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Woman’s family must ‘plan for the worst’ as killer’s release from jail nears

Joanna Simpson was killed by her British Airways captain husband Robert Brown at their family home in October 2010.

The Independent UK

UK officially bans Russia’s Wagner paramilitary group as terrorist organisation

Those found guilty of violating the ban will face a potential sentence of upto 14 years in prison

The Independent UK

Ovidio Guzman, son of feared Mexican drug lord ‘El Chapo’, extradited to US

Ovidio ‘The Mouse’ Guzman was flown across the border from a prison in Mexico to face drug charges in the US.

Al Jazeera

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Rajahmundry Central Prison Superintendent’s wife passes away

S. Kiranmayi (46), wife of Rajahmundry Central Prison Superintendent Rahul, passed away following prolonged illness at a private hospital in the city on Friday evening.

The Hindu

Family of woman killed by husband ask justice secretary to keep him in jail

Robert Brown, who bludgeoned Joanna Simpson to death in 2010, is due to be released in November

The Guardian - UK

Rajahmundry jail superintendent goes on four-day leave

Rajahmundry Central Prison Superintendent said that he would rejoin duty on September 19. The leave was purely personal and had nothing associated with the present affairs of the prison

The Hindu

Michigan man cleared of killing 2 hunters to get $1 million for wrongful convictions

The state of Michigan has agreed to pay $1.03 million to a man who spent nearly 21 years in prison for the deaths of two hunters

The Independent UK

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Court sentences main suspects in Belgium's deadliest peacetime attack to 20-year to life terms

A Belgian court has sentenced six men to sentences ranging from 20 years to life in prison on charges of terrorist murder linked to suicide bombings that killed 32 people and wounded hundreds at Brussels airport and a subway station

The Independent UK

U.S. ambassador to Russia visits jailed WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich

The U.S. Ambassador to Russia Lynne Tracy visited imprisoned Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich on Friday, the U.S. Embassy in Moscow said in an online statement

The Independent UK

Jayne Anne Phillips, Paul Harding are among National Book Award fiction nominees

Historical novels by Jayne Anne Phillips and Paul Harding and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s dystopian prison novel “Chain-Gang All-Stars” are among the nominees on the National Book Awards long list for fiction

The Independent UK

Will Donald Trump go to prison?

Ex-president faces 91 felony counts across four prosecutions

The Independent UK

New panel to consider whether double child killer can be freed from prison

Justice Secretary Alex Chalk asked for the Parole Board to reconsider a previous decision to release Colin Pitchfork

Evening Standard

Bhuvaneswari’s ‘mulaqat’ plea to meet husband Chandrababu Naidu in Rajahmundry prison rejected

Former Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu, who is serving judicial remand in skill development scam case, has already used two of the ‘mulaqats’ allowed per week, and the third can be permitted only in the case of an emergency, says Superintendent.

The Hindu

Bahraini human rights defender denied travel to kingdom to visit jailed father

Maryam al-Khawaja fears her father, the political prisoner Abdulhadi al-Khawajar, will die soon after being denied medical treatment

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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

Evening Standard

Eighty prison officers at HMP Wandsworth skipped shifts on day of Daniel Khalife escape

Khalife allegedly escaped from HMP Wandsworth on September 6 by strapping himself to a food delivery lorry

The Independent UK

80 prison officers skipped shifts on day of Daniel Khalife escape

Khalife allegedly escaped from HMP Wandsworth on September 6 by strapping himself to a food delivery lorry.

The Independent UK

Daniel Khalife: 80 prison officers didn’t show up for work on day terror suspect escaped

Nearly 40 per cent of HMP Wandsworth staff failed to turn up on the day of the prison break, Tory minister admits, as National Crime Agency boss is brought in to investigate

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The Independent UK

Tory Lanez heading for prison after being denied bail in Megan Thee Stallion case

Lanez was sentenced to 10 years in prison following a trial over the shooting of fellow rapper Megan Thee Stallion

Reason

Brickbat: Old Boys Club

Five former members of London's Metropolitan Police Service face up to six months in prison after pleading guilty to sharing racist jokes on a WhatsApp chat group called "Old Boys Beer Meet." None of the men were serving with the police department at the time they shared the jokes. The…

Chicago Sun-Times

In El Chapo fallout, one of Chicago ‘cartel wives’ should get stiffer sentence than accomplices, feds say

They say Valerie Gaytan should get five years for laundering drug money from her husband Margarito Flores and his twin brother Pedro Flores, Chicago cocaine kingpins who helped convict the Sinaloa cartel boss. Her sister-in-law got 3½ years.

The Independent UK

Disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has ‘bonded’ with Real Housewives star Jen Shah in prison

Holmes reportedly attends Shah’s fitness classes in prison, which she’s named ‘Sha-mazing Abs’

The Independent UK

Detroit-area businessman gets more than 2 years in prison for paying bribes for marijuana license

A Detroit-area businessman has been sentenced to more than two years in federal prison for bribing the head of a Michigan marijuana licensing board

The Independent UK

Alex Murdaugh’s longtime friend and alleged accomplice is sentenced for financial fraud crimes

The 54-year-old former attorney is already serving four years in prison after pleading guilty to federal conspiracy charges

The Independent UK

Jordan rejects US request to release ex-Jordanian official accused of plot against king

Jordan rejected a U.S. request to release a former top Jordanian official imprisoned in an alleged plot against the Western-allied monarchy in September, the official's lawyer and family say

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