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Locking up pregnant women damages mothers and children – yet the UK does it

Some countries have laws against this inhumane practice, which just worsens existing trauma. Why don’t we, asks Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

The Guardian - UK

Uyghur county in China has highest prison rate in the world

In oasis towns and villages by the desert in China’s far west Xinjiang region, over 10,000 Uyghurs have vanished – ripped from their families and sentenced to years, even decades in prison on vague, secretive charges

The Independent UK

Uyghur county in China has highest prison rate in the world

The Independent UK

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Police phone call recordings show relationship between guard Vicky White and Alabama inmate Casey White

Fellow detainees told police that guard had affair with inmate

The Independent UK

Emmerdale fans 'rumble 50th birthday twists' with prison escape and Dingle death

Emmerdale fans have 'sussed' some big moments they think will happen during the ITV soap's 50th anniversary later this year, including deaths and returns

Daily Mirror

NSW government refuses to close legal loophole allowing prison staff to strip-search children

Exclusive: Ombudsman demands response from ministers after recommendation to prohibit fully naked body searches of children was ignored

The Guardian - AU

CCTV camera captures footage of toilet area, G N Saibaba threatens to launch hunger strike in Nagpur jail

NAGPUR: Former Delhi University (DU) professor G N Saibaba, serving a life sentence for Maoist links in Nagpur, has threatened to launch an indefinite fast inside his jail cell if a CCTV camera which allegedly captures footage of the toilet and bathing area is not removed, his family members said…

The Times of India

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Criminals locked up in Greater Manchester this week May 9

Jail sentences are handed out to some of the worst offenders each week. Here are some of the newest prisoners from the region

Manchester Evening News

Blasphemy in Nigeria's legal systems: an explainer

A court in Kano, northern Nigeria, recently convicted an atheist for making social media posts it found to be blasphemous against Islam. After a lengthy trial, Mubarak Bala pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 24 years in prison. The Conversation Africa’s Wale Fatade asked Islamic law expert AbdulRazzaq Alaro to…

The Conversation

Evil serial killer Mark Nash refused transfer from high security Midlands prison to 'cushy' Arbour Hill

Nash will likely die in jail after his application to the European Court of Human Rights over his conviction for the Grangegorman murders was rejected in 2020

Irish Mirror

Black lives and Black death

Marc Lamont Hill on how George Floyd's martyrdom changed America, and why cops and prisons can't deliver justice

Salon

Inside the world’s most violent prison - where inmates are beheaded in horrid massacres

The Maracaibo National Prison, also known as Sabaneta Prison in Venezuela, has been closed for more than a decade but plans to convert it into a museum have brought with it gruesome tales

Daily Mirror

Palestinian Gunman Dies Days after Clash with Israeli Troops

A Palestinian gunman who is the brother of a prominent Palestinian militant died Sunday after being critically wounded in clashes with Israeli forces, according to the Israeli hospital where he was being treated. Daoud Zubeidi was wounded in clashes with the Israeli military in the West Bank city of Jenin…

Asharq Al-Awsat

‘The Foreign Office has forgotten us’: Morad Tahbaz’s daughter speaks out on him still being incarcerated in Iran

He should have been sent home with Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in March, yet Moran Tahbaz is still being held in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison. Now his eldest daughter Roxanne is demanding action

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Glasgow killer serving life in prison ordered gang to murder man in terrifying flat attack

The High Court in Glasgow heard that Robbie Brown arranged for an armed mob to storm the flat where MacKenzie was living and inflict multiple injuries with knives and machetes, fortunately the victim survived the horrific attack.

The Independent UK

Casey White ‘crying’ as prison guard ‘wife’ Vicky White who engineered escape is buried

Vicky White funeral set for Saturday in Alabama

The Independent UK

Prisons: New security technology stops 20,000 smuggling attempts in just two years

Government hails success of new airport-style scanners - but number may raise questions over whether enough is being done to deter inmates from attempting to access illegal items

Wales Online

Drug smuggling British gran waits for execution date

Lindsay Sandiford has been in Kerobokan Prison for almost a decade

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Back from the Dead: Syria Amnesty Releases Prisoners Once Declared Deceased

The recent amnesty in Syria led to the release of prisoners who had been declared dead to their families. The detainees were released following a presidential amnesty for those accused of "terrorist crimes". Sources told Asharq Al-Awsat that the relatives of a man, Z.M., who had been imprisoned for 10…

Salon

Nurse in drug error case sentenced

RaDonda Vaught's case sparked an outcry among nurses who saw her as emblematic of burnout and a broken system

Bangkok Post

Net lift: art and badminton combine to help ex-prisoners

The Thailand Institute of Justice (TIJ) has teamed up with the Badminton Association of Thailand (BAT) to organise an art exhibition aimed at supporting ex-prisoners in their return to society.

The Independent UK

Beefed-up security at prison gates intercepts 20,000 drug-smuggling plots

X-ray scanners and biometric identification have been rolled out in jails in England and Wales under Government plans to tackle drugs.

The Independent UK

Kathy Boudin: Weather Underground radical who reformed behind bars

After being jailed for her role in a fatal robbery, Boudin emerged from prison as a newly transformed social activist

The Independent UK

Vicky White buried in Alabama funeral after 11-day police manhunt for fugitive prison guard

Corrections official died as police caught up with her and her fugitive boyfriend after more than a week on the run

The Canberra Times

More offenders likely to be jailed with therapeutic court list full

Offenders who may be eligible for a therapeutic program, on hiatus, are now facing potential jail as the territory's prisoner costs remain the nation's highest.

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