guardian view on indefinite sentences: still blighting thousands of lives

Editorial: Prisoners detained under the abolished imprisonment for public protection scheme deserve justice

The Guardian - UK

14 guards indicted on misconduct charges at women's prison

Fourteen prison guards have been indicted on charges including misconduct and assault stemming from what authorities have said was an assault on inmates at New Jersey's only state prison for women

The Independent UK

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Human rights lawyer in Israeli prison goes on hunger strike

Salah Hamouri stages protest against being imprisoned without charge for the last six months

The Guardian - UK

Three years ago he was in prison. Now he's poised to be Brazil's next president

NOVA IGUACU, Brazil — Three years ago, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was languishing in a prison cell.

Los Angeles Times

Scots cons on evil killer Alexander Pacteau's wing 'rioted over missing mail'

Kilmarnock Sheriff Court heard it took around 50 prison guards to restore order at Kilmarnock Prison.

Daily Record

Government has two months to stop barristers’ strike or defendants must be released from prison, High Court rules

Judges rule that custody time limits can currently be extended but ‘this will not remain the position for long’

The Independent UK

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The story of one US governor’s historic use of clemency: ‘We are a nation of second chances’

Kate Brown has granted more commutations or pardons than all of Oregon’s governor from the last 50 years combined

The Guardian - US

Sexist Alex Belfield videos still on YouTube despite prison sentence

YouTube has not issued any comment on the videos

Nottingham Post

Drug driver jailed for deliberately crashing car into pensioner’s bungalow

Micheal Vose, 40, was sentenced to four years in prison at Bolton Crown Court on Monday

The Independent UK

Father jailed for five years in Iran urges UK Government to act after protests

Anoosheh Ashoori will run the London Marathon for Amnesty International UK – a task he started preparing for while imprisoned.

The Independent UK

Editorial: Solitary confinement is torture. Gov. Newsom can limit it in California

Extended solitary confinement in California prisons was supposed to have ended, for all practical purposes, after a 2015 legal settlement in a case brought by plaintiffs who had been held in isolation for 10 years or longer in the security housing unit at Pelican Bay State Prison, near Crescent City.

Los Angeles Times

Glasgow nurse killer Alexander Pacteau too sick for court is cleared of prison riot

He was accused of clashing with police and prison officers while serving life for murdering Karen Buckley then trying to dispose of her body in a bath of caustic soda in his Kelvindale flat.

Glasgow Live

Investigation launched after Stephen Lawrence killer David Norris ‘takes selfies from cell’

It is understood the Prison Service is conducting cell searches, while working to have any social media accounts linked with David Norris shut down.

Evening Standard

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Manchester Evening News

Parliamentary committee says IPP sentences are "irredeemably flawed" and demands change

"After a decade of inertia the status quo cannot be allowed to continue.”

ABC News

Drug traffickers to face possibility of life in prison after loophole in SA drug laws closed

A loophole in South Australia's drug laws that could have seen serious criminals charged with lesser offences is closed.

The Guardian - UK

Call to re-sentence 3,000 prisoners trapped under indefinite jail terms

Inmates in England and Wales still held under ‘imprisonment for public protection’ scheme scrapped 10 years ago

Daily Record

Acid bath killer Alexander Pacteau cleared over staging violent Scots jail riot

The 28-year-old was charged with being part of a gang of six who terrorised prison guards and police officers.

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Reuters

Ship captains held by Indonesian navy decry bribes and betrayal

Plagued by mosquitoes at night and marauding monkeys by day, ship captain Glenn Madoginog was held for months at an Indonesian naval base before ending up in a cramped prison cell, sleeping alongside convicted murderers and child rapists.

The New Daily

Shakira to face trial over tax fraud

Shakira has been accused by Spanish prosecutors of failing to pay $21.6 million in taxes and faces an eight-year prison sentence.

The Independent UK

Capitol rioter, a ‘one man wrecking ball,' gets 7-year term

An Iowa man who admitted to taking part in the assault of a police officer as part of his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol was sentenced to seven years in prison Tuesday after the judge called him one of the most serious offenders on…

The Independent UK

Inmate serving life for fatal Vegas bombing escapes prison

A 42-year-old convicted bombmaker serving life in prison for a deadly 2007 explosion outside a Las Vegas Strip resort has escaped from a Nevada state prison

Daily Mirror

Prisoners on indeterminate sentences should be re-sentenced, cross-party MPs say

Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentences were introduced to prevent serious offenders being released when still a danger to the public.

The Independent UK

MPs call for an overhaul of IPP jail sentences

The Commons Justice Committee said all prisoners serving an Imprisonment for Public Protection sentence should have their term reviewed and replaced.

The Guardian - UK

Investigation launched after killer of Stephen Lawrence reportedly obtains smartphone in prison

Ministry of Justice investigating alleged security breach that allowed David Norris to send selfies to friends

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