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TV tonight: inside the wrongful conviction that led to 17 years’ imprisonment

A documentary details how Andrew Malkinson spent almost two decades behind bars after a false accusation of rape and attempted murder. Plus: paranoia grips the gang in The Outlaws. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

American John Poulos Sentenced To Over 42 Years In Colombia

American man sentenced to 42 years in Colombian prison for femicide of Colombian DJ Valentina Trespalacios. Case highlights gender-based violence.

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Wisconsin warden jailed hours before news conference on prison death investigations

A Wisconsin prison warden was jailed just hours before a scheduled news conference where officials planned to discuss the findings of investigations into multiple deaths at his facility

The Independent UK

Rock climber sentenced to life in prison for Yosemite sexual assaults

Charles Barrett was accused of using his fame as a rock climber to lure victim to park and later making threatening phone calls to her

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The Latest | Israeli troops launch attacks in central Gaza, possibly widening their offensive

The Israeli military said it has started “operational activity” in two areas of central Gaza in a possible broadening of its monthslong ground offensive against Hamas

The Independent UK

Calls to shut down AI porn apps as sharing criminalised

People who create or share deepfake pornography will face jail under new laws, but some think the government could do more to stop the dehumanising activity.

AAP

Man who attacked Muslim lawmaker in Connecticut sentenced to 5 years in prison

A man who attacked a Muslim state representative outside a prayer service in Connecticut has been sentenced to five years in prison

The Independent UK

Man who escaped Oregon hospital while shackled and had to be rescued from muddy pond sentenced

A man who escaped from Oregon's state psychiatric hospital while fully shackled and was later found floundering in a muddy pond has been sentenced to 22 years in prison

The Independent UK

Hunter Biden's Trial Highlights a Widely Flouted, Haphazardly Enforced, and Constitutionally Dubious Gun Law

The president's son, who is charged with crimes that violated no one's rights, theoretically faces up to 25 years in prison.

Reason

Prisoner dies 12 days after Pennsylvania judge granted compassionate release for health reasons

A Pennsylvania man who had been serving life for second-degree murder is dead, about two weeks after being granted a medical transfer from prison to a facility that could better treat his condition, including quadriplegia

The Independent UK

The radical changes that are needed to fix the failings of our prison system

Letters: Deborah Coles, Joe Sim and Steve Tombs call for a change in sentencing policy, a halt to prison-building, a cut in the jail population and investment in communities and alternatives to custody

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Federal Supervised Release Is a Wasteful Mess. A Bipartisan Bill in Congress Is Trying To Fix That.

The Safer Supervision Act would create an off-ramp for those with good behavior to petition to have their supervised release sentences terminated early.

International Business Times

GOP Senators Warn Judge Against Sentencing Trump To Prison Or House Arrest

Republican senators are warning Judge Juan Merchan about sentencing Donald Trump to prison or house arrest.

The Independent UK

A man sat behind Fauci pulling faces at him in fiery House Covid hearing. But who is he?

January 6 rioter Brandon Fellows, who served one of the toughest prison sentences yet for the insurrection, was sitting behind the former chief medical adviser to the president

International Business Times

Behind Bars: Belfast Jail Reborn As Whiskey Distillery

Once home to paramilitary prisoners during Northern Ireland's "Troubles", a notorious Belfast jail is now home to a whiskey still that is drawing tourists to a formerly strife-torn area.

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The Independent UK

She didn’t treat the wound of her Autistic daughter before a deadly infection. Now, she won’t spend a day in prison

Police found four other children living in home filled with vermin and rotten food

AAP

Twenty-three years' jail for deviant online child abuse

An online predator who manipulated overseas child victims to satisfy his deviant sexual desires will remain in prison until at least 2039.

The Independent UK

Greek extreme far-right leader to return to prison after judges rescind his early release

The head of Greece’s extreme far-right Golden Dawn party will return to prison after a council of judges rescinded his early conditional release

AAP

Prisoners locked in cells while guards strike over pay

Hundreds of prisoners in Victoria's largest maximum security jail were locked down after prison officers took industrial action to fight for better pay.

The Independent UK

Pakistan's Imran Khan is acquitted of leaking state secrets but remains in prison on other charges

A lawyer for Pakistan's imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan says an appeals court has acquitted him of leaking state secrets

The Independent UK

Man gets 43-year prison sentence in death of Detroit-area teen whose body is lost in landfill

A Detroit man has been sentenced to more than 40 years in prison for killing a teenager whose body is believed to be lost forever in a landfill

Evening Standard

Zara Aleena’s family ‘tortured with thought her death was preventable’, inquest is told

Jordan McSweeney was to be recalled to prison when he killed the 35-year-old law graduate as she walked home from a night out in Ilford

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