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Guinea Ex-dictator Sentenced For 2009 Massacre Pardoned: Junta

Guinea's ex-dictator Moussa Dadis Camara, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison over a 2009 massacre, was pardoned Friday for "health reasons" by the West African country's junta head, according to a decree read out on national television.

International Business Times

Trump commutes sentence of Ozy Media co-founder Carlos Watson before prison term even begins

The former talk show host was convicted last year after the implosion of the once-buzzy and ambitious startup company

The Independent UK

Spanish Court Acquits Former Barcelona Star Dani Alves of Sexual Assault And Overturns His Prison Sentence

Former Barcelona and Brazil soccer star Dani Alves was acquitted by an appeals court in Catalonia, Spain, and overturned the four-and-a-half-year prison sentence against him

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Spanish court overturns football player Dani Alves' rape conviction on appeal

The former Barça footballer was sentenced to four and a half years in prison last year and has spent more than a year in pre-trial detention for the alleged rape of a young woman in a nightclub.

Euronews

Sam Bankman-Fried is moved out of New York City prison and half way across the country

Lawyers for the FTX founder had requested Bankman-Fried be transferred to a prison closer to his parents in California

The Independent UK

Fox Host Claims Democrats Are Trying to Make 'Nazi' a Slur After Commentator Slams El Salvador Prison for 'Nazi-Style Ideology'

Debate erupted on Fox News after a commentator criticized Kristi Noem for filming at a prison in El Salvador, which she described as "Nazi-style ideology."

Latin Times

Terror offender who glorified Lee Rigby murder recalled to prison

Royal Barnes, 34, was convicted of inciting terrorism overseas and three counts of transmitting a terrorist publication in 2014

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‘Hanging up the high vis’: Just Stop Oil says it will stop direct action protests this April

During their three-year history, Just Stop Oil supporters have been arrested 3,300 times and imprisoned 180 times.

Euronews

Trumps calls on Supreme Court to let him deport Venezuelans under Alien Enemies Act

Administration wants court to resume summary removals after deporting dozens of immigrants to El Salvador prison

The Independent UK

Sam Bankman-Fried parts ways with ‘Diddy’ as feds transfer crypto con man from Brooklyn prison to Oklahoma

The former FTX CEO is presumably en route to California, where his parents live.

Fortune

‘Dangerous’ inmate locked up indefinitely for attempting to kill prison officers

Aklakar Rahman, 38, repeatedly made attempts to wound or kill prison officers, the Old Bailey has heard.

Evening Standard

Carlo Ancelotti could face four years in prison as he stands trial over tax evasion

Ancelotti is to stand trial on tax evasion charges next week

The Independent UK

Spanish court overturns Dani Alves' sexual assault conviction

A Spanish court overturned former Barcelona and Brazil footballer Dani Alves' sexual assault conviction on Friday, citing "insufficient evidence" to uphold his presumption of guilt. Alves, 41, had been sentenced to four and a half years in prison in February 2024 for allegedly raping a woman at a nightclub in…

The Times of India

French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal given five year prison sentence

Sansal was arrested in November 2024 at Algiers airport. French President Macron has called on Algeria to release the writer.

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Evening Standard

McCann family stalking suspect denied bail by Crown Court judge

Polish national Julia Wandel, 23, will be kept in prison custody until a futher hearing next month.

The Independent UK

Prison overhaul could see killers get early release for good behaviour

Killers could serve shorter jail terms for good behaviour in radical overhaul of sentencing, justice minister signals

The Independent UK

Former Australian police officer avoids prison after killing 95-year-old woman with a stun gun

A former Australian police officer has avoided a prison term for killing a 95-year-old nursing home resident with a stun gun

The Guardian - UK

Government opens first-of-its-kind ‘green’ prison in East Yorkshire

HMP Millsike, described by critics as a ‘megaprison’, will add 1,500 places to prison estate in England and Wales

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The Independent UK

New 1,500-place prison opens amid bid to tackle jail overcrowding

Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood opened Category C prison HMP Millsike in Yorkshire.

The Independent UK

Killers could serve shorter jail terms for good behaviour in radical overhaul of sentencing, justice minister signals

Shabana Mahmood warned ‘short sentence reform on its own isn’t going to be enough’ to ease the overcrowding crisis as she opened a new 1,500-cell prison

The Independent UK

Judge says heat in Texas prisons unconstitutional as states face mounting lawsuits

A federal judge’s finding that extreme heat in Texas prisons is unconstitutional could lead to the state being ordered to spend billions to install air conditioning to cool them off

The Independent UK

The woman who killed Tejano music icon Selena in 1995 has been denied parole

Yolanda Saldívar, who has served nearly three decades in prison for killing Tejano music legend Selena Quintanilla-Perez, has been denied parole by a Texas board

Reason

Kristi Noem Uses El Salvador's Nightmarish Megaprison To Create Content

The Homeland Security secretary's use of El Salvador's largest prison for propaganda is unethical and an endorsement of an autocratic justice system.

The Guardian - UK

Lancashire prison governor denies alleged relationship with drug gang leader inmate

Kerri Pegg, 42, also accused of accepting gift of Mercedes from man styling himself Jesse Pinkman

The Guardian - US

Human rights groups rebuke Kristi Noem’s visit to El Salvador prison: ‘political theater’

Homeland security chief went to infamous prison holding deported Venezuelans as White House targets immigrants

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