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An old political prisoner warns against new Tunisian constitution

Hamma al-Hammami knows the peril Tunisia risks if it slides back into autocracy, as he and opposition parties warn it may do if President Kais Saied passes his draft constitution in a referendum on Monday.

Reuters

Prison criticised after suicide watch inmate who died was allowed razors

Inquest into death of remand prisoner at HMP Chelmsford finds officers were unaware that access to razor blades should have been monitored

The Guardian - UK

Female paedophile who raped two boys posts TikTok videos from prison asking for pen pals

Miriah Vanlith, 43, refused to say how she managed to get the videos on TikTok, but a simple search on TikTok brings up hundreds of Boise prisoners searching for pen pals

Irish Mirror

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Liz Truss accused of ignoring British activist on hunger strike in Egypt

Family of Alaa Abd El Fattah say it feels as if foreign secretary has ‘abandoned’ him since she started leadership campaign

The Guardian - UK

Triple killer Sameer Syed's body flown back to his home in India for family burial

The repatriation move comes despite the fact he insisted his wife and two kids were buried in Ireland against their family’s wishes

Dublin Live

Inmates are desperate to be deported - but it's taking too long, report into HMP Risley reveals

The number of foreign nationals harming themselves has risen at the Warrington jail, says a prisons watchdog

Manchester Evening News

Jailed ISIS bride Lisa Smith will eat and exercise alone in prison after conviction for being a member of the terrorist group

The 40-year-old, jailed for 15 months at the Special Criminal Court on Friday, is the first person to be convicted in an Irish court of membership in another country of an Islamic terrorist organisation

Irish Mirror

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Family of murdered mum Seema Banu and two children hit out after body of triple killer flown home to India for burial

The repatriation move comes despite the fact he insisted his wife and two kids were buried in Ireland against their family’s wishes

Irish Mirror

Prison reform activists demand A/C amid ‘sweltering heat’ within Florida state prisons

ORLANDO, Fla. — On a hot Saturday morning, prison reform advocates and state leaders rallied at Lake Eola Park to bring attention to the thousands of prisoners in Florida who are spending record-breaking summer temperatures without access to air conditioning.

Orlando Sentinel

Maharashtra: Medical care is prisoner's right, says court

MUMBAI: In a significant order, a special court on Friday observed that a prisoner's right to obtain proper medical treatment is recognised as a right under the Constitution of India. The court directed Taloja jail superintendent to take an accused jailed in the scam involving Sahityaratna Lokshahir Annabhau Sathe Development…

The Times of India

Explore one of America’s most “haunted” places that housed the likes of Al Capone

A photographer visited the infamous Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia to document the eeriness of the long-closed prison

The Independent UK

Bernard Hopkins’ Hall of Fame career started with a visit in prison from a boxing ref named Rudy Battle

PHILADELPHIA — The sneakers his mother sent had not yet arrived, forcing Bernard Hopkins to leave Graterford in 1988 while still wearing his state-issued prison boots. He spent five years in prison after being arrested when he was 17 years old. As he left, the warden told Hopkins he would…

The Philadelphia Inquirer

A serial killer who operated in the notorious Texas Killing Fields used his crimes as a bargaining chip to try to save himself

Dozens of murders and disappearances associated with the Texas Killing Fields remain unsolved. But for a handful of families in the area, a serial killer's confession means they finally have answers.

ABC News

Inside Curtis Warren's 'hidden millions' tied up in 'untraceable web'

The former drugs baron served an extra 10 years for failing to pay £197million

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Daily Mirror

Serial axe murderer Patrick Mackay, 69, could be freed from jail before Christmas

Patrick Mackay is the UK's longest-serving prisoner after spending 47 years inside. He was convicted of butchering three people and confessed to killing eight more

The Times of India

Bihar: NIA special court awards 20 years rigorous imprisonment to FICN trafficker

PATNA: A special NIA court at Patna has convicted and sentenced a Fake Indian Currency Note (FICN) trafficker Mohd Ali Akhtar Ansari for trafficking FICN worth Rs 25 Lakh across India- Nepal border via Raxaul in East Champaran district in September, 2015. A Pakistani national, who presently stays in the…

The Guardian - UK

‘You can’t bring my boy back’: why are so many UK prisoners dying on remand?

Garry Beadle was a promising footballer before his life fell apart. Then, three years ago, he killed himself in prison, one of hundreds failed by the system

The Independent UK

New Jersey woman jailed for one year over $400,000 GoFundMe homeless scam

Katelyn McClure is slated to be sentenced on state charges next month and could likely receive more prison time

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Manchester Evening News

Family of paedophile teacher who abused pupils had to ID body weeks after death amid prison failure

Ronald Wotton was serving a 16-month prison sentence when he died of colon cancer

Manchester Evening News

Little girl was thrown to her death from seaside pier by her father

Thomas Nash was seen walking hand-in-hand with his daughter to Swansea pier on a stormy night in 1885, but spotted later leaving without her

The Guardian - UK

Two-thirds of remand prisoners who took own lives were on care plans, FoI reveals

65.7% of remand prisoners in England and Wales who died by self-inflicted means were on suicide or self-harm watch

Daily Record

Scots prison therapist who introduced killers to groundbreaking art therapy dies

Joyce Laing worked in Barlinnie Prison in Glasgow from 1973, pioneering art therapy as a method of rehabilitation.

The Independent UK

Ruling may mean less time for 2 who violated Floyd's rights

A federal judge has sided with two former Minneapolis police officers convicted of violating George Floyd’s civil rights, saying the guidelines for their sentences will be calculated in a way that could mean substantially less prison time for them

Reason

A Houston Drug Cop's Lies Sent This Man to Prison for 25 Years

The case shows how lax supervisors, incurious prosecutors, deferential judges, credulous jurors, and inattentive defense attorneys abet police misconduct.

Miami Herald

Guatemala’s former economics minister pleads guilty to using Miami bank accounts to pay bribes

MIAMI — A former high-ranking government official in Guatemala has pleaded guilty in Miami federal court to conspiring to commit money laundering while paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to Guatemalan politicians through the U.S. banking system.

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