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A way of saying ‘we shall overcome’: Playing football on Robben Island

The Makana Football Association was another way to resist apartheid by political prisoners in the South African jail.

Al Jazeera

Police make 630 arrests of climate protesters in London in one month

Liberty condemns ‘staggering and shocking’ statistic as anti-protest legislation is enacted

The Guardian - UK

Brickbat: The Wrong Man

Miguel Solorio, who spent 25 years in a California prison after being convicted of a fatal drive-by shooting, was exonerated and ordered freed by a judge after the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office said it had "confidently and definitively" concluded he was wrongly convicted. Solorio was convicted, in part, by…

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Is it legal to keep people who have served their time for sex offences in preventive detention?

Under proposed regime, an application could be made about a person convicted of a serious violent or sexual offence punishable by seven or more years in prison. But is it legal?

The Guardian - AU

US prison deaths soared by 77% during height of Covid-19 crisis, study finds

Analysis of in-custody deaths show mortality rates were more than three times the increase in general population in 2020

The Guardian - US

How a Palestinian teen’s release exposed Israeli mistreatment of prisoners

Israel claimed 18-year-old Mohammed Nazal was healthy when leaving prison, but the evidence suggests otherwise.

Al Jazeera

The shadowy Hamas leader behind the war against Israel

Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, is widely believed to have helped mastermind the unprecedented Hamas attack that changed the course of Israeli-Palestinian history.

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What the resumption of Israel-Hamas fighting means for Palestinians in Israeli jails

Human rights groups say Israel stepped up arrests in the occupied West Bank during the war. Only a fraction of those arrested have been released as part of hostage and prisoner exchanges.

WEKU

Nine out of 10 South African criminals reoffend, while in Finland it's 1 in 3. This is why

A very large percentage of South Africans who are released from prison end up being rearrested and being convicted for crimes again. The country has one of the highest recidivism rates in the world. Criminologist Casper Lӧtter sets out his findings in a recent paper on what can be learnt…

The Conversation

Foreign prisoners could serve shorter sentences than Britons in bid to ease overcrowding crisis

The Independent has repeatedly highlighted the overcrowding crisis facing Britain’s prisons, with inmates crammed into cells for up to 23 hours a day and ministers considering freeing prisoners early to make space

The Independent UK

Iran ‘using Gaza conflict as cover’ for execution of 127 people since war began

Human rights groups record alarming rise in number of people put to death by Tehran regime since 7 October

The Guardian - UK

Derek Chauvin: George Floyd's killer stabbed '22 times by former mafia member'

The former Minneapolis police officer convicted in the death of George Floyd was stabbed 22 times by an ex-mafia member in prison.

Evening Standard

Russia brings new charges against jailed Kremlin foe Navalny

Imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been handed new charges by Russian prosecutors

The Independent UK

Hidden history of the Monroe Doctrine

Retracing the legacies of racism and colonialism on the 200th anniversary of the Monroe Doctrine

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Ex-Met officer sentenced over unauthorised searches on police systems

A former Metropolitan Police officer who made unauthorised searches on computer systems for his own purposes has received a suspended prison sentence.

Al Jazeera

Is Israel criminalising Palestinian thoughts too, amid Gaza war?

Israel is taking a variety of actions to crack down on any form of support for the Palestinian cause.

WEKU

Inmate who stabbed Derek Chauvin 22 times is charged with attempted murder

John Turscak stabbed Chauvin 22 times at the Federal Correctional Institution in Tucson and said he would've killed Chauvin had correctional officers not responded so quickly, federal prosecutors say.

The Independent UK

Former Memphis officer charged in Tyre Nichols' death had some violations in prior prison guard job

One of the five former Memphis Police officers charged in the death of Tyre Nichols had incurred some policy violations in a prior prison guard job and faced accusations of excessive force that his department deemed unfounded or unsubstantiated

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The Independent UK

Ex-correctional officer at federal prison in California gets 5 years for sexually abusing inmates

A federal correctional officer has been sentenced to more than five years in prison for sexually abusing two inmates at a women’s prison in California where the warden and other employees were charged with similar conduct

The Independent UK

Inmate charged with attempted murder over prison attack on Derek Chauvin

John Turscak, an incarcerated former gang member, was charged on Friday after allegedly stabbing the ex-Minneapolis officer 22 times

The Independent UK

Inmate stabbed Derek Chauvin 22 times, charged with attempted murder, prosecutors say

A federal inmate was charged Friday with attempted murder in the Nov. 24 prison stabbing of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd

Reason

Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Retaliating against a harbormaster, retaliating against a prisoner, and official-act immunity.

The Independent UK

Kenyan cult leader sentenced to 18 months for film violations but still not charged over mass graves

The leader of a doomsday cult in Kenya has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for the illegal distribution of films and operating a film studio without licenses

Chicago Sun-Times

Retired Chicago firefighter gets 2 months in prison for taking part in ‘Tunnel’ siege at U.S. Capitol

Joseph Pavlik spent 33 years as a firefighter before retiring in 2013, prosecutors said. He went to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, with a tactical vest, helmet, goggles, a gas mask and a can of chemical spray.

Evening Standard

OPINION - Havering council's attempt to cancel Hanukkah sent a truly chilling message

The sky was rarely darker than on a moonless night in Theresienstadt. Of the 140,000 Czech Jews imprisoned in the concentration camp-ghetto in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, a quarter died of disease or starvation. The rest were carted away, murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau and other death camps in the East. Yet even in…

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