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Brian Thornton wins The Conversation Prize for writers for his story Convicting the Innocent

Congratulations to Brian Thornton from Winchester University who is the 2025 winner of The Conversation Prize for writers, for his story Convicting the Innocent, a look at the systemic barriers facing people wrongly convicted of a crime.

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Convicting the innocent: how a rotten system ensures miscarriages of justice will continue

The following story is the winner of The Conversation Prize for writers, a competition run in partnership with Faber and Curtis Brown. Read more about the competition here.

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Three judges announced for The Conversation Prize for writers

The Conversation UK, Curtis Brown and Faber are pleased to announce our three judges for The Conversation Prize for writers: Miriam Frankel, senior science editor at The Conversation UK, Priya Atwal, historian, broadcaster and community history fellow at the University of Oxford, and Alice Hunt, professor of early modern literature…

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The Conversation Prize for writers, in partnership with The Curtis Brown Group and Faber

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Kelly Siegler: Trading Favors

Two men convicted by Kelly Siegler uncovered the dark secret to her success. From the Intercept's Jordan Smith and Liliana Segura.

Texas Observer

Suspect sought in theft of Rockford funeral home van with body inside is arrested in Green Bay

Deon Howard is charged with unlawful possession of a stolen vehicle, abuse of a corpse in the theft of a funeral home van containing a body that was found in Chicago.

Chicago Sun-Times

“We thought we would never find him.” Family seeks answers from Rockford funeral home after van holding man’s body was stolen

“I was thinking what are they trying to do, steal his organs or something like that,” Ed Brown said. Curtis Brown’s body was found Monday on a South Chicago street.

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Body of Rockford man whose body was stolen in funeral home van is identified

Curtis Brown died of natural causes Friday, authorities say. HIs body was in the cargo area of a van stolen in Rockford. The body was found on a Chicago street.

Chicago Sun-Times

Inmate planned to use stimulus check to pay hit man to kill Florida judge, feds say

A Florida prison inmate pleaded guilty to engineering a murder-for-hire plot that would have used federal stimulus money to pay for killing a judge and his family, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Middle District of Florida.

Tribune News Service

Derriaghy skipper Curtis Bown keeping title powder dry ahead of run-in

“We’ve kept seven clean sheets from our last 10 and that gives us a big boost and you never know, fingers crossed."

Belfast Live

Phoebe Frances Brown, ‘frank and funny’ actor and writer, dies aged 29

The Nottingham-born playwright wrote and starred in The Glad Game, a one-woman show about her diagnosis with incurable cancer

The Guardian - UK

Phoebe Frances Brown death: The Glad Game star and writer dies aged 29

Brown’s one-woman show ‘The Glad Game’ charted her experience of being diagnosed with an incurable brain tumour

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