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UN torture tsar calls on Starmer to review sentences of IPP prisoners trapped indefinitely behind bars

Dr Alice Jill Edwards says cases raised by The Independent highlight need for ‘urgent’ action to end ‘terrible indictment’ on UK justice system

The Independent UK

Matthew Perry’s assistant found him unconscious at least twice before his death

Kenneth Iwamasa faces up to 15 years in prison if he is convicted

The Independent UK

As an ex-prison officer, I know how to make space: let out drug offenders and low-level gang members

Labour’s Operation Early Dawn will address overcrowding, but the problems that cause it need equal attention, says former prison officer Alex South

The Guardian - UK

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Union warns of probation officer shortage ahead of prisoners’ early releases

Up to 2,000 offenders due to be freed in England and Wales in September after serving 40% of sentence

The Guardian - UK

Hollyoaks spoilers: LOCKED UP! Warren Fox gets a visit in prison!

Airs Wednesday 28 August on E4 at 7pm.

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A woman accused of aiding an escaped prisoner appears in a North Carolina court

The woman accused of helping an escaped prisoner in North Carolina evade police appeared in court for the first time since her arrest

The Independent UK

Disgraced former congressman George Santos faces prison time after pleading guilty to fraud crimes

Santos was indicted last year on 23 charges, including wire fraud, identity theft and abusing unemployment benefits

The Independent UK

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Washington DC council member arrested on bribery charges

Trayon White could face up to 15 years in prison for allegedly accepting $156,000 to aid private companies

The Guardian - US

Wisconsin woman who argued she legally killed sex trafficker gets 11 years in prison

A Milwaukee woman who argued that she was legally allowed to a kill a man because he was sexually trafficking her has been sentenced to 11 years in prison

The Independent UK

Riots push overcrowded prisons to breaking point triggering ‘one in, one out’ measures

In Merseyside – where riots first erupted – there were rumoured to be just two spaces left in the prison system at the weekend

The Independent UK

What is Operation Early Dawn and why has it been triggered to tackle prison overcrowding?

The emergency measure was previously triggered by the Conservative government in May in a bid to tackle overcrowding in jails

The Independent UK

Jailed Imran Khan applies to become new chancellor of Oxford University from prison cell

The former premier is serving a 14-year jail sentence after being convicted of corruption and leaking state secrets

Evening Standard

OPINION - Britain's prisons are an overcrowded disaster zone — this crisis is getting out of control

The emergency measures announced today to ease the prison overcrowding crisis — which will result in suspects being held in police cells across northern England instead of prison — are a direct result of the far-Right riots first triggered by disinformation spread online about the hideous killings of three girls…

Evening Standard

OPINION - The Standard View: Prisons were full and the criminal justice system in crisis long before the riots

The move to jail swiftly those who took part in riots this month played a vital part in ending the violence. Yet it also had the unavoidable effect of adding further strain to this country’s overcrowded prisons and under-pressure criminal justice system.

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Operation Early Dawn: Could urgent measures to avoid prison overcrowding be triggered in London?

Ministers have activated emergency measures to ease prison overcrowding in the north of England as more rioters are sentenced for their role in the recent unrest

The Guardian - UK

Starmer condemns ‘intolerable, racist’ riots during Northern Ireland visit – as it happened

PM meets police officers and members of communities targeted

Evening Standard

Emergency prison overcrowding measure activated as more rioters face jail sentences

The Government has triggered an emergency plan to avoid prison overcrowding as rioters are sentenced

The Guardian - UK

Prison crowding emergency measures a ‘sticking plaster’, Starmer told

Ministers activate Operation Early Dawn, so defendants can be held in police cells as more are sentenced over riots

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The Independent UK

Emergency measures to ease prison overcrowding activated as more rioters are sentenced

Operation Early Dawn to help manage short-term prison capacity pressure as justice system in ‘crisis’

The Guardian - UK

Crisis measures to tackle English prison overcrowding imminent, says union

POA chair says ministers could declare as soon as Monday that Operation Early Dawn is coming into force

International Business Times

Yulia's husband was different from most Ukrainians captured by the Russian army, usually prisoners of war whose fate moved crowds.

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Chinese Political Prisoner Endures Harsh Treatment In Isolation

Ding Jiaxi's imprisonment in China raises concerns over mistreatment and lack of rights.

The Guardian - UK

Fresh UK prisons crisis as riots lead to fears of overcrowding

Exclusive: emergency plan set to be introduced that could see alleged criminals released and court cases delayed

The Independent UK

Outrage as fundraiser launched for family of Bristol rioter who attacked police

Tristan Tate, brother of social influencer Andrew, is among those to have donated to the crowdfunder for Dominic Capaldi

The Independent UK

White Florida woman guilty over fatal shooting of Black neighbor in dispute over children playing

Susan L Lorincz, 60, faces 30 years in prison

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