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Gardai probing Kinahan link to attack on Mountjoy prisoner as victim on life support

Robert O’Connor, 34, was rushed to ICU following the assault on Friday evening

Dublin Live

Trump urges judge to throw out Cohen lawsuit, citing ‘absolute immunity’

Donald Trump urged a judge to toss out a civil suit filed by his longtime lawyer Michael Cohen, who claims the former president tried to silence him before the 2020 election by extending his stint in prison for lying to Congress.

Tribune News Service

"Trump deserves life in prison"

"Trump deserves life in prison if my father is in prison for this long"

Salon

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School playgrounds are getting squeezed: here are 8 ways to keep students active in small spaces

As enrolments climb and urban spaces become more crowded, some Australian schools have been left with less play space per student than a prison cell.

The Conversation

Ahmaud Arbery pursuer seeks leniency in hate crimes sentence

The man who initiated the neighborhood chase that resulted in the fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery is asking a federal judge to show leniency when he's sentenced for a federal hate crime conviction

The Independent UK

Brittney Griner appears before Russian court as trial nears end

Defence lawyer says Griner hopes a prisoner swap would enable her to go home.

Al Jazeera

Lout jailed after assaulting three officers just hours after being in court for similar offences

Patricia Hewitt kicked and hit the victims on the same day she was given a community order for attacking a constable and just months after serving a prison sentence for assaulting another

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Garland swears in new US prisons chief in push for reform

Attorney General Merrick Garland has sworn in the new director of the federal Bureau of Prisons, as the Biden administration looks to reform the beleaguered agency

The Independent UK

New York prisons lift ban on book about Attica uprising

New York state prison authorities have lifted a ban on a book about the 1971 Attica uprising following a First Amendment lawsuit

The Independent UK

Federal Government Under Fire Over Conditions at Atlanta Federal Prison

Senators allege Bureau of Prisons officials turned a blind eye to rapidly deteriorating conditions at the U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta.

Reason

Student Claims Her $2,000-A-Month Accommodation Was Like A Prison – With Cockroaches All Over

“It's a lot of money. I have no idea how they are getting away with this. The whole block stinks and there is rubbish everywhere.”

Zenger

Israel's Herzog calls for investigation of alleged sex abuse of prison guards

Israeli President Isaac Herzog called on Tuesday for an investigation into allegations of sexual abuse of female guards by prisoners at a maximum security prison with the encouragement of their superiors.

Reuters

Russia Brands Ukrainian Steel Plant Defenders Terrorists

Russia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday declared Ukraine’s Azov Regiment a terrorist organization, a designation that could lead to terror charges against some of the captured fighters who made their last stand inside Mariupol's shattered steel plant. Russia and its rebel allies are holding an estimated 1,000 Azov fighters prisoner, many…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Ukrainian officials press for information on prison attack

Ukrainian officials say they are struggling to establish the truth surrounding an explosion that killed dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war captured by the Russians following the fall of Mariupol

The Independent UK

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Daily Mirror

Inside student's £1,600-a-month 'prison' flat with broken heating, cockroaches and vomit

Alicia Sowerby, from York, described her accommodation as 'horrendous' and 'like a prison' despite paying hefty rent fees every month

Daily Record

Millionaire facing death penalty after killing wife with shotgun on safari trip

Lawrence 'Larry' Rudolph, 67 - convicted of killing his wife of 34 years Bianca Rudolf - faces the death penalty or life in prison after Monday's verdict.

The Independent UK

‘Black widow killer’ who murdered husband with poisoned curry freed from prison

Police said Dena Thompson targeted men ‘sexually, financially and physically for a decade’

Al Jazeera

Russia designates Ukraine’s Azov Regiment a ‘terrorist’ group

The Supreme Court ruling allows for lengthy prison terms for the members of the battalion.

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Irish Mirror

479 Irish citizens arrested abroad over the last three years according to official records

The Department of Foreign Affairs said not every Irish person who was arrested or imprisoned sought their assistance and there could be cases of which they were not made aware

Daily Mirror

People urged not to approach man with ‘Rylan’ tattoo who absconded from prison

Lewis Peters is currently serving a 12-year sentence for conspiracy to supply Class A drugs, but has been missing from HMP Hatfield prison since July 28

Salon

Whistleblowers and the road to tyranny

Daniel Hale is in a supermax prison for telling the truth about America's drone war. That prison awaits us all

The Texas Tribune

Almost 600 Texas youths are trapped in a juvenile prison system on the brink of collapse

The agency is so understaffed that teens have reported spending up to 23 hours locked in their cells, using water bottles to go to the bathroom. A staggering number have hurt themselves or been placed on suicide watch.

The Texas Tribune

Inspection reports reflect the desperation and danger youths face in Texas juvenile prisons

Visits to Texas’ severely understaffed youth prisons show suicide attempts without intervention, water bottles being used as makeshift toilets, and a rash of possibly gang-related fights.

Reuters

Griner's Russian trial should be over 'very soon', lawyer says

The Russian drugs trial of U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner should be over "very soon", her lawyer said on Tuesday, as the Kremlin warned the United States that megaphone diplomacy would not secure a prisoner swap for the 31-year-old Texan.

The Independent UK

Daughter of jailed Capitol rioter says Trump ‘deserves life in prison’

‘Trump deserves life in prison if my father is in prison for this long’

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