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Top 5 sports stars who went to prison: Mike Tyson, Oscar Pistorius, OJ Simpson and more

Sports stars are often seen as role models, but even some of the biggest names in sports have had brushes with the law, leading to prison time. These incidents, ranging from assault to tax evasion, show that no one is above the law, not even world-class athletes.

The Times of India

Former FTX executive Caroline Ellison faces sentencing

A former top executive in Sam Bankman-Fried’s fallen FTX cryptocurrency empire faces the possibility of years in prison when she is sentenced Tuesday for fraud

The Independent UK

Nearly half of prisoners at HMP Brixton tell watchdog it is easy to obtain drugs

Report finds prison is failing to prepare inmates for release and hundreds of prisoners have substance abuse problems

The Guardian - UK

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Man convicted of sending his son to rob and kill rapper PnB Rock gets 31 years to life

A man convicted of sending his 17-year-old son into a restaurant to rob and kill rapper PnB Rock has been sentenced to 31 years to life in prison

The Independent UK

Thousands of ill inmates released from Congo's main prison to ease overcrowding

Congo's minister of justice says nearly 1,700 ill inmates have been released from the country's largest prison as part of an effort to thin out Congo's overcrowded prisons

The Independent UK

The Menendez Brothers: Kim Kardashian and her family visit. They get their own documentary on Netflix

After an intense weekend, in which the Menendez brothers blasted Ryan Murphy for his version of their story on Netflix, things started to look up. Kim Kardashian and her family visited them, and they will have a documentary of their own.

Latin Times

Lyle and Erik Menendez Will Share What "Hasn’t Been Told" in Netflix Documentary 'The Menendez Brothers'

The convicted murders speak on their case from prison in the new doc, which premieres just weeks after 'Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.'

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Colorado Supermarket Shooter Found Guilty Of Murder

Man with schizophrenia convicted of killing 10 people in a Colorado supermarket faces life in prison. Family members and survivors testify during the trial.

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Gunman in Colorado supermarket shooting is the latest to fail with insanity defense

A man who killed 10 people at a Colorado supermarket in 2021 has been found guilty of murder

The Independent UK

Gunman who killed 10 at a Colorado supermarket found guilty of murder

A mentally ill man who killed 10 people at a Colorado supermarket in 2021 has been found guilty of murder and faces life in prison

The Independent UK

Kim Kardashian Visited the Menendez Brothers in Prison Following 'Monsters' Premiere

The reality star was reportedly joined by actor Cooper Koch, who plays Erik Menendez in the Netflix series.

Marie Claire

Kardashian meets with Menendez brothers

Kardashian stopped by San Diego's Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility to discuss prison reform

Salon

Gangs'stories: Marwan, or how to find redemption in Cape Town

For the past five years, the GANGS project, a European Research Council-funded project led by Dennis Rodgers, has been studying global gang dynamics in a comparative perspective. When understood in a nuanced manner that goes beyond the usual stereotypes and Manichean representations, gangs and gangsters arguably constitute fundamental lenses through…

The Conversation

Solidarity from Solitary and Beyond

Texans are organizing inside and outside of prisons to empower incarcerated workers, who labor in dangerous conditions without pay.

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The Shawshank Redemption at 30: is it really the greatest film ever made?

It suffered at the box office and failed to win any Oscars, but the 1994 prison drama is still seen by many as greater than The Godfather

The Independent UK

The Shawshank Redemption at 30: How one of 1994’s biggest flops became a cinematic classic

The producers wanted Tom Cruise. The creek in its most famous scene was toxic. And barely anyone saw it upon release. So why, Tom Fordy asks, did Frank Darabont’s seemingly doomed Stephen King adaptation grow into one of the most celebrated films of all time?

The Conversation

Dogma or data? Why sentencing reforms in NZ will annoy judges and clog the courts

The Luxon government surely has little sense of irony.

The Independent UK

Kim Kardashian visits killers Erik and Lyle Menendez in prison after Netflix show uproar

Erik Menendez recently spoke out about the brothers’ portrayal in Ryan Murphy’s ‘Monsters’

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7 best prison movies to stream right now

For drama behind bars, watch these prison movies

The Independent UK

A historic but dilapidated Illinois prison will close while replacement is built, despite objections

The Illinois Department of Corrections has spent September moving hundreds of inmates from Stateville Correctional Center in suburban Chicago in preparation for replacing the century-old lockup

The Guardian - UK

Putin regime will collapse without warning, says freed gulag dissident

Vladimir Kara-Murza and his wife, Evgenia, speak of his time in a Siberian jail

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Congo Releases 600 Prisoners To Ease Overcrowding

600 prisoners, including women and minors, released from overcrowded Makala Central Prison in Congo. Efforts made to address poor conditions and overcrowdi...

The Independent UK

Congo frees 600 inmates at main prison in a bid to ease overcrowding

Authorities in Congo say 600 prisoners in the country's main prison have been freed as part of a process aimed at decongesting overcrowded prisons

The Guardian - UK

Starmer eyes ex-Tory minister David Gauke for sentencing review role

The former Conservative justice secretary is on a shortlist to lead a policy review that could herald radical reforms

The Independent UK

Labour doubles down on pensioner winter fuel cuts: ‘The money has got to come from somewhere’

Exclusive: Labour chair Ellie Reeves speaks to The Independent about taking on Momentum, why change was needed to win the election, keeping pensioner winter fuel cuts and the need to build more prisons

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