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Qatar jails four election protesters, including three for life

(Corrects throughout to show three sentenced to life in prison, not two)

Reuters

Attempted murder, fatal stabbing and an ex’s mystery ‘suicide’: Casey White’s long history with the law before jail breakout with prison guard lover

The suspected murderer recaptured after 10 days on the run has been involved in a series of crimes and suspected offences, writes Rachel Sharp

The Independent UK

Prison guard Vicky White was mastermind behind jailbreak plot, says sheriff

Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton said the former prison guard was ‘basically the mastermind behind the whole plan’

Evening Standard

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Ex-police constable facing jail over string of racist WhatsApp messages

Former prison officer James Watts admitted sending 10 grossly offensive to ex-colleagues who worked at a Warwickshire jail.

The Independent UK

Alan Carr says ex-husband called him from prison as he jokes about marital split on tour

Alan Carr, 45, joked that his ex-husband called him from prison to moan about the quality of the bed sheets. The pair split after 14 years and Paul was sentenced following drink driving offences

Daily Mirror

Convicted killer on the run in Texas after stabbing guard and escaping during prison transfer

A huge manhunt is now underway to find Gonzalo Lopez, a 46-year-old convicted of capital murder

The Independent UK

Mother of Egyptian-British activist expresses fears over hunger strike

The mother of a renowned Egyptian activist who recently gained British citizenship says she fears she may not see him alive again as he approaches the end of the sixth week of a hunger strike over prison conditions.

Reuters

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Search continues for Texas inmate who escaped prison bus

The search continues for a Texas inmate serving a life sentence for murder who escaped from a transport bus after stabbing the driver

The Independent UK

Egypt Sentences 25 Convicts to 15 Years in Prison in Rabaa Al-Adawiya Case

An Egyptian court issued verdicts against 26 suspects on Thursday over the dispersal of the 2013 Rabaa al-Adawiya protest. Egypt's Court of Cassation sentenced 25 to 15 years in prison and one to five years in jail, while acquitting 12 others. The charges include organizing or participating in a sit-in…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Robber with links to Bristol wanted on recall to prison - call 999 if you see him

He has links to South Bristol and the city centre

Bristol Post

Former Dumfries Prison governor ditches working with convicts to step into politics

Linda Dorward has been elected to serve on Dumfries and Galloway Council in the latest twist in a very interesting career

Daily Record

Levi Bellfield's fiancée - How the couple met as killer asks for permission to marry

Milly Dowler murderer and serial killer Levi Bellfield had found love in prison and wants to marry ‘besotted’ blonde

Chronicle Live

Woman hammered pal over the head with meat cleaver after rowing about £20

Zara Roberston, 36, hit her friend over the head multiple times - she pleaded guilty at Manchester Crown Court to wounding with intent and racially aggravated harassment and was jailed for five years and 10 months in prison

Daily Mirror

Drug courier jailed after "important role" in Paisley transfer of cocaine

Appeal judges sentenced Graham Curran to three years imprisonment after he was previously ordered to carry out unpaid work

Daily Record

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Daily Mirror

GMB viewers sickened after guest defends serial killer Levi Bellfied's marriage plans

Heike Phelan appeared on Good Morning Britain following the news that serial killer Levi Bellfield

The Independent UK

‘Guess what happened?’ Criminal taunted police by posting ‘catch me if you can’ under wanted appeal

Jordan Carr was sentenced at Guildford Crown Court on Thursday after police took up his challenge

Asharq Al-Awsat

China Database Reveals the Thousands Detained in Xinjiang

A leaked list of thousands of detained Uyghurs has helped Nursimangul Abdureshid shed some light on the whereabouts of her missing family members, who have disappeared in China's sweeping crackdown on Xinjiang. Researchers estimate over one million Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim minorities are being held in a secretive network…

The Independent UK

Victim's sister pours out grief after Clarence Dixon's death

Leslie James stepped up to a podium at the Arizona state prison complex in Florence and tearfully told the world all that Clarence Dixon had taken

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Redacted Justice Action newsletter will be allowed in SA prisons, following agreement with corrections department

The Justice Action group had lodged a Supreme Court challenge against the SA corrections department's ban of its newspaper, which has information about prisoner rights, voting, and policies of political parties.

Daily Record

Cops who photographed murdered sisters at crime scene 'attacked in prison'

Former police officers Deniz Jaffer, 48, and Jamie Lewis, 33, had been assigned to guard the crime scene after Bibaa Henry, 46, and Nicole Smallman, 27, were found dead in bushes in June 2020.

Daily Record

Mum who hid drugs in bra to give to murderer son in prison has been jailed

Lyndsey Ryan was caught trying to hand over drugs to her son Jack Ryan, who is serving time behind bars for murder.

AAP

Guard lied to prisoner about getting help

A prison guard lied to Indigenous woman Veronica Nelson about getting a nurse to help her, before she died in her cell in 2020.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Pa. man who shot up a Democratic Committee office after Trump’s loss will spend 3 years in prison

PHILADELPHIA — An Eagleville man was sentenced to just over three years in federal prison Thursday on charges brought after he drunkenly fired shots into Montgomery County Democratic Committee headquarters last year in protest of what he believed was the stolen 2020 presidential election.

The Independent UK

Experts: Arizona executioners took too long to insert IV

The first execution in Arizona in nearly eight years was carried out more smoothly than the state’s last use of the death penalty, when a condemned prisoner who was given 15 doses of a two-drug combination gasped for air hundreds of times over nearly two hours

The Independent UK

High-profile prisoners who have married behind bars as serial killer Levi Bellfield asks to wed

Former justice secretary says it ‘cannot be right’ that Milly Dowler’s killer should get to marry

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