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Alabama extends time for executions, ends automatic review

Alabama has changed death penalty procedures to give the prison system longer to carry out executions — a move that comes after a string of troubled lethal injections in the state — and also eliminated an automatic review for trial errors

The Independent UK

Mexican president says his government will consider 'El Chapo' return request

Mexico’s president said Wednesday his government will consider a plea by imprisoned drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to be returned to Mexico, presumably to serve out his sentence.

France 24

Deputy NT Corrections Commissioner David Thompson takes stand at coronial inquest into Bernard Hector death inside Darwin prison

The Northern Territory's deputy corrections commissioner David Thompson defended the conduct of staff, saying 'no concerns' were raised as to Bernard Thompson's mental health prior to his death.

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Prison nurse avoids being struck off over chats with sex attacker

Rachael Donegan is instead suspended from the nursing register for 12 months

Liverpool Echo

Mexican president says he'll consider 'El Chapo' request

Mexico's president says his government will consider a plea by imprisoned drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to be returned to Mexico, presumably to serve out his sentence

The Independent UK

Faces of condemned as Iranian freedom protesters face execution or death under regime

Shadow Minister for the Middle East and North Africa Bambos Charalambous gave just a snapshot of the estimated 18,000 arrested since the Mahsa Amini protests began last September

Daily Mirror

Deportation punishment for activism against Israel, Hammouri says

Palestinian Salah Hammouri, whom Israel deported to France, plans to make his return to Jerusalem his life’s work.

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Mom 'livid' after key figure in teen's death gets parole

A man who told police that he placed a Detroit-area teen's body in a trash bin has been released from prison after less than a year

The Independent UK

Man who broke into home of his wheelchair user ex-girlfriend and assaulted her avoids jail

The victim wrote a letter urging the judge not to send him to prison

Irish Mirror

Wife of Most Wanted criminal shares life with husband stuck behind bars for 21 years

The wife of a man who served 21 years behind bars for a non-violent crime said the stories of their partners can go untold. Diane Ferranti met her husband Seth in 1993, but months later he was facing a huge part of his life in jail

Daily Mirror

Convicted murderer arrested in Ayrshire after absconding from English prison

A CONVICTED murderer who absconded from an English prison has been arrested in Irvine.

The National (Scotland)

Reckless jet skiers face prison and unlimited fines under new law

The Maritime and Coastguard Agency will be given powers from March 31 to prosecute people misusing the recreational craft.

The Independent UK

Terry Irving spent 1,671 days in jail for a crime he didn’t commit – and 25 more years seeking justice

Australia is the world’s only democracy that fails to offer statutory legal remedy for those wrongfully imprisoned

The Guardian - AU

Mafia boss Messina Denaro held in top security Italian prison

Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro was being held on Wednesday in a high-security jail in central Italy, subject to special restrictions applied to the country's most dangerous prisoners.

Reuters

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Liverpool Echo

Murderer behind brutal attack back behind bars after escape from prison

Paul Gerrard was jailed for life for the murder of David Argent in Widnes

Manchester Evening News

Manchester murderer found in Scotland weeks after going on the run from prison

'Dangerous' Paul Gerrard absconded from HMP Kirkham last month

Liverpool Echo

Escaped prisoner could be hiding on Merseyside

Police are trying to track down Paul Clohessy who failed to return to prison

Daily Mirror

Suspect who escaped prison van in just his pants caught after two days on the run

Semi-naked prisoner Kyle Eglington escaped from the van through the side door and fled on foot having just appeared at Poole Magistrates' Court for "an offence he had not committed"

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The Texas Tribune

Texas teens embark on an idealistic quest to shut down the state’s last five youth prisons

Spurred by reports of inhumane conditions at Texas Juvenile Justice Department facilities, Austin-area teenagers are lobbying the Legislature to reform the system.

Chicago Tribune

Commentary: Legislators can’t make effective laws for incarcerated people without seeing prisons

Illinois has inaugurated its 103rd General Assembly, with a host of new legislators.

The Guardian - US

FBI’s opposition to releasing Leonard Peltier driven by vendetta, says ex-agent

Exclusive: retired FBI agent Coleen Rowley calls for clemency for Indigenous activist who has been in prison for nearly 50 years

The Independent UK

3 get life in slaying of Michigan guard over face mask order

A married couple and their son convicted of first-degree premeditated murder in the fatal shooting of a security guard who demanded the woman’s daughter wear a mask while shopping have been sentenced to life in prison without parole

Al Jazeera

‘Prison after prison’: Debts trap foreigners in Vietnamese jails

At least 16 foreigners continue to be held over alleged unpaid debts and compensation despite completing jail terms.

Bangkok Post

Duo win appeal in model death case

The Appeal Court on Tuesday acquitted two of six defendants sentenced by a lower court to between five and eight years in prison in connection with the death of a model who died after she was hired to entertain party guests in Nonthaburi in 2019.

Los Angeles Times

Todd and Julie Chrisley begin prison sentences with social media love from their kids

Todd Chrisley and Julie Chrisley have traded airtime for jail time as the reality TV stars reported to prison for their yearslong sentences Tuesday.

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