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'World-class' new Darwin Youth Justice Centre's location next to Holtze prison sparks alarm from co-commissioner Mick Gooda

The NT government says a new facility set to replace Don Dale will take a different approach to youth justice. But one of the people behind a damning Royal Commission into the sector says its location could lead to more 'punitive' treatment.

ABC News

Man who killed woman in random attack may have been crying out for help, inquest hears

A request by an Adelaide prisoner with schizophrenia to move from a high-security jail to a mental health facility could have been a cry for help before he was released and killed an Adelaide mother, an inquest has heard.

ABC News

Kinahan goon Johnny Morrissey caged at high-security Spanish jail where cartel bosses were imprisoned

The nick was once dubbed The Celeb Prison after a number of well-known people were sent there

Dublin Live

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Kentucky school shooter seeks parole in high-stakes hearing

A Kentucky man who killed three students and wounded five more in a school shooting 25 years ago will go before the state parole board on Tuesday in a high stakes hearing that could see him released or denied the chance to ever leave prison

The Independent UK

Victims testify as Kentucky school shooter tries to get parole after 25 years in prison

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Victims who survived a school shooting 25 years ago spoke to members of the Kentucky Parole Board on Monday as the board weighed the possibility of granting release to a man who killed three people and injured five others when he opened fire in a high school…

Tribune News Service

Kentucky school shooting victims oppose 1997 attacker’s parole: ‘There are too many what ifs’

Michael Carneal, now 39, is up before the Kentucky Parole Board after opening fire at a high school in 1997. Sheila Flynn reports

The Independent UK

Judge overturns Adnan Syed’s 1999 murder conviction, releases him from prison

BALTIMORE — Adnan Syed, a Baltimore man whose legal saga spawned hit podcast “Serial,” is a free and innocent man. For now.

Tribune News Service

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Adnan Syed, subject of 'Serial' podcast, is released after his conviction is vacated

Syed was 18 when he was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee. Lee was murdered in 1999 when she was also 18.

WEKU

Timeline of the murder of Hae Min Lee and legal battle of Adnan Syed

Syed’s sudden release marks just the latest twist in a case that has rumbled on for more than two decades

The Independent UK

Serial podcast’s Adnan Syed ‘can’t believe it’s real,’ his attorney says, after murder conviction quashed

Syed has spent the last two decades behind bars for the 1999 murder of his former girlfriend Hae Min Lee

The Independent UK

What Sherri Papini said in court before being sentenced for fabricating California kidnapping

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Before Sherri Papini was sentenced to 18 months in prison for admitting her 2016 kidnapping was a hoax, the Northern California mother of two delivered an emotional statement to Senior U.S. District Judge William B. Shubb in a federal courtroom in Sacramento.

Tribune News Service

US-Taliban prisoner swap: Who are Mark Frerichs, Bashir Noorzai?

US hails release of navy veteran Mark Frerichs by Afghanistan, exchanged for convicted drug trafficker Bashir Noorzai.

Al Jazeera

California woman who admitted to faking her kidnapping sentenced to 18 months in prison

Sherri Papini’s case gained national attention when she went missing for weeks but was found staying with an ex-boyfriend

The Guardian - US

Hollywood Undead's Jorel Decker Says 'If They'll Trade A Russian War Criminal For Americans Locked Up Over Weed, They Should Release All Weed Prisoners In America'

“It’s a love-hate relationship. Any grower can relate to that,” says Jorel Decker, founder of the successful nu-metal group Hollywood Undead when asked about cannabis.

Benzinga

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The Independent UK

Adnan Syed: What we know about two alternate suspects in 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee

The Serial podcast named Ronald Lee Moore, a career criminal and accused murderer from Baltimore, as a suspect in Hae Min Lee’s slaying

Daily Mirror

Convicted murderer hired by Vladimir Putin to fight Ukraine surrenders and defects

Yevgeny Nuhzin, who was sentenced to 24 years in jail after killing someone in 1999, is reportedly one of thousands of prisoners released from prison to fight for Russia's struggling armed forces

Tribune News Service

Doctors rush to use Supreme Court ruling to escape opioid charges

Dr. Nelson Onaro conceded last summer that he’d written illegal prescriptions, although he said he was thinking only of his patients. From a tiny clinic in Oklahoma, he doled out hundreds of opioid pills and dozens of fentanyl patches with no legitimate medical purpose.

Reuters

Russian proxy court in east Ukraine convicts ex-OSCE staff on treason charges

A Russian proxy court in eastern Ukraine on Monday sentenced two former Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) staff to 13 years in prison on treason charges that the OSCE called "inhumane and repugnant".

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Daily Record

Notorious killer pursues parole for second time after 23 years in prison

Craig Belcher brutally killed 22 year old, Kirsty Carver with a hammer at a petrol station in 1998.

The National (Scotland)

Prisoner from Greenock jail escapes while at hospital

The prisoner was attending for treatment at accident and emergency.

WEKU

An American held hostage in Afghanistan has been freed in a prisoner swap

Mark Frerichs, a Navy veteran turned civilian contractor, was abducted in January 2020. His release centered on a prisoner exchange involving Bashir Noorzai, a notorious drug lord and Taliban member.

The Independent UK

Wisconsin governor challenged to stop all inmate paroles

Republican gubernatorial candidate Tim Michels is calling on Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers to halt all paroles in the state, even though a governor can’t unilaterally order them to stop and some paroles are mandated by law

Dublin Live

Prison officer from Saggart appears in court charged with possession of €144,000 worth of drugs

Marta Cypara and co-accused Matausz Kilkowski appeared before a hearing of Tallaght District Court

Irish Mirror

Prison officer appears in court charged with possession of €144,000 worth of drugs

Marta Cypara and co-accused Matausz Kilkowski appeared before a hearing of Tallaght District Court

Axios

Taliban release American Mark Frerichs in prisoner swap

Frerichs is the last American known to be held hostage in Afghanistan

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