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Jailed Istanbul mayor İmamoğlu appears in court on public prosecutor threat charges

İmamoğlu's arrest and imprisonment have been widely viewed as politically motivated despite Turkey's government insisting the judiciary is independent and free from political influence.

Euronews

Rogue landlords fined more than £270,000 for illegally converting home into flats

Failure to comply with the confiscation order could result in a prison sentence of two years and nine months

Evening Standard

Free by Amanda Knox review: life affirming memoir that is full of grace

Her second book is a moving account of striving to find purpose in the darkest of places

Evening Standard

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

Tommy Robinson should have his 18-month prison sentence reduced as his segregation while in custody is having a “demonstrable effect” on his…

The National (Scotland)

A tech CEO has been charged with fraud for saying his e-commerce startup was powered by AI, when it was actually just using manual human labor

Albert Saniger could face up to 40 years in prison.

Fortune

‘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

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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

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.

The Conversation

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’

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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.

Fortune

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.

Roll Call

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.

The Independent UK

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

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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

The Independent UK

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.

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

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