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Irish Prison Service abandoned project to electronically tag prisoners after spending more than €850,000

An internal paper said when the project had first begun, it was hoped major savings could be made

Irish Mirror

Russian court: US basketball star Griner guilty

KHIMKI (RUSSIA): Russian prosecutors on Thursday requested that United States basketball star Brittney Griner be sentenced to nine and a half years in prison on drug smuggling charges.

Bangkok Post

Russian prosecutors demand more than nine years in jail for Brittney Griner

Verdict on case of US basketball player expected on Thursday evening, says her lawyer

The Guardian - UK

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Former Mountjoy governor says death of a prisoner can 'lower morale' and is 'upsetting for staff and inmates'

John Lonergan said that prisoners should expect that their safety is guaranteed

Irish Mirror

Brittney Griner's lawyers ask Russian court to acquit her

The defence team of U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner asked a Russian court to acquit her of drug charges on Thursday that could see her sentenced to up to 10 years in prison.

Reuters

Vile yob throttled girlfriend and put pillow over her face

Tyler Lowe had just been released from prison after an earlier attack on the same woman

Liverpool Echo

Maxine Carr 20 years after Soham murders as she has 'white wedding, husband and baby'

Carr, who worked as a teaching assistant at the little girls' school, was jailed for 42 months and released from Foston Hall prison in Derbyshire in May 2004 after serving half her sentence.

Daily Record

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‘It looks like a prison’: Backlash over flagship building dubbed ‘Radcliffe rustbucket’

'It offends my eyes which is is ironic because it looks like a place to house offenders'

Manchester Evening News

Ex-England player Faye Dunn facing prison after Manchester Airport sting

Faye Dunn was detained as part of a police crackdown into EncroChat

Manchester Evening News

Russia accused of planting prison attack evidence, watchdog appeals for nuclear plant access, and Ukraine's worsening health crisis

US officials claim Russia is fabricating evidence over a deadly prison strike, the UN's nuclear watchdog pleads for access to Europe's largest nuclear power plant, and medics fear an emergency of public health.

ABC News

Sunderland dad terrified ex-partner with fake gun before smearing excrement inside cell

Dylan Walt, 26, was given a 14 month prison sentence

Chronicle Live

As Victoria's incarceration rate rises, children of jailed parents are 'invisible victims', report says

Thousands of Victorian children whose parents have been imprisoned face development issues and trauma and can be caught up in intergenerational patterns of incarceration, a report from a parliamentary committee has found.

ABC News

Fraudster lands in jail after stealing identity to escape South Australian authorities

In a letter written to a friend from prison, a fraudster described his two-week road trip funded by stolen credit cards as "the best 20 days" of his life.

ABC News

Calls to end Assange 'slow-motion' murder

Julian Assange's brother and father are calling for help to end the Wikileaks founder's incarceration in Belmarsh prison in the United Kingdom.

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Bail laws need to change to reduce harm to children, Victorian inquiry finds

Parental incarceration can interrupt childhood development and affects wellbeing, report finds

Chronicle Live

County Durham woman threatened to burn down carer's home within hours of prison release

Laura Walker, 34, went to a full-time carer's home and made terrifying threats to burn her house down

Dublin Live

Prisoner killed in Mountjoy was moved after previously being assaulted days before fatal attack

Gardai are now treating the investigation as a murder inquiry after O’Connor’s life support machine at the nearby Mater Hospital was switched off in the early hours of yesterday morning

Irish Mirror

Mountjoy prisoner killed in assault had been attacked just two days earlier on different wing

Gardai are now treating the investigation as a murder inquiry after O’Connor’s life support machine at the nearby Mater Hospital was switched off in the early hours of yesterday morning.

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The Guardian - UK

Russia-Ukraine war: Kyiv calls Amnesty report that says Ukrainian forces are putting civilians at risk a ‘perversion’ – as it happened

Kyiv hits back after charity says Russia’s attacks ‘unjustifiable’ but Ukraine’s tactics are endangering civilians. This live blog is closed

AAP

Dad may avoid prison over son's ATV death

Christopher Browne should be given significant community work to punish him for the death of his two-year-old son in an ATV crash, prosecutors say.

Daily Record

Gangster linked to Daniel crime clan 'behind sex attacks on inmates who owe debt'

prisoner claims drug baron uses sex attacks as punishment for falling into debt

The Independent UK

US says Russia aims to fabricate evidence in prison deaths

U.S. officials believe Russia is working to fabricate evidence concerning last week’s deadly strike on a facility housing prisoners of war in a separatist region of eastern Ukraine

ABC News

NCA bomber Domenic Perre loses appeal against conviction for spitting on police officer

Domenic Perre — the man found guilty over a deadly parcel bomb attack on the National Crime Authority in Adelaide nearly three decades ago — loses a bid to overturn a guilty verdict for spitting at a police officer in prison.

The Conversation

'Decolonising' classrooms could help keep First Nations kids in school and away from police

The recent decision to transport juvenile offenders into an adult maximum-security prison in Western Australia shows the youth justice system is in crisis. The findings of the Don Dale Royal Commission, and the landmark Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody were uncomfortably similar, even though being held almost three…

The Independent UK

Animal sanctuary owner charged for refusing to return cows to beef farm

Tracy Murphy could face up to seven years in prison if convicted

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