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Takeaways from the California budget deal between Newsom and Democratic lawmakers

Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democratic legislative leaders on Monday agreed to a $310.8-billion budget spending plan that will reduce investments in fighting climate change and reflects a compromise on the governor's last-minute proposal to speed up infrastructure projects across California.

Los Angeles Times

Solitary confinement is still widespread in US prisons and jails

The United States locks people in isolation even though it causes severe psychological damage that can last a lifetime.

Al Jazeera

People in Florida prisons will get free calls for good behavior in new program

ORLANDO, Fla. — The Florida Department of Corrections plans to allocate $1 million to a new program that will make a small number of phone calls free for people serving time in prison who display good behavior.

Orlando Sentinel

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There’s Now A Prison-Themed Bar In Melb & Whoever Thought Of This Must Be Sent To… Never Mind

"Australia’s insistence that jail is fun actually never ceases to amaze me."

Pedestrian.tv

An ex-convict returned from war and a Russian village lived in fear. Then police say he killed again

Some convicts recruited by Russia's private military contractor Wagner to fight in the war in Ukraine are coming home and committing new crimes

The Independent UK

Thug left childhood pal disabled - now they're in prison together

Nathan Slemen was living at Zak Mortimer's mum's house but now he's got a permanent limp

Liverpool Echo

Colorado Springs LGBTQ+ club mass killer gets life in prison, victim says ‘devil awaits’ defendant

Anderson Lee Aldrich pleaded guilty to five counts of murder and 46 counts of attempted murder in the November 2022 attack that left five people dead.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Club Q attacker sentenced to over 2,000 years in prison for mass shooting in Colorado

The shooter pleaded guilty to five counts of first-degree murder and 46 of attempted murder.

Axios

SEC warns of prison time for Stark fraudsters

Members of the management team and others involved in the fraud surrounding Stark Corporation (STARK) could face up to 10 years in prison if found guilty, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said on Monday, as it tried to restore confidence in the Thai capital market.

Bangkok Post

Club Q shooter pleads guilty, receives 5 life sentences plus 2,208 years in prison

COLORADO SPRINGS — The attacker who killed five people in a mass shooting at a Colorado Springs LGBTQ nightclub last year was sentenced to five consecutive lifetimes in prison Monday.

The Denver Post

Woman goes viral making full-coverage 'prison makeup' using Pepsi and cocoa mix

A woman on TikTok has gone viral for showing her followers how to make prison makeup using flour, Pepsi, and cocoa mix

Daily Mirror

‘A monster, a killer, a murderer, a failure’: Survivors of Club Q massacre confront gunman as he’s sentenced to life in prison

Survivors and family members called Aldrich a terrorist, an animal, a loser, a monster – even ‘it’ in an attempt to dehumanise the shooter who took five lives, Sheila Flynn reports from Colorado Springs

The Independent UK

UN expert urges US to apologise for Guantanamo abuses

Special rapporteur calls for accountability for past abuses and end to ongoing ‘structural shortcomings’ at US prison.

Al Jazeera

Gogglebox star Marcus Luther is locked up with Eastenders' Sid Owen for new Channel 4 series

Six celebrities will be locked up in a former prison with real criminals who have spent time behind bars. Channel 4 hopes the series will cast a life on what it is like to live in a prison.

Manchester Evening News

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Ex-Florida college student who hit cop with skateboard during Capitol riot gets 3 years in prison; father also sentenced

ORLANDO, Fla. — A former Full Sail University student who struck a police officer with a skateboard while participating in the U.S. Capitol riot was sentenced to more than three years in federal prison last week.

The Independent UK

Honduras pool hall shooting may be linked to prison massacre that killed 46, say police

Honduras has started an El Salvador-style mass sweep of prisons and arrested a suspect in a pool-hall shooting last week that killed 11 people

Belfast Live

Gerry Adams compensation loophole to be closed, Government says

Move comes after former Sinn Féin President's conviction for Long Kesh imprisonment overturned

The Hindu

Mavelikara court sends murder convict to Attakulangara prison

Achamma alias Reji, a murder convict held after 27 years on the run, was “remanded” to the Women’s Prison and Correctional Home, Attakulangara in Thiruvananthapuram

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Al Jazeera

Suspect in LGBTQ nightclub shooting sentenced to life in prison

Anderson Lee Aldrich has pleaded guilty to charges stemming from a 2022 attack that killed five people in Colorado.

Liverpool Echo

Mum calls for change after son found dead in HMP Liverpool cell

Samuel Hayden's mum described her son as "extremely funny and beautiful"

Chicago Sun-Times

Pharmacist convicted of stealing and selling hundreds of COVID vaccination cards

A jury convicted Tangtang Zhao, 34, of theft of government property. He is scheduled to be sentenced on Nov. 28 and faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.

Tribune News Service

Gavin Newsom, California lawmakers face looming budget deadline. Here’s what they’re debating

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democratic legislative leaders have negotiated major elements of the state budget — although they remain at odds over Newsom’s eleventh-hour push to streamline large-scale infrastructure projects.

Tribune News Service

People have gone to prison for keeping classified documents. Hawley says Trump’s different

WASHINGTON -- There have been many cases where people have gone to prison for mishandling classified documents. The difference for former President Donald Trump, in the eyes of Sen. Josh Hawley, is that Trump used to be president.

The Guardian - AU

Prison inmates to be charged 24c a minute for phone calls as NSW scraps cheaper providers

Decision could make inmates’ contact with family and friends unaffordable, despite studies showing it reduces recidivism

Belfast Live

Sinn Fein not signing statement on removal of Prison Service recruitment posters a 'backwards step', says DUP

But Sinn Fein said its "support for the Prison Service and the PSNI is consistent"

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