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Locked Up: The prison labor that built business empires

In a joint investigation, reporters from the Associated Press and Reveal at the Center for Investigative Reporting spent months unearthing the history of convict leasing that built business empires

The Independent UK

Washington Steps Up Efforts to Close Guantanamo

US President Joe Biden’s administration is revamping its efforts to close the Guantanamo Bay prison by appointing a senior diplomat to oversee detainee transfers, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. The new special representative, Tina Kaidanow, a State Department official, has been chosen to review the case files of…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Former NY women’s prison detainees pursue lawsuit over sex assault and abuse by guards at closed Manhattan lockup

Like other state prisoners from New York City, A.Q. wanted to be closer to home — so much so she lobbied the state correction commissioner to finish her sentence at a Manhattan women’s prison.

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Michelle Foster's killer hospitalised for homicidal ideation day after release from jail, inquest hears

A man who killed an Adelaide woman in a random attack at a suburban shopping centre was hospitalised a day after his release from prison because he was experiencing homicidal ideation, a coronial inquest has heard.

ABC News

'Isolation, brutality' at WA youth prison

The disability royal commission has heard harrowing evidence about historical conditions inside the Banksia Hill juvenile detention centre in Perth.

AAP

California 'chameleon' awaits 2016 kidnapping hoax sentence

Federal prosecutors say a Northern California woman should be sentenced to eight months in prison for carefully faking her own kidnapping

The Independent UK

Kentucky school shooter imprisoned 25 years seeks parole

A Kentucky man who killed three students and injured five more in a school shooting a quarter century ago has a chance at parole this week

The Independent UK

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Ex-bikie avoids jail for Just Right drugs

A former Mongols bikie says life is going well after ditching gangs and cocaine and has avoided prison after admitting he trafficked cocaine.

AAP

1/3 of foreign prisoners in India lodged in West Bengal jails

KOLKATA: More than one-third of foreign prisoners in India are lodged in different jails across Bengal, the higest in the country. According to recent data released by the National Crime Records Bureau, a total of 1,746 foreign inmates are lodged in Bengal jails.

The Times of India

An Illinois man is serving a life sentence for 6 grams of cocaine. He is fighting to be freed

CHICAGO — Michael Lightfoot is 66 years old. He survived prostate cancer. He has grandchildren and great-grandchildren who love him. He has health problems and doesn’t think he has that much time left.

Chicago Tribune

Mother-baby unit at Tasmania's Risdon prison has been underutilised, a report has found

It is of "grave concern" the unit, which acknowledges the importance of the relationship between incarcerated mothers and their babies, has not been utilised for that purpose, a report finds.

ABC News

Keira Knightley weeps as she's told how RAF bombardier relative was shot down in war

The Hollywood star heard how her great uncle Andrew spent 18 months as a prisoner of war on Channel 4's documentary My Grandparents' War

Daily Mirror

What numbers don’t tell us

Prisons are meant to facilitate rehabilitation but have become disempowering spaces with a mental health crisis

The Hindu

No simple solution to helping voters in jail cast ballots

Each election cycle, thousands of eligible voters are effectively disenfranchised because they sit in a jail cell.

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Chicago Sun-Times

Sentencing, lawsuits and more trials: R. Kelly’s guilty verdict in Chicago won’t end singer’s troubles

The R&B star is scheduled to be sentenced Feb. 23.

Irish Mirror

Evil rapist Simon McGinley in hiding after prison release over fear he will be 'taken out'

Gardai feared Dundalk traveller McGinley would be attacked as he walked from the jail to a waiting taxi

The Hindu

Uttar Pradesh's law and order situation an example for the country and world, says CM Adityanath

The Chief Minister was addressing a function after flagging off modern prison vans for 56 districts under the Police Modernisation Scheme

Dublin Live

Evil rapist goes into hiding after release from prison amid fears he will be 'taken out'

He will be on the sex offenders list

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Daily Record

Lavish wedding of mobster’s moll as couple spent tens of thousands on blow-out at Scots castle

Gangster’s moll Nicola Morrissey’s life of luxury homes, designer clothing and expensive cars came crashing down last week when she was thrown into a Spanish prison cell over alleged links to an organised crime gang.

Daily Mirror

Meet everyday people invited to Queen's funeral from RNLI man to a prison tutor

Some 200 everyday folk are set to rub shoulders with 500 politicians past and present and international royals at the Queen's funeral on Monday and, for many of them, it still has not sunk in...

Daily Mirror

Female prisoners being trained in sheep shearing to help land jobs when released

HMP East Sutton Park is set in 84 acres of countryside near Maidstone, Kent and is now offering training in sheep shearing to female lags to help them get jobs

Liverpool Echo

More than 200 dog owners prosecuted in Merseyside over attacks

Several incidents were so serious they resulted in immediate prison sentences

Salon

MAGA rioter recruits from prison

Timothy Hale-Cusanelli was convicted in May on felony obstruction and four misdemeanors for his Jan.6 involvement

Daily Record

Scots life coach 'lost the plot' before knife frenzy on cops

A sheriff put him under supervision for three years as an alternative to further time in prison, after admitting six charges.

Los Angeles Times

‘A friend in the White House’: Jill Biden tours Homeboy Industries, LA’s renowned post-prison service provider

LOS ANGELES — Mario Lundes greeted first lady Jill Biden at the Homeboy Industries bakery Friday afternoon eager — but nervous — to share his redemption story.

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