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Palestinian Prisoners Prepare for Mass Hunger Strike

The Palestinian Prisoner Club (PPC) and the Commission of Detainees Affairs (CDA) said Friday that tension prevailed among prisoners in Israeli jails after the administration doubled solitary confinement of Palestinians and deployed large numbers of suppression units on the entrances of various prisons. The two organizations confirmed that the Palestinian…

Asharq Al-Awsat

'Mysterious Virus' Threatens Lebanese Prisons

The Lebanese government asked the Ministry of Interior to “conduct an immediate and urgent investigation” into allegations that prisoners died due to an “emerging health condition” in Roumieh Central Prison. Recent reports discussed the reason behind several deaths in the overcrowded central prison, the largest in Lebanon. A security source…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Inside Greater Manchester's 'most desirable village' with secret underground tunnel and a 'haunted' pub

Haigh is home to an amazing adventure playground, former prison and 'psychic nights'

Manchester Evening News

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The criminals who terrorised their partners and exes and were convicted in court this month

A number of defendants have been before the courts during the month of August

Chronicle Live

Wives, Widows of Syrian Detainees Lead Shackled Life

In the decade since Syria’s regime pronounced her jailed husband dead, Ramya Al-Sous was threatened by security forces, locked out of her spouse’s estate and forced to flee abroad. The mother of three, now a refugee living in Lebanon, was never told how her husband died and is unable to…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Pa. man who attacked police on Jan. 6 gets 46-month sentence

A Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to 46 months in federal prison for attacking a police officer with a Donald Trump flag during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot

The Independent UK

Ex-US Air Force sergeant gets life in deputy's killing

A former Air Force sergeant who was linked to an extremist movement and in 2020 attacked law enforcement officials amid protests over the killing of George Floyd has been sentenced to life in prison in the killing of a Northern California sheriff’s sergeant

The Independent UK

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Patrick Daley Thompson’s long rise and hard fall

Sneed: Former alderman, now imprisoned, for his whole life stuck to his ward, his roots, and — most of all — his family

Chicago Sun-Times

Nearly 50,000 People Were Held in Solitary Confinement in the U.S. Last Year, Study Finds

More than 900 had been held in isolation for more than a decade.

Reason

ICE detainees say they were forced into labor in Georgia, file lawsuit

ATLANTA — A lawsuit filed against Georgia’s largest immigrant jail charges the private prison company that runs it broke federal anti-slavery laws by forcing detainees to work against their will.

Tribune News Service

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange files latest appeal in bid to stop extradition to United States

The appeal argues Assange is being prosecuted and punished for his political opinions and for protected speech, and that the extradition request violates the US-UK Extradition Treaty and international law

ABC News

Pa. man who beat officer with a Trump flag at Jan. 6 riot sentenced to nearly 4 years

PHILADELPHIA — A Montgomery County man who beat a Washington, D.C., police officer with a Trump flag during the Capitol riot was sentenced to nearly four years in federal prison Friday — one of the harshest punishments imposed so far for a person accused in the Jan. 6 attack.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Inside a 'tale of greed' in San Francisco: Bribery scandal leads to 7-year prison sentence

Federal prosecutors called it "a tale of greed as old as time" — a powerful San Francisco official at the heart of a web of kickbacks, bribery and fraud that stretched across more than a decade.

Los Angeles Times

'Missed opportunities' at HMP Nottingham after inmate killed by cellmate

"Prison staff consistently failed to execute their responsibilities"

Nottingham Post

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Daily Record

Wife of murdered Perth aid worker David Haines says her pain goes on as Isis killer is jailed

El Shafee Elsheikh was sentenced on Friday in the US for his role in the hostage-taking outrage after being convicted by a jury in April this year

Al Jazeera

Khalil Awawdeh: Palestinian who was on a 172-day hunger strike

Palestinian prisoner Khalil Awawdeh was on a hunger strike demanding Israel end his continued detention without charge.

Dublin Live

Garda anger as thug who beat and left officer for dead walks free after 45 days

Gavin Quinn was released from prison on Wednesday afternoon – and celebrated his freedom with members of his family

ABC News

Former Ravensthorpe CEO Gavin Pollock jailed for using ratepayers' money to pay for sex

Former Ravensthorpe Shire chief executive Gavin Pollock, who used tens of thousands of ratepayers' dollars for sexual services, has been sentenced to two years in prison.

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Gangster facing prison disciplinary charges after allegedly becoming violent after cell booze-up

Scott Capper, a right hand man of Dublin mob boss Mr Flashy before he was jailed last year, is alleged to have been aggressive when warders confronted him over his suspected whiskey and beer binge in Mountjoy

The Independent UK

Philippines inmates protest on prison roof over food, warden

About 100 inmates in an overcrowded jail have climbed atop the roof of a prison building in the central Philippines and noisily protested with clenched fist and placards, saying they are not being fed well and demanding the removal of the jail warden

The Independent UK

Ex-San Francisco official sentenced to 7 years in prison

San Francisco’s former public works director was sentenced Thursday to seven years in prison for steering public contracts and taking pricey gifts in a corruption case that ensnared several City Hall officials and insiders

Salon

Two plead guilty in Biden diary plot

Conspirators in bungled plot sold presidential daughter's diary for $40,000, face up to five years in prison

The Independent UK

Steven Hoffenberg: Who is the former Epstein associate and New York Post owner?

Once one of ‘brashest figures on New York business scene’, Steven Hoffenberg served 18 years in prison before trying to help Epstein’s victims

The Guardian - UK

Dominic Raab made Parole Board’s ‘difficult job next to impossible’

Justice secretary criticised by senior officials after board is ‘last to hear’ about important policy changes

ABC News

Rockhampton woman calls for new laws after death in custody at same prison where brother died by suicide

Devastated at news of another death in custody this month in the same prison where her brother took his own life, Pam White-Row Row launches a campaign to stop more families from suffering.

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