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Dangerous driver jailed for Sturt Highway head-on crash that killed Riverland couple

A 74-year-old who admitted he was driving dangerously when he was involved in a fatal head-on crash that claimed the lives of a Riverland couple will spend more than three years behind bars, with the judge telling him "time in prison will be difficult".

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The day has arrived for Elizabeth Holmes to report to a Texas prison

Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes on Tuesday will be moving to her new home —-a federal prison where she has been sentenced to spend the next 11 years for overseeing a blood-testing hoax that became a parable about greed and hubris in Silicon Valley

The Independent UK

Report: At least 153 people arrested under special powers have died in Salvadoran prisons

At least 153 people jailed since El Salvador instituted emergency powers in March 2022 to confront the country’s powerful street gangs have died in state custody

The Independent UK

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University lecturer Adam Brown jailed for 24 years for stabbing murder of wife Chen Cheng

A man who stabbed his wife to death at their home in Melbourne's eastern suburbs after an argument over their child's kindergarten has been handed a 24-year prison sentence.

ABC News

Fact vs Fiction: White House Plumbers episode 5 — what happened during the Watergate trials?

White House Plumbers episode 5 covers the epic fallout of the Watergate break-in, but how much of what they showed was fact and what was fiction?

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Elizabeth Holmes to report to Texas prison to begin 11-year Theranos sentence - latest

Disgraced tech entrepreneur expected to report to prison in Texas this week

The Independent UK

Libya court sentences 23 to death for Islamic State campaign

A Libyan court sentenced 23 people to death and another 14 to life in prison on Monday for their role in a deadly Islamic State militant campaign that included beheading a group of Egyptian Christians and seizing the city of Sirte in 2015.

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Convicted killer who escaped Ohio prison is found dead days later in Kentucky river

Bradley Gillespie was reported missing last week, along with fellow inmate Jame Lee

The Independent UK

Libya court sentences 23 to death for ISIL campaign

Appeals court sentences 14 others to life in prison for campaign including the beheading of Egyptian Christians in 2015.

Al Jazeera

Ex-El Salvador President Mauricio Funes sentenced to 14 years for negotiating with gangs

A judge has sentenced former El Salvador President Mauricio Funes to 14 years in prison for negotiating with gangs during his administration

The Independent UK

A new anti-gay law in Uganda calls for life in prison for those who are convicted

The bill, signed into law by President Yoweri Museveni on Monday, calls for life imprisonment for anyone convicted of homosexuality. It drew swift condemnation from rights groups around the world.

WEKU

Charity for murdered boy to close as killer mum 'has own plans' after prison release

Arthur Labinjo-Hughes died in June 2020 while his mum Olivia Labinjo-Halcrow was serving a sentence for manslaughter.

Daily Record

Prisons in 'catastrophic' state with space set to run out in six weeks, jail chiefs warn

Prison Governors’ Association President Andrea Albutt accused the Government of 'lying' to the public by telling them 'that locking up more people and for longer increases public safety'

Daily Mirror

Career car crook took 'umpteenth' vehicle and crashed it through garden wall

Ricky Davies's advocate told the court his client could not recall a time in the last 23 years was he was not either in prison, on licence from prison, or serving a community order

Wales Online

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Irish Mirror

Irish taxpayers to foot the bill for new prison university courses

Criminal masterminds will be able to avail of university courses and some will even be able to go on to do PhDs allowing them to put 'Dr' ahead of their name.

Reuters

Poland sanctions 365 Belarusians over journalist's imprisonment

Poland has imposed sanctions on a further 365 Belarusian citizens over the imprisonment of a journalist of Polish origin in Belarus, the interior ministry said on Monday, amid rising tensions between Warsaw and Minsk.

Edinburgh Live

The prison-like Edinburgh estate whose architect 'should have got the jail'

For many, 'The Ramps' in West Granton was a thriving community and a great place to grow up, while others say living there was a nightmare with the estate resembling a mini warzone.

Manchester Evening News

Jilted drugs boss sent lackey to slash ex-girlfriend's tyres after she refused to take him back

Thomas Rayment told his frightened ex: "You call the police about this, it's going to be the worst decision you have ever made in your life"

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Reuters

Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai loses bid to terminate national security trial

A Hong Kong Court on Monday rejected an application to terminate a landmark national security trial against media tycoon Jimmy Lai, a case that could see him spend the rest of his life in prison if convicted.

ABC News

Paedophile father guilty of sex crimes against daughter jailed for more than a decade

An Adelaide man has been sentenced to up to 14 years in prison after pleading guilty to multiple sexual crimes against his daughter. WARNING: This story contains details readers may find distressing.

Pedestrian.tv

Convicted Killer Chris Dawson On Trial Over Alleged Relationship With One Of His Students

Dawson was last year sentenced to 24 years in prison over the murder of his wife Lynette Simms.

The Independent UK

Read Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner’s bombshell prison letters for the first time

The 45-year-old German is currently halfway through a prison sentence for raping a 72-year-old American woman in the Algarve in 2005

Daily Mirror

Ukrainian prisoners are 'electrocuted and pray for death' in Russian torture jail

Alexander Tarasov, a former inmate of Russia's Simferopol Detention Centre, has opened up about life inside, and how innocent civilians are tortured

Liverpool Echo

EncroChat ‘Carbonzero’, racist thug and woman beater among criminals jailed this week

Here are the faces of six criminals jailed this week

Daily Record

Landlines to replace mobile phones in Scots prisons after devices used to arrange gangland crimes

Handsets were handed out to inmates to keep them connected with loved ones during the pandemic.

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