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Journalist detained in China denied calls, partner says

The Australian partner of a journalist who has been detained in China for nearly two years says she is being denied the chance to speak with her family and consular staff, and her health is declining due to a poor prison diet

The Independent UK

Convicted child sex offender and actor granted parole, will be deported to UK

Hughes, 73, was imprisoned in 2014 after being found guilty of 10 sexual and indecent assault offences committed between 1984 and 1990.

The Independent UK

Police hunt convict who failed to return to prison after day release in Bristol

Members of the public have been warned not to approach Sean Phipps, 51, but to call 999 immediately upon seeing him

Bristol Post

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Former US Marine gets 16 years in prison as leader of Mexican drug cell

SAN DIEGO — Angel Dominguez Ramirez Jr.'s turn from a U.S. Marine to the leader of a Mexican drug trafficking cell can be traced back to the night of Nov. 29, 1994.

Tribune News Service

State representative advocates for Uvalde victim’s dad to leave Kentucky prison to attend daughter’s funeral

FORT WORTH, Texas — A state representative is advocating for the father of a Uvalde, Texas, school shooting victim to be able to attend his daughter’s funeral after a report that he was denied compassionate release from a Kentucky prison.

Tribune News Service

After decades in prison, California man innocent of murder

A California man who spent 21 years in prison for a gang murder he denied committing has been declared factually innocent by a judge

The Independent UK

California unveils the US’s first slave reparations report

The recommendations include prison reforms, facilitated access to mortgages and free tuition to state universities.

Al Jazeera

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Former Colombian drug lord Rodriguez Orejuela dies in U.S. prison

Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, a former leader of Colombia's once-powerful Cali cartel, has died in the United States while serving a 30-year drug trafficking sentence, his family said on Wednesday.

Reuters

More COVID-19 outbreaks reported at California prisons, among inmates and staff

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Outbreaks are underway at several state prisons among both inmates and staff, data from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation show, amid a broader surge of COVID-19 spreading across California and nationwide.

Tribune News Service

Federal prison inmate to get gender-affirming surgery: ACLU

Cristina Nichole Iglesias has been fighting for years to have the procedure. She is serving a 28-year prison sentence for threatening to use a weapon of mass destruction.

Chicago Sun-Times

Two Forest Bank prison staff suspended over misconduct allegations

The Salford jail was hit with a damning inspection report this week

Manchester Evening News

Danger driver handed indefinite prison sentence after killing Sunderland mother flees from jail

Alan Paul Steel absconded from HMP Sudbury during the early hours of Tuesday morning

Chronicle Live

Leader of now-defunct Colombian drug cartel dies in US jail

An elderly leader of the former Cali cartel that smuggled vast amounts of cocaine from Colombia to the United States in the 1980s and 1990s has died in a U.S. prison

The Independent UK

Freedom Grams: A Cannabis Brand And Its Open-Source Project To Help Weed Prisoners

By Franca Quarneti via El Planteo. Although in the United States cannabis is a multibillion-dollar industry, about 40,000 people are still incarcerated for cannabis in the country.

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The Independent UK

Grandmother who arranged ‘honour killing’ of daughter-in-law to be freed from prison after 15 years

Bachan Athwal, now 85, was jailed in 2007 for ordering the murder of 27-year-old Surjit Athwal after learning she was having an affair and wanted to divorce her son

The Independent UK

Matriarch who ordered death of daughter-in-law to be freed from jail

The Parole Board has approved the release of Bachan Athwal, now 85, from prison.

The Conversation

Boris Johnson's future: a philosophical exercise for wavering Tory MPs

Former British prime minister David Cameron famously proclaimed in 2010 that the thought of giving prisoners the vote made him “physically ill”. Cameron argued that “frankly, when people commit a crime and go to prison, they should lose their rights, including the right to vote”.

Manchester Evening News

Judge offers drug dealing dad prison - or a chance to change for his son

Joshua Edge agreed to 18 months jail sentence suspended for two years alongside rehabilitation and 150 hours of unpaid work

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The Independent UK

No ‘bad thing’ for prisoners to take part in Jubilee celebrations – Raab

Justice Secretary says inmates could benefit from ‘positive motivation’ to ‘turn their lives around’.

Radio France Internationale

Long delay at Paris terror trial as nine accused refuse to take their places in court

Tuesday's hearing at the Special Criminal Court was delayed for several hours because nine of the eleven prisoners accused of involvement in the November 2015 Paris terrorist attacks refused to take their places in the glass security enclosure.They were protesting in support of Muhammad Usman, one of their number, who…

Manchester Evening News

Mum slashed Next security guards with knife after trying to steal children's clothes

Claire Newman wept as she was sentenced to prison

Liverpool Echo

Judge offers drug dealing dad prison or chance to change for son

Drug dealer Joshua Edge was previously jailed for slashing a dog's neck

The Canberra Times

Ex-gang boss slashed inmate's face with 'shiv' in 'vicious' prison bashing

The former Brothers 4 Life chapter leader wrongly suspected the victim was a paedophile.

The Independent UK

Police hunt convicted sex offender on the run from open prison

Gary Butcher is the second man to have absconded from the open prison this year

Liverpool Echo

Thugs snatched baby girl from mum's hands and threatened to kill her

The thugs also punched the mum in the abdomen just weeks after she had a caesarean section

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