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L.A. Police Officer Sentenced to Prison For Beating Homeless Man with Baton 45 Times

The homeless man was unarmed and another officer was holding him to the ground during the beating.

Latin Times

Revealed: Record number of ex-offenders charged with serious new crimes while on probation

Exclusive: The record figures coincided with the first five months of the Tories’ emergency move to free prisoners early

The Independent UK

Australia operates ‘immigration prisons’, human rights lawyer tells UN

In closed hearing, Alison Battisson says country has a ‘terrifying’ record of detaining people unlawfully for indefinite periods

The Guardian - AU

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Bitcoin launderer hands over $400 million as he heads to prison — offender sentenced to three years in prison for laundering money for drug dealers

The U.S. District Court awarded an Ohio resident, Larry Dean Harmon, a three-year prison sentence with additional three-year supervised releases and ordered the surrender of over $400 million in assets for laundering money for drug dealers using a darknet-based Bitcoin mixer called 'Helix.'

Tom’s Hardware

'I Didn't Intervene': Mike Tyson On Seeing Sexual Assaults And Getting Knife Threats In Prison

Mike Tyson revealed the harsh realities of prison life, including witnessing assaults and facing threats.

International Business Times UK

Susan Smith drowned her children in a lake then blamed a Black man. 30 years later, she asked for freedom and was denied

Susan Smith has been behind bars for nearly 30 years after she rolled her car into a South Carolina lake, drowning her two young sons who were strapped in their car seats. Andrea Cavallier reports

The Independent UK

More than a third of assaults on UK prison officers are not fully investigated

Staff says reports of abuse by inmates are not taken seriously by management, leaving them feeling vulnerable

The Guardian - UK

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Climate Activist Sentenced To Prison For Vandalizing National Archives

Climate change activist sentenced to 2 years for vandalizing National Archives in D.C. with red powder on U.S. Constitution. Court emphasizes importance of...

Top News

Tech firm Palantir spoke with MoJ about calculating prisoners’ ‘reoffending risks’

Exclusive: Rights group expresses concerns as it emerges US spy tech company has been lobbying UK ministers

The Guardian - UK

London nightclub Heaven closed after security guard charged with rape

Licence suspended for 28 days after Morenikeji Adewole, 47, was charged with rape on Wednesday

The Guardian - UK

‘Don’t be on wrong side of history’: Indefinite jail terms compared to Post Office and Infected Blood scandals

Supporters say the government’s response to the ‘industrial-scale miscarriage of justice’ is not good enough, and praised The Independent for highlighting the issue

The Independent UK

Peers say not reforming IPP sentences could cause another Post Office scandal

Ministers told they risk more miscarriages of justice by not backing bill to replace indefinite jail terms with fixed ones

The Guardian - UK

Prisoners held on indefinite terms should have sentences reviewed, peers told

Lord Tony Woodley says people still being held on abolished Imprisonment for Public Protection sentences are subjected to miscarriages of justice.

Evening Standard

Home Office spends £15m on 'contaminated' old prison for asylum accomodation

The Home Office spent £15 million buying a derelict prison contaminated with asbestos amid political pressure to stop housing migrants in hotels,…

The National (Scotland)

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Jailed Russian Poet Could Be 'Killed' In Prison, Warns Wife

The wife of a Russian poet jailed for seven years for reciting anti-war verses said she was afraid he could be killed in prison after he was sexually assaulted with a dumbbell during his arrest.

The Independent UK

Crypto hacker who stole $11 billion of bitcoin sentenced to prison

Ilya Lichtenstein sentenced for theft of $11 billion worth of bitcoin from the Bitfinex crypto exchange

Evening Standard

Murderer John Cannan died in prison from ruptured aneurysm, inquest hears

He was found dead at the age of 70 in high-security HMP Full Sutton, in East Yorkshire.

Reason

Brickbat: Side Hustle

A court in Liverpool sentenced Andrew Talbot, a former officer with the Greater Manchester Police, to 19 years in prison… The post Brickbat: Side Hustle appeared first on Reason.com.

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Evening Standard

US hacker jailed for five years over Bitcoin heist worth billions of dollars

Ilya Lichtenstein stole around 120,000 Bitcoin - now worth $7.6 billion

The Independent UK

California man to be sentenced for hate crime in the killing of a gay college student

A California man convicted of stabbing to death a gay University of Pennsylvania student in an act of hate is expected to be sentenced to life in prison

The Guardian - UK

Tory pair backed ‘rushed and misjudged’ asylum site purchase, watchdog says

Robert Jenrick and Oliver Dowden were on committee that supported paying £15m for asbestos-ridden former prison

The Independent UK

Death penalty sought for an Idaho gang member accused of killing a man while on the run

Prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty if an Idaho white supremacist gang member is convicted of killing a man while he was on the run

Top News

Tennessee Man Convicted Of Producing Child Sexual Abuse Images

Sean Williams convicted of child sexual abuse images and assaults, facing 15-30 years in prison. Johnson City Police Department under scrutiny for negligence.

The Guardian - US

Killings, stabbings, drugs: DoJ report paints damning picture of Atlanta jail

Investigators find prisoners at Fulton county jail, Georgia’s largest, tunneling through walls and violence unchecked

Evening Standard

Woman, 74, in life-threatening condition after collision with prison vehicle

It is believed that a DAF GeoAmey prison transport vehicle collided with two pedestrians, South Yorkshire Police said.

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