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Connecticut Attorney General William Tong has agreed to pay $25.2 million to settle a lawsuit brought by two men who each spent over 30 years in prison after they were convicted of murder based on testimony from a state forensic scientist that a judge later determined to be false. No…

Reason

Life convict found dead in Chennai prison, police suspect suicide

Life convict Gajendran found dead in Central Prison, Puzhal, Chennai. Arrested in 2007 for murder of 1st wife, sentenced to life in 2009. Madras High Court declined to grant relief. Found dead in toilet near his cell; police suspect suicide. Assistance available on State's health helpline 104, Tele-MANAS 14416 &…

The Hindu

Fuller picture emerges of the 13 federal executions at the end of Trump's presidency

Fresh details have emerged about the 13 federal executions that were carried out in the final six months of Donald Trump's presidency

The Independent UK

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Mum behind lover's plot to kill ex gets 26 years' jail

Biannca Edmunds will spend at least 20 years in prison after a plot to murder her ex-partner ended in his death as well as the death of her husband.

AAP

Sam Bankman-Fried on trial: Fallen crypto king faces 110 years in prison for alleged FTX fraud

SBF will have to convince a jury that he was ‘just a kid moving too fast in a young industry’ and had no intent to defraud investors in the FTX crypto exchange, a legal expert tells Bevan Hurley ahead of fraud trial in Manhattan

The Independent UK

Woman who fatally shoved New York vocal coach in unprovoked attack sentenced to more than 8 years in prison

The Manhattan DA called the incident a ‘senseless and unprovoked attack’

The Independent UK

Convicted murderer accused of killing prison official with ‘homemade weapon’

Officer Robert Clark, 42, was escorting two inmates from the dining hall at Smith State Prison when he was attacked from behind

The Independent UK

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Prosecutors reveal a reason for Capitol rioter’s secretive sentencing: His government cooperation

Federal authorities have revealed a reason for the unusual secrecy surrounding a Pennsylvania man’s guilty plea and prison sentence for attacking police during the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021

The Independent UK

Former Chicago gang kingpin Jeff Fort loses First Step Act bid for freedom after 40 years in prison

Convicted of offering to bomb U.S. buildings for $2 million, ordering murder of a rival drug dealer, the 76-year-old El Rukn founder was denied release under legislation allowing judges to consider “compassionate release” for aging inmates.

Chicago Sun-Times

Prosecutors reveal a reason for Capitol rioter's secretive sentencing: His government cooperation

Federal authorities have revealed a reason for the unusual secrecy surrounding a Pennsylvania man’s guilty plea and prison sentence for attacking police during the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021

The Independent UK

Options Traders Go to War on Controversial But Compelling Geo Group (GEO)

Although the stench of private prisons has long clouded Geo Group, options traders largely anticipate upside for GEO stock.

Barchart

John Oliver on the writers’ strike: ‘Furious that it took the studios 148 days to achieve a deal’

The Last Week Tonight host blasted studios for dragging out the writers’ strike and dove into the issue of grossly inadequate healthcare for US prisoners

The Guardian - US

Will Donald Trump go to prison?

Ex-president Donald Trump faces 91 felony counts across four prosecutions as he runs for 2024 election

The Independent UK

Can Donald Trump still run for president after four indictments?

Republican former president Donald Trump faces federal indictments in Florida and DC and criminal and civil cases in both New York and Georgia

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‘You cr** where you eat’: Grim state of UK prisons revealed as inmates crammed into cells for 23 hours a day

‘You don’t expect it to be amazing in prison, but some of the conditions were really bad,’ former inmate Stephen Trotter said

Fortune

How Sam Bankman-Fried stacks up against Bernie Madoff and some of history’s biggest financial fraudsters

Where do the alleged crimes of Sam Bankman-Fried stack up against history's biggest fraudsters?

The Independent UK

Criminals may be freed early to ease overcrowding as prison crisis laid bare

Dire warning from the chief of UK prison governors who tells The Independent the ‘nuclear button could be pressed very soon’

The Independent UK

Wanted sex offender arrested and recalled to prison

Lancashire Constabulary had appealed for information on the whereabouts of Stephen Pennington.

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‘If you ain’t got love, you’ve just got chicken wings’: how food helped three chefs start again after prison

More than 600,000 people are released from prisons every year in the US and face an array of barriers to re-entry. For many, food has been a refuge

Zenger

FTX Cryptocurrency Exchange Spent $15M On Private Jets, Faces Trial Over Political Contributions

Founder Sam Bankman-Fried's lavish spending and alleged political maneuvering put him at risk of a century-long prison sentence.

The Independent UK

Jailed Maldives' ex-president transferred to house arrest after his party candidate wins presidency

Jailed former Maldives President Abdulla Yameen has been transferred from prison to house arrest, fulfilling the campaign promise of his party candidate who won the presidential election runoff

The Independent UK

Pakistan officials consider a new way to boost polio vaccination: prison

Authorities in one province of Pakistan are turning to a controversial new tactic in the decades-long initiative to wipe out polio: prison

The Guardian - UK

Time After Time by Chris Atkins review – a former inmate explores the reasons for reoffending

These stories of ex-offenders who returned to prison are varied and affecting, but the writer’s sometimes simple solutions to a complex issue can make him sound complacent

The Independent UK

NY woman who fatally shoved singing coach, age 87, is sentenced to more time in prison than expected

More time has been tacked onto an eight-year prison sentence for a New York woman who fatally shoved an 87-year-old Broadway singing coach

The Guardian - UK

Jimmy Lai: Hong Kong mogul, activist ... and now a prisoner for 1,000 days

He went from rags to riches before his anti-communist newspaper fell foul of security forces. Now Lai’s plight tells of a city forced to live in the shadow of Xi’s authoritarian China

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