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Las Vegas Woman Notoriously Nicknamed 'Black Widow' After Being Accused of Killing Husband Has Conviction Dismissed After Decades in Prison

A woman once dubbed "The Black Widow" in connection with the 1994 death of her husband had her murder conviction dismissed Monday after two decades in prison.

Latin Times

Missouri Man Who Shot and Killed Pregnant Woman During Argument About His Gun Sentenced to Life: 'No Remorse'

A Missouri man has been sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to fatally shooting his pregnant girlfriend during an argument.

Latin Times

Luigi Mangione shouts about ‘insult to the American people’ as he’s dragged into court by police

Luigi Mangione appeared at the Blair County Courthouse this afternoon in handcuffs and wearing an orange prison jumpsuit

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‘We think he died just before regime collapsed’: Syrians scour morgues full of tortured bodies

SPECIAL DISPATCH: From Assad’s slaughterhouse jail to the hospital morgue piled up with mutilated bodies, desperate Syrians search for family members disappeared under a despot’s brutal regime, reports Bel Trew

The Independent UK

Bournemouth beach murder accused said he liked knives, court told

Prison officer and criminology lecturer give evidence in trial of Nasen Saadi, who denies murder of Amie Gray

The Guardian - UK

Syrian Civil Defense Searches For Missing Detainees In Secret Prisons

Revelations from the Syrian Civil Defense shed light on the unimaginable suffering and enforced disappearances at Saydnaya prison, exposing the atrocities ...

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'Very Tough' Mass Deportations Under Trump Fuel This Prison Stock

Planned immigration crackdown could raise need for ICE detention beds and reactivate a lost contract.

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Syrian activist whose suffering became symbol of Assad brutality found dead in Sednaya prison

Mazen al-Hamada had escaped to tell the world about regime’s torture before returning to Damascus

The Guardian - UK

Teen, 16, Jailed For 12 Years For Attempted Homicide Of 14-Year-Old Boy, Attacked By Mistake

While the teenage attacker was sentenced to prison, the victim “will carry the injuries for the rest of his life,” the police said. The post Teen, 16, Jailed For 12 Years For Attempted Homicide Of 14-Year-Old Boy, Attacked By Mistake first appeared on Bored Panda.

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Religious Leader Who 'Married' Little Girls In Order to Rape Them Sentenced to Decades in Prison

A polygamist and self-proclaimed prophet who "spiritually married" 20 brides, including girls as young as 9-years-old, has been sentenced to 50 years in prison.

Latin Times

‘They tortured me when I asked to see him’: Wife of jailed Syrian reveals truth of Assad’s slaughterhouse jail

As the brutality of the Assad regime falls away, Bel Trew finds families driven by desperation, grief and fury as they searched for their lost loved ones

The Independent UK

Britain cannot build its way out of prisons crisis, Justice Secretary tells MPs

Shabana Mahmood says she will publish a ‘realistic’ plan later this week that will lead to 14,000 extra places being built.

Evening Standard

After Biden pardoned his son, advocates call on him to grant clemency for others

People on death row, those with marijuana convictions and the Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier are among those the president could benefit

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Convictions of people caught by illegal Florida police drug sting to be vacated

Broward county state attorney announces plan that could benefit up to 2,600 people convicted between 1988 and 1990

The Independent UK

Execution ropes and solitary confinement: Assad’s instruments of torture inside Saydnaya prison

Bashar al-Assad’s prisons in Syria were notorious for their harsh conditions.

Salon

MAGA’s jailhouse-to-White House pipeline

What Trump’s government of criminals and ne-er do wells means for America’s future

The Guardian - US

‘Not intended to rehabilitate people’: inside America’s broken parole system

Documentary Nature of the Crime follows incarcerated men as they navigate a difficult and often politicized process

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The Independent UK

Despairing Syrians search Assad’s notorious Saydnaya prison for signs of loved ones

Families desperately scoured the filthy cells of Syria’s Saydnaya prison on Monday (9 December) for any sign of their long-detained loved ones after its gates were flung open by rebels following the downfall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime.

Reason

Brickbat: Friendly Skies, Unfriendly Ground

Kevin O'Rourke, a 64-year-old Canadian man, has been sentenced to life in prison for possession of cannabis and CBD products.… The post Brickbat: Friendly Skies, Unfriendly Ground appeared first on Reason.com.

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Anger At Plan To Turn Nazi Tunnels Into Bunker For Super-rich

A German property developer has sparked outrage with a plan to turn a World War II tunnel system into a luxury bunker for rich survivalists who fear the outbreak of World War III. Relatives of the prison labourers who built it under the Nazis are aghast at the business venture…

The Guardian - AU

Israel says it has carried out more than 350 airstrikes in Syria; HTS leader says world ‘has nothing to fear’ – as it happened

IDF says strikes were targeting weapons stockpiles and strategic infrastructure over past 48 hours; Ahmed al-Sharaa attempts to reassure foreign nations in TV interview

The Guardian - UK

Tuesday briefing: What happened when the doors of Syria’s most notorious prison were finally opened

In today’s newsletter: The Guardian’s William Christou was the first western journalist to gain access to Sednaya prison. He reflects on what he saw

The Guardian - UK

Hundreds of trials derailed by failure to get defendants to court on time

Number of trials in England and Wales declared ‘ineffective’ because of delays has almost trebled under contracts Serco and GeoAmey

The Independent UK

Thousands scour Syria's most horrific prison but find no sign of their loved ones

Tens of thousands came to Saydnaya Prison from all over Syria after the fall of former President Bashar Assad to search for their loved ones

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