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Ukrainian fighter's wife hopes prisoner swap pans out with Russia

As Ukrainian fighters left the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol this week and ended their dramatic last stand against Russia's siege, Mariia Zimareva tried in vain to spot her husband amid the flood of news pictures being published.

Reuters

Former Marine Trevor Reed on Russian imprisonment: "I wouldn't let myself hope"

"The psychiatric treatment facility, I was in there with seven other prisoners in a cell," Reed said.

Axios

Bill pushes feds to notify families of sick, dying inmates

New legislation in the Senate requires the Justice Department to establish guidelines for the federal Bureau of Prisons and state correctional systems to notify the families of inmates if their loved one has a serious illness, a life-threatening injury or if they die behind bars

The Independent UK

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Inside violent prison where husband killer of Brit mum Caroline Crouch is held

Helicopter pilot Babis Anagnostopoulos, 34, was jailed for life on Monday for murdering his British wife Caroline Crouch, 20, for hanging her rescue puppy Roxy from the bannisters of their Athens maisonette

Daily Mirror

Facing Life: the project showing the cracks in California’s incarceration system

A documentary follows the paths of eight people who served decades of their life sentences behind bars, only to be released with no resources

The Guardian - US

Russian soldier who killed innocent grandad smirks when told of possible prisoner swap

Russian Sergeant Vadim Shishimarin, 21, shot Ukrainian civilian Oleksandr Shelypov, 62, dead with an AK-47 as he pushed his bicycle home in Chupakhivk, just days into the invasion in February

Daily Mirror

SP leader Azam Khan released from prison

Supreme Court on Thursday used its powers under Article 142 to grant Azam Khan interim bail

The Hindu

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Children carrying weapons at most violent prison in England, inspectors warn

A report says there were 105 assaults among children and 82 on staff in just six months.

The Independent UK

Ex-deputy gets 18 years after detainees drown in locked van

A deputy in South Carolina whose police van was swept away by floodwaters in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence, drowning two women seeking mental health treatment trapped in a cage in the back has been sentenced to 18 years in prison

The Independent UK

Veronica Nelson's 'appalling' death in prison cell was avoidable, doctors tell inquest

A panel of medical experts tell a coronial inquest that clear warning signs should have prompted prison health workers to send Veronica Nelson to hospital the day before the Aboriginal woman's death, "without dignity", alone in her cell.

ABC News

Parents convicted in college scam remain free during appeal

Two men convicted of buying their kids’ way into school as part of the college admissions bribery scheme can stay out of prison while they appeal their cases

The Independent UK

Arizona prisoner won’t be executed in gas chamber

An Arizona prisoner is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on June 8 for killing an 8-year-old girl

The Independent UK

Illinois man convicted of giving son rifle he used to kill 4

An Illinois man faces up to three years in prison after being convicted of illegally giving his son an assault-style rifle he later used to shoot and kill four people in 2018 at a Waffle House in Tennessee

The Independent UK

Fyre Festival scammer Billy McFarland released from prison early

Fyre Festival organizer has been moved to a half way house amid early prison release

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The Independent UK

Jailed Egypt activist on hunger strike moved to new prison

Egyptian authorities have transferred a prominent political activist from a maximum-security prison where he was allegedly tortured and denied basic rights to a new correction facility

WEKU

'Pharma Bro' Martin Shkreli has been released from prison

Shkreli, a former pharmaceutical executive known for raising the price of a life-saving drug by 5,000%, was sentenced to seven years in prison for securities fraud in 2018.

The Independent UK

Cody Ackland told he may die in prison for murder of Bobbi-Anne McLeod

The aspiring musician told a psychiatrist that killing the 18-year-old had soothed ‘feelings of depression and resentment’.

Manchester Evening News

Man 'obsessed with serial killers' murdered teen Bobbi-Anne McLeod after snatching her from bus stop

Cody Ackland has been sentenced to life in prison, with a minimum term of 31 years

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Bobbi-Anne McLeod killer's twisted internet search history, how he kidnapped teen and chilling words he told her before murder

Bobbi-Anne went missing after leaving to catch a bus near her home on the night of November 20 2021. Cody Ackland, 24, has been sentenced to life in prison after admitting her murder.

Liverpool Echo

Wife murderer Mitchell Quy to stay in prison over 'drugs and violence' concerns

Quy played out a bizarre game with press and public after he dismembered his own wife's body

The Hindu

Ex-DGP recalls the travails of Arputham Ammal

Jagan M. Seshadri explains how she made it to the fortified prison complex every week

Daily Mirror

Russian singer risks prison sentence by mocking 'our Caesar' Vladimir Putin

The Guardian - UK

‘I got fed up with my students ending up in prison or dead’: the teacher fighting to end school exclusions

Appalled by the damage of zero-tolerance behaviour policies that see ever more pupils thrown out of class, and often education, Zahra Bei founded a campaign focusing on racial justice

The Guardian - UK

Russia says 771 more Ukrainian troops ‘surrender’ at Mariupol steelworks

Injured soldiers being treated in hospital while 900 held in a former prison colony, according to Moscow

Reuters

Vietnam court jails ex-health official amid anti-graft drive

A court in Vietnam on Thursday sentenced a former deputy health minister to four years in prison for his involvement in a trading ring for fake medicines.

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