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Inside abandoned £1.5million prison with unbreakable glass walls instead of bars

Photos reveal inside an abandoned prison with unbreakable glass walls worth £1.5million and built to house 46 male and female inmates in Florida, US

Daily Mirror

Alex Murdaugh associate Russell Laffitte is denied new trial over financial fraud charges

Russell Laffitte, the former CEO of Palmetto State Bank, was convicted in November of financial fraud charges in connection to Murdaugh’s alleged white collar fraud schemes

The Independent UK

First Dates' Fred Sirieix behind plans to open a restaurant in a Welsh prison

The television star is a trustee and founder of The Right Course charity, which is behind the scheme to help train inmates in the hospitality industry

Wales Online

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Kuwait Acquits 13 Nationals of Terror-funding, Affiliation with Hezbollah

The Kuwaiti Criminal Court on Tuesday acquitted thirteen nationals of charges of financing terrorism and joining the ranks of the Hezbollah party. In November, 2021, the defendants were interrogated on charges of funding groups and organizations linked to the Lebanese Hezbollah group. The prosecution ordered the defendants be put in…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Black inmates face disproportionate force, prison watchdog warns

Wormwood Scrubs blighted by violence, gangs, drugs and mental health crises

Evening Standard

Charles Bronson's prison pal shares what he should expect after public parole hearing

Stephen Gillen is a reformed gangster and once befriended Charles Bronson as they did time together, and now he's spoken out as the infamous prisoner is going through a public parole hearing

Daily Mirror

What’s next for Alex Murdaugh after guilty trial verdict and life prison sentence?

Whatever the verdict had been in the murder case, Murdaugh was never walking out of court a free man

The Independent UK

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Edinburgh prison faces 'corporate homicide' investigation after death of inmate Alan Marshall

Police Scotland has been ordered to investigate the Scottish Prison Service over the death of Allan Marshall. The organisation could face 'corporate homicide' charges.

Edinburgh Live

Scottish Prison Service could face prosecution over 'preventable' death of inmate

SCOTLAND'S top law officer has told the police to investigate whether the Scottish Prison Service should be prosecuted over the death of a prisoner.

The National (Scotland)

Scottish Prison Service facing possible prosecution over death of prisoner

Allan Marshall died aged 30 after being restrained by prison officers while on remand in HMP Edinburgh.

The Independent UK

Scottish Prison Service faces 'corporate homicide' probe over custody death of Allan Marshall

The 30-year-old, who was a dad-of-two, died in hospital four days after being dragged naked and face down by officers at HMP Edinburgh in March 2015.

Daily Record

Canberra woman suing Alexander Maconochie Centre says her human rights were violated in 'degrading' strip search

A former prisoner says it felt like she was being "pack raped" when officers removed her from her cell before a strip search that she says breached her human rights.

ABC News

Oscar winner Alex Gibney is making a documentary on Elon Musk

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is set to be the subject of a new documentary by Oscar-winning director of 'Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief', Alex Gibney. Read further on Dynamite News:

Dynamite News

Charles Bronson shares his prison life, discusses violent past and hopes for future at parole hearing

“I took half a tub of Lurpak with me, stripped off and had the rumble of my life. It was f****** brilliant.”

Manchester Evening News

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The Guardian - UK

‘If only my tastebuds could paint’: how prison food art reveals life inside

An art group at Pentonville prison has produced a booklet that shows how inmates get by deprived of the basic but profound freedom to eat as they like

Financial Times

Inside El Salvador’s mega prison: the jail giving inmates less space than livestock

FT analysis finds 40,000 detainees would have just 0.6 sq metres of cell space each in ‘city of crime’

The New Daily

Jail term shaved for drug kingpin Tony Mokbel

Tony Mokbel has been successful in his bid to receive a shorter prison sentence after an earlier conviction was quashed due to the Lawyer X scandal.

ABC News

Tony Mokbel's sentence cut after drug conviction quashed in wake of Lawyer X scandal

The prison sentence of one of Victoria's most notorious gangland figures, drug trafficker Tony Mokbel, is reduced following the quashing of one of his convictions due to the Lawyer X scandal.

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Shorter jail term set for drug kingpin Tony Mokbel

Tony Mokbel has been successful in his bid to receive a shorter prison sentence after an earlier conviction was quashed due to the Lawyer X scandal.

Bangkok Post

Court jails 5 hunters for killing tigers

Kanchanaburi: The Thong Pha Phum provincial court has sentenced five hunters to almost five years in prison for killing a tiger and her cub in a national park in Thong Pha Phum district last year.

The Independent UK

Father of Nashville Waffle House shooter gets 18 months

An Illinois man has received an 18-month prison sentence after being convicted of illegally giving his son an assault-style rifle he later used to kill four people at a Waffle House in Tennessee

Evening Standard

Wayne Couzens joked about rape with colleagues two years before murdering Sarah Everard

The messages could not earlier be linked to the disgraced former Met officer due to ongoing court proceedings

Irish Mirror

Acid assault victim Simone Lee's shock as first attacker already a free man

Just last week brave Simone got justice when Christopher Stokes was jailed for 11 and a half years for brutally assaulting her and leaving her for dead in her Co Limerick home.

The Independent UK

Keir Starmer meets Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe ahead of International Women’s Day

The Labour leader met the former Tehran prisoner during a roundtable event with Iranian and Kurdish women.

Manchester Evening News

A serial rapist who terrorised Greater Manchester and got 13 life sentences was today released from prison

Andrew Barlow, formerly Andrew Longmire, was moved to a probation hostel at 9am today

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