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Ex-FBI agent Robert Hanssen who spied for Russia dies in US jail

Robert Hanssen had pleaded guilty to spying for the Soviet Union and then Russia for more than 20 years in major breach.

Al Jazeera

Morning Mail: youth prison ‘like Guantánamo’, Ukraine forces on the attack, Apple reveals VR gadget

Guardian investigation reveals litany of concerns at Townsville facility, Ukrainian troops drive back Russians, Apple’s Vision Pro unveiled

The Guardian - AU

Robert Hanssen, FBI agent who spied for Russia, found dead in prison

Robert Hanssen, the former FBI agent turned spy whom the bureau describes as the most damaging in its history, was found dead in his prison cell on Monday, U.S. authorities said.

Reuters

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Ex-part owner of Minnesota Vikings gets over six years in cryptocurrency scam

A former Minnesota Vikings part owner who defrauded a short-lived professional football league while carrying out a $700 million cryptocurrency scam has been sentenced to over six years in prison

The Independent UK

‘Is this happening?’: Kathleen Folbigg’s first night as free woman

Kathleen Folbigg was in disbelief and smiling as she stepped out of a prison van in her first moments as a free woman after 20 years in jail.

The New Daily

Former FBI agent Robert Hanssen, who was convicted of spying for Russia, dies in prison

A former FBI agent who took more than $1.4 million in cash and diamonds to trade secrets with Russia and the former Soviet Union in one of the most notorious spying cases in American history has died in prison

The Independent UK

Missouri jurors sentenced Michael Tisius to die for killing prison guards. So why did they change their mind?

Execution scheduled for Tuesday

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Robert Hanssen: FBI agent who infamously spied for Russia for 20 years found dead in supermax cell

Hanssen sold highly classified material to the Soviet Union and then Russia for more than $1.4m in diamonds and cash

The Independent UK

French court sentences two men who attacked Brigitte Macron's relative to jail

A French court on Monday sentenced two men to jail after convicting them on charges of beating up the great-nephew of French first lady Brigitte Macron last month outside her family's chocolate shop.One of the accused was sentenced at the court in the northern city of Amiens to 12 months…

France 24

Hugh Callaghan obituary

One of the Birmingham Six who spent 16 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of the 1974 pub bombings

The Guardian - UK

‘Like Guantánamo’: the children locked in solitary for weeks at a time in Queensland youth prison

Exclusive: Whistleblowers, judges and youth workers say children are leaving Townsville’s Cleveland youth detention centre scarred, angry and more likely to commit further crime

The Guardian - AU

Nottinghamshire prison staff 'suspended pending investigation' after video released online

A number of clips taken by an inmate from inside a cell at the HMP Lowdham Grange have been published on Tik Tok

Nottingham Post

UN body condemns U.S., others for treatment of Guantanamo inmate

The United States and several other countries have committed human rights violations against a Saudi man held in the Guantanamo prison and accused of organising the bombing of the USS Cole in the port of Aden in 2000, a U.N. report said.

Reuters

Yemeni activist who revealed Houthi sexual abuses ‘detained by Saudi Arabia’

Samira al-Houri disappeared after allegations that claims of female prisoners being raped were embellished

The Guardian - UK

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The Week

Vladimir Kara-Murza, ‘Spymania’ and Putin’s crackdown on dissent

“Traitors and betrayers will get what they deserve.” So warned Russia’s Foreign Ministry following the sentencing of an outspoken critic of the Kremlin to 25 years in prison in April.

ABC News

Police charge Rockhampton prisoner Barry Bloomfield after alleged hospital escape

A man who had been jailed for assault is found two days after he allegedly ditched his handcuffs and fled from a Rockhampton hospital.

The Independent UK

Sharing the sentence: Separation takes toll on incarcerated moms and their kids

Tens of thousands fewer women were incarcerated in the U.S. between 2019 and 2020 due to COVID-19, but as prison populations creep back to pre-pandemic norms, more children are being separated from their mothers, putting them at greater risk of health and behavioral problems, and making them vulnerable to abuse…

ABC News

Kathleen Folbigg walks free 20 years after being convicted of killing her four children, but what happens next?

Twenty years after she was jailed for killing her four children, Kathleen Folbigg has been pardoned and released from prison. She has a few options available.

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An Australian mother jailed 20 years is pardoned and freed because of new evidence

The pardon was seen as the quickest way of getting Kathleen Folbigg out of prison, as new scientific evidence found that her four children died by natural causes as she had insisted.

The Independent UK

Australian mother imprisoned 20 years pardoned and freed because of doubt she killed her 4 children

An Australian woman who spent 20 years in prison was pardoned and released based on new scientific evidence that her four children died by natural causes as she had insisted

ABC News

Kathleen Folbigg's tragic life started long before her babies died — now she is a free woman

Kathleen Folbigg was no stranger to tragedy when all of her children died before their second birthdays. This is how someone once known as Australia's worst female serial killer was freed from prison.

Daily Record

Scots prison boss says 'no plans' to increase cell searches amid rise in drug finds

Fiona Cruickshanks claims guards spending more time searching for contraband would mean less “meaningful engagement” with prisoners.

Daily Mirror

Woman accused of killing her four kids pardoned after 20 years in prison

Kathleen Folbigg, 55, was convicted of murdering her children Patrick, Sarah and Laura, as well as manslaughter of her first child Caleb, who all died between 1989 and 1999

Irish Mirror

One of Ireland's most dangerous killers doing yoga in prison to stay calm

Violent brute Warren Dumbrell, 48, who along with his brother Jeffrey was jailed in 2011 for the murder of Chris Cawley in Inchicore, Dublin, has been spending hours every day in his cell practising his meditative poses.

The Independent UK

Far-left protesters clash with German police in Leipzig after trial verdict

Far-left supporters of a young woman given a lengthy prison sentence for participating in attacks on neo-Nazis and other extremists clashed with police in the eastern German city of Leipzig over the weekend

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