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‘I’ll tackle Rox if he tries to go to Egypt’: Richard Roxburgh, Peter Greste and 400 days in a Cairo prison

Greste’s harrowing experience of the Egyptian legal system is brought to the screen in The Correspondent, which takes its audience far beyond the familiar nightly news bulletins of 2014

The Guardian - AU

Judge directs administration to take all available steps for return of mistakenly deported man

A federal judge is directing the Trump administration to “take all available steps to facilitate the return” of a Maryland man who was mistakenly sent to a notorious El Salvador prison

The Independent UK

Tommy Robinson claims prison is ‘making him ill’ as he appeals 18-month jail term

The far-right activist, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, has access to a laptop, emails and four hours of social phone calls per day inside HMP Woodhill

The Independent UK

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American Prisons Don't Work. California Is Trying Something That Might.

What America can learn from prisons in Norway and Sweden.

Reason

The Evin Prison Bakers’ Club by Sepideh Gholian review – like no recipe book you’ve ever read

A political prisoner lifts the lid on the hardships and fantasies of inmates in Iran’s most notorious jail

The Guardian - UK

South Carolina prepares for second firing squad execution

A firing squad is set to kill a South Carolina inmate

The Independent UK

What the Supreme Court’s ruling on man wrongly deported to El Salvador says about presidential authority and the rule of law

The Supreme Court on April 10, 2025, unanimously upheld the lower court order directing the Trump administration to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego García, a Maryland man who was wrongly deported to a maximum security prison in El Salvador.

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SCOTUS orders return of deportee

Maryland father Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been stuck in an El Salvadorian prison since last month

Salon

Supreme Court orders Maryland dad Kilmar Abrego Garcia returned to US from El Salvador prison

Trump administration admitted sending him to notorious prison was ‘administrative error’

The Independent UK

Palestinian Ahmad Manasra released from Israeli prison after nine years

Ahmad Manasra, 23, has been released after completing nine-and-a-half-year sentence, lawyer says.

Al Jazeera

Sam Bankman-Fried sent to ‘notoriously hard’ prison in California, then low-security facility in LA

The former CEO of FTX wanted to stay in Brooklyn as his appeal wound its way through the courts.

Fortune

Supreme Court tells US to try to return immigrant deported in error - Roll Call

The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the U.S. to try to return a wrongly deported immigrant from a prison in El Salvador.

Roll Call

Minnesota nurse facing federal charges for allegedly grabbing flight attendant’s genitals

If convicted, 64-year-old Jody Lynn Sherry-Berg could be imprisoned for up to 20 years

The Independent UK

Family of drug dealer pardoned by Biden after two decades devastated as he’s forced to return to prison after ‘clerical error’

Ronald Lymuel’s sister has sent a letter to President Trump pleading for help for her family

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Justice Department seeks death penalty for man who killed fellow supermax inmate

The Justice Department will seek the death penalty against a man accused of killing a fellow inmate at the federal government’s “Supermax” prison in Florence, Colorado, while serving a life sentence for killing his cellmate at another lockup

Reason

Ksenia Karelina, Imprisoned in Russia for Donating $51 to a Pro-Ukraine Charity, Is Freed

The American citizen had been sentenced to 12 years in a penal colony for treason.

The Independent UK

Israel releases 10 Palestinians detained from Gaza. They say they suffered abuse

Israel has freed 10 Palestinians detained from Gaza, the latest in periodic releases from the thousands of people troops have seized during the military campaign in the territory

Reason

Bill Would Require Federal Prisons To Notify Families of Serious Illness and Death

Families described not being told their loved one was in the hospital or even when they had died.

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The Independent UK

Who are the Americans still in Russian custody?

Russia has released a Russian American imprisoned on treason charges that Washington has dismissed as ludicrous

The Independent UK

Prosecutors ask for nearly 6-year sentences for Russian journalists in Moscow trial

Russian prosecutors are asking for prison sentences of nearly six years for each of four Russian journalists on charges of working for an anti-corruption group founded by the late opposition politician Alexei Navalny

The Independent UK

Israel releases Palestinian who took part in attack aged 13 and developed mental illness in prison

Israel has released a Palestinian who took part in an attack when he was 13 and developed schizophrenia in prison as requests for early release were denied

Euronews

Could the murderers of Turkish-Italian teenager Mattia Ahmet Minguzzi face adult sentences?

The Minguzzi family is waging a legal struggle for their son's alleged killers, both of whom are under 18, to be given full sentences — but the law prevents the court from treating them as adults.

International Business Times

US-Russian Woman Freed In Prisoner Swap After Treason Conviction In Russia

She was arrested in February 2024 while visiting her family in Yekaterinburg, Russia.

Euronews

Former ballerina Ksenia Karelina freed in latest US-Russia prisoner swap

A US-Russian dual national jailed in Russia for treason was freed in a prisoner exchange and is now on her way back to the US, Marco Rubio announced.

International Business Times

The US Citizens Still Held In Russian Prisons

US-Russian citizen Ksenia Karelina was on a plane back to the United States on Thursday after being released in a prisoner exchange between Moscow and Washington, her lawyer and America's top diplomat said.

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