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Trump Orders Alcatraz Prison Re-opening, X Users Blast 'Psychotic Emperor Phase'

President Trump on Sunday ordered the Bureau of Prisons to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz, which has been closed since the 1960s, but many X users are against the infamous prison's revival.

International Business Times

Ex-prison officer who was stabbed by inmate calls for mandatory protective gear

Claire Lewis was attacked by an inmate in 2010.

The Independent UK

Trump Orders Rebuilding And Reopening Of Defunct US Prison Alcatraz

US President Donald Trump said Sunday he had directed officials to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz prison, the notorious federal jail based on a small island in California that closed six decades ago.

International Business Times

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Donald Trump orders reopening of notorious Alcatraz prison

US President says facility, which once held famed gangster Al Capone, will 'house America's most ruthless and violent offenders’

Evening Standard

Iraq's justice minister says prisons are at double their capacity as amnesty law takes effect

As a general amnesty law takes effect in Iraq, the country’s prisons are facing a crisis of overcrowding, housing more than double their intended capacity, the country’s justice minister said in an interview

The Independent UK

Cambodian court convicts prominent politician of incitement in latest legal move to stifle opponents

A Cambodian court has convicted a prominent opposition politician of incitement and sentenced him to four years in prison, in the latest legal move to stifle criticism of the government of Prime Minister Hun Manet

The Independent UK

Trump says he will reopen Alcatraz prison

President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a California island that has been closed for more than 60 years

The Independent UK

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5 Virginia prison guards are injured by inmates accused of being MS-13 members

Prison officials in Virginia say five guards have been injured in an attack by inmates who are MS-13 gang members

The Independent UK

Man released from Israeli prison after six months in detention

A CHILD psychotherapist working for an Edinburgh charity has been released after almost six months in detention in an Israeli prison ...

The National (Scotland)

Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s wrongful deportation case is more about individual rights than the Trump administration’s foreign policy

Trump administration officials have repeatedly claimed that judges who order the administration to take action to bring deported Venezuelans back from the El Salvador prison where the U.S. sent them are meddling in the conduct of foreign policy.

The Conversation

Football matches have better security than jails, says prison officers’ chief

Mark Fairhurst of the Prison Officers’ Association said overcrowding and violence were his members’ key concerns.

Evening Standard

Pregnant Mum Jailed After Smuggling Drugs into Prison in Boyfriend’s Trainers

A young mum from Cheshire has been sent to prison after she smuggled cannabis into jail for her drug-dealing boyfriend.

The Fashion Central

A notorious drug gang is in the crosshairs of a French police investigation of prison attacks

Anti-organized crime specialist investigators probing a wave of attacks on prisons and prison staff in France are looking at the possible involvement of a notorious drug cartel

The Independent UK

France charges 21 prison attack suspects

Prosecutors said Saturday that 21 suspects in a series of coordinated attacks on French prisons had been charged, including two teenagers.

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Cycling Weekly

"I'm learning a new living here." How bikes are helping ex offenders start afresh and rebuild their lives.

Bike mechanic training for inmates takes bikes and blokes with a past and gives them both a chance to have a future

International Business Times

France Charges 21 Prison Attack Suspects

Prosecutors said Saturday that 21 suspects in a series of coordinated attacks on French prisons had been charged, including two teenagers.

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‘I wish it hadn’t happened, but I don’t think I deserved to go to prison. I got looked after, but that won’t stop somebody throwing a bucket of s**te at you’ Duncan Ferguson tells FourFourTwo about the horrors of Glasgow’s notorious Barlinnie Prison

The striker served 44 days in prison in 1995 for an on-field headbutt that took place a year earlier

The Guardian - UK

Cramped Victorian prisons limiting rehabilitation, chief inspector says

Charlie Taylor says old, overcrowded jails in England and Wales were never designed for education and training

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The Independent UK

This Met Gala is filled with pro athletes. Dressing them is a unique challenge

When Brittney Griner became the first WNBA player to attend the Met Gala in 2023, just months after being released from a Russian prison in a high-profile prisoner swap, she wowed in a custom-made Calvin Klein suit

Radio France Internationale

French prison attack probe shifts from terrorism to drug gangs

French anti-terror prosecutors have handed over the investigation into a spate of violent attacks on prisons, saying that the violence is linked to drug gangs rather than terrorism.

Evening Standard

Teen jailed for stabbing 17-year-old to death with machete in Hackney

Rio Lue, who stabbed ‘good soul’ Nathan Bawuah to death, will spend 12 years in prison after he was found guilty of manslaughter

The Guardian - UK

Governors have lost control of prison in Staffordshire, union says

Prison Officers’ Association claims officer was stabbed in head and two others punched in face at HMP Swinfen Hall

Sports Illustrated

Josh Jacobs Reveals Henry Ruggs III Training for Hopeful NFL Comeback While in Prison

Jacobs was a Crimson Tide teammate of Ruggs's.

International Business Times

French Prison Attacks Linked To Drug Traffickers, Say Prosecutors

Prosecutors said Friday a series of coordinated attacks on French prisons were carried out by drug traffickers, with at least one suspect thought to have ties to a notorious cartel.

Al Jazeera

Hong Kong ex-lawmaker describes ‘Kafka-esque’ prison experience

Claudia Mo says she read more than 300 books and brushed up on her French while in prison.

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