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Alex Murdaugh’s friend pleads guilty to helping steal from dead maid’s family

A longtime friend of convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh has pleaded guilty to helping the disgraced attorney steal millions of dollars of insurance settlements from the sons of Murdaugh’s dead housekeeper

The Independent UK

Judge orders new trial in 1993 murder, but discredits theory that prison escapee was the killer

A judge has ordered new trials for two men convicted of murdering a woman in 1993 inside her home near Buffalo

The Independent UK

Alex Murdaugh friend pleads guilty to helping steal from dead maid's family

The Independent UK

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A Burmese hip-hop artist is jailed for 20 years for criticizing Myanmar's military leaders

A 38-year-old Burmese hip-hop artist has been found guilty of criticizing Myanmar’s military-controlled government and has been sentenced to 20 years in prison, according to a family member

The Independent UK

Billy McFarland went to prison for Fyre Fest. Are his plans for a reboot legal?

The controversial entrepreneur is seeking redemption and some people are ready for him to try. Tickets have sold out. But he still owes $26 million in restitution to the people he fleeced.

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Wife killer refuses to reveal where victim’s body is in public parole hearing

Glyn Razzell, 64, was found guilty of murdering his estranged wife, Linda, 41, in 2003 and sentenced to life in prison.

The Independent UK

Will Donald Trump go to prison?

Former president at the centre of several sprawling federal and state investigations and criminal cases, some of which stem back to the 2020 election

The Independent UK

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Can Donald Trump still run for president after his latest arrest in Georgia?

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

The Independent UK

Kristin Smart’s killer Paul Flores seriously injured in California prison attack

A California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokesperson said he is in ‘serious condition’ in hospital

The Independent UK

Andrew Malkinson: Independent inquiry ordered into case of innocent man jailed for 17 years for rape

Justice secretary Alex Chalk said that it is ‘essential lessons are learned in full’

The Independent UK

A top court in Pakistan will rule on a conviction appeal from ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan

Officials say a top court in Pakistan’s capital is expected to issue a crucial ruling on an appeal from the country’s imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan against his recent conviction and three-year sentence in a graft case

The Independent UK

Activists seek answers on Thaksin ‘favours’

Activists on Thursday asked authorities to look into whether Thaksin Shinawatra received a special favour when he was admitted to Police General Hospital just hours after he started his eight-year prison term.

Bangkok Post

A former principal of an Australian Jewish school sentenced to 15 years for child sex abuse

A former principal of an Australian Jewish school has been sentenced to 15 years in prison after she was convicted of sexually abusing two students

The Independent UK

Man convicted of killing Kristin Smart is attacked in prison and hospitalized in serious condition

The man convicted of killing a college student who vanished from a California campus more than 25 years ago has been hospitalized after he was attacked in prison

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Probation worker subjected to monkey chants wins payout

Lloyd Odain said he felt ‘grossly let down by the prison and probation service’.

The Independent UK

Mom gets life for stabbing newborn and throwing the baby in a river in 1992. DNA cracked the case

A 50-year-old woman has been sentenced to life in prison for killing her newborn daughter, whose stabbed body was found in a plastic bag in a South Carolina river in 1992

The Independent UK

Montana woman sentenced to life in prison for torturing and killing her 12-year-old grandson

A 51-year-old Montana woman who pleaded guilty to torturing and killing her 12-year-old grandson more than three years ago has been sentenced to life in prison

The Independent UK

Woman, 28, pleads guilty to fatally shoving Broadway singing coach, 87, avoiding long prison stay

A woman who killed an 87-year-old Broadway singing coach by shoving her onto a Manhattan sidewalk has avoided a lengthy prison sentence

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Betty Tyson dies at 75, spent 25 years in New York prison before murder conviction was overturned

A Rochester, New York, woman who spent 25 years in prison for murder before being exonerated will be laid to rest Friday

The Independent UK

What did Ron DeSantis do in Guantanamo?

Former prisoner has told The Independent that Florida governor watched him be force-fed to such a degree that he was ‘bleeding and throwing up’

The Guardian - UK

Victim’s partner urges no parole for Wiltshire killer unless body found

Greg Worrall says Glyn Razzell should not be freed unless he says what happened to Linda Razzell

The Guardian - UK

‘Grief changes people in different ways’: London drill star Blanco on prison, moral panic and his Angolan roots

A founder of the influential Harlem Spartans, Blanco was a massive subcultural star before time inside and the loss of his father prompted a search for new musical inspiration

The Independent UK

Iran sentences 8 to prison over paramilitary's death during last year's nationwide protests

Iran has sentenced seven men and a woman to prison after their convictions over allegedly aiding two men earlier executed for killing a paramilitary volunteer during the nationwide protests last year that followed the death of Mahsa Amini while in police custody

Evening Standard

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried living on bread and water in prison, says lawyer

‘Your Honour, that’s outrageous and needs to be remedied’, his defence argued

Al Jazeera

Thaksin taken to hospital hours after being jailed on return to Thailand

Prison officials say concerns about the former prime minister’s blood pressure and blood oxygen levels prompted move.

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