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How Angela Scanlon ended up spending a night in a Mexican prison

Irish TV presenter Angela Scanlon has described how she ended up spending the night in a Mexican prison

Dublin Live

Russia says 900 of Ukraine’s Mariupol defenders sent to prison colony

More than 900 of Ukraine’s fighters who had been holding out inside Mariupol’s Azovstal steel plant have been taken to a prison colony, according to Moscow.

Evening Standard

‘Pharma Bro’ Martin Shkreli who hiked price of life-saving drug released from prison early

Shrekli will remain in community confinement until September 2022

Evening Standard

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Scammer Anna ‘Delvey’ Sorokin launches art exhibition to tell ‘my story’

Sorokin, whose story was told in Netflix series Inventing Anna, is moving into art

Evening Standard

Santina Cawley's killer on suicide watch while jail bosses fear inmates will attack her

The 38-year-old was brought to Limerick Women’s Prison on Monday after being found guilty of the brutal murder of the tot in July 2019

Irish Mirror

Musician faces life sentence for murdering teenager

Cody Ackland, 24, will find out how long he will spend in prison after admitting murdering Bobbi-Anne McLeod in Plymouth in November last year.

The Independent UK

'Pharma Bro' Martin Shkreli Is Chilling At A Halfway House After Being Released From Prison

Well-known fraudster Martin Shkreli is hanging out at a halfway house after he was released from federal prison on Wednesday. What To Know: According to several reports, citing Shkreli's lawyer, the "Pharma bro" was released from prison after serving a little more than four years of his seven-year sentence.

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‘Pharma Bro’ Martin Shkreli released from prison early

After his company acquired Daraprim, it raised price of the life-saving drug by 5,000%, prompting national outcry

The Guardian - US

'Pharma Bro' Shkreli freed from prison for halfway house

Convicted pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli has been freed from prison after serving much of a seven-year prison sentence for lying to hedge fund investors and cheating investors in a drug company

The Independent UK

Woman serving life in California prison led $2 million unemployment fraud scheme, prosecutors say

LOS ANGELES — Federal authorities charged 13 people and arrested five in connection with a California unemployment insurance benefits scheme they believe netted at least $2 million under the direction of a state prison inmate.

Los Angeles Times

Man who punched hole in ex-girlfriend's bedroom door with scissors after breaking into her home jailed for a year

Sarah McGavigan was asleep in bed when her ex Andrew Laird broke into her home in the village of Convoy in Donegal in the early hours of June 16, 2019

Irish Mirror

‘Pharma bro’ Martin Shkreli released from prison early to complete sentence in halfway house

Convicted executive had been due for release in September

The Independent UK

Wisconsin man gets 10 years in prison for racist acid attack

A judge has sentenced a white Milwaukee man to a decade in prison for throwing acid in a Latino man's face in a 2019 racist attack

The Independent UK

Assaults on staff by inmates in Irish prisons rose by 30% in 2021

The most number of assaults in an individual prison were 15 – recorded in both Mountjoy and Limerick

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The Independent UK

Man sentenced to 8 years on federal charge after commutation

A man who was charged by federal prosecutors with producing child pornography after former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin issued a commutation for state sex crime convictions has been sentenced to eight years in prison

WEKU

In a war crimes trial, a Russian soldier pleads guilty to killing a Ukrainian civilian

Sgt. Vadim Shishimarin, 21, is facing the first war crimes trial since Russia invaded Ukraine. The Russian soldier could get life in prison for shooting a 62-year-old unarmed civilian in the head.

The Independent UK

Buffalo-area prison officer suspended over meme mocking shooting

Authorities have described attack as act of racial hatred meant to kill Black people

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin uses political prisoners to get even with West, claims Telegram account

In April two British soldiers were told they would face show trials unless Boris Johnson swapped them for one of Putin's long-time cronies, Viktor Medvechuk - who was arrested in Ukraine earlier the same month

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Wales Online

Men threw Ribena bottles containing drugs and mobile phones over prison wall

Mark Baldwin, 39, and Liam McCabe, 25, tried to sneak contraband into HMP Parc in Bridgend

The Independent UK

Stephen Lawrence killer denied request to move to open prison

The application for David Norris to serve the rest of his term in a lower security jail was blocked by Justice Secretary Dominic Raab.

The Conversation

India's employee hostels are often like prisons – but young women garment workers don't always see it that way

Kavitha, 18, earns a living at a clothing factory in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Like many of her colleagues, she lives in accommodation provided by the factory, where she shares a dimly lit hostel room with 16 other women.

WEKU

A former Minneapolis cop pleads guilty to manslaughter in George Floyd killing

Thomas Lane pleaded guilty to a state charge of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter in George Floyd's killing. The state is recommending a sentence of three years in prison.

Daily Mirror

North Korea 'working prisoners to death' to rebuild nuclear testing ground

North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Un is working political prisoners "to death in secret tunnels” in hope of rebuilding its nuclear weapons testing ground, new testimony has revealed

Wales Online

Russian soldier Vadim Shishimarin pleads guilty to killing unarmed civilian in first Ukraine war crimes trial

Sergeant Vadim Shishimarin faces life in prison

Evening Standard

Russian soldier pleads guilty in first war crimes trial of Ukraine conflict

Sergeant Vadim Shishimarin could get life in prison for shooting a 62-year-old Ukrainian man in the head through an open car window in the northeastern Sumy region

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