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Commentary: How blasphemy laws are used to serve political ends

On Jan. 17, Pakistan’s National Assembly unanimously voted to expand the country’s laws on blasphemy, which already carried the death penalty for insulting the prophet Muhammad. Now anyone in Pakistan deemed to have insulted the prophet’s companions, which could include thousands of early Muslims, can face life imprisonment.

Los Angeles Times

Man freed after 28 YEARS for murder he always denied as 'evidence of innocence' found

Lamar Johnson was freed from jai after serving 28 years of a life sentence for a killing he didn't commit, after a Missouri judge overturned his conviction

Daily Mirror

Buffalo supermarket gunman set to receive life prison term

A white supremacist is set to be sentenced to life in prison for killing 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket

The Independent UK

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Man freed after nearly three decades in prison as murder conviction overturned

A Missouri judge has overturned the conviction of a 50-year-old man who has served nearly 28 years of a life prison sentence for a killing that he says he didn’t commit

The Independent UK

Cooma 'gay prison' podcasters call for government apology for entrapment, persecution of homosexual men

They uncovered a shameful secret in the history of persecution of homosexuality in Australia, now the producers of The Greatest Menace podcast are pressing for a formal apology from the NSW government.

ABC News

Mum feared she was going to die during former prison officer's sex attack

The mum has spoken to The ECHO in the hope of encouraging other victims of sexual assault to report crimes to police

Liverpool Echo

UK's longest-serving female prisoner who killed love rival may be released after 35 years

Maria Pearson, now 66, stabbed her ex-partner's new girlfriend Janet Newton to death in a Hartlepool street in 1986 and reportedly could soon be released after 35 years in jail

Daily Mirror

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One of the deadliest federal prison units is closing

The Bureau of Prisons is shutting down a unit at its newest penitentiary in Illinois, following an investigation by NPR and The Marshall Project that exposed it was rife with violence and abuse.

WEKU

Judge throws out Missouri man’s conviction, confirming his innocence in 1994 murder

Long before he had a graying beard, Lamar Johnson wrote to the St. Louis judge who oversaw his 1995 trial, saying he had received letters from another man admitting guilt to the murder for which he had just been convicted.

Tribune News Service

Report: Tech CEO who played in upscale golf events while employees went unpaid raided by FBI, charged with fraud

If he's found guilty of the charges, he could face up to 20 years in prison.

USA Today Sports Media Group

California’s housing shortage is so bad a university is considering a floating barge as a dorm. Students call it ‘prison boat.’

“There are simply not enough housing options available either on campus or in the community,” a spokesperson for Cal Poly Humboldt confirmed to Fortune.

Fortune

Judge vacates conviction of man imprisoned nearly 3 decades

A Missouri judge has overturned the conviction of a 50-year-old man who has served nearly 28 years of a life prison sentence for a killing that he says he didn’t commit

The Independent UK

‘Pharma bro’ Martin Shkreli’s quest for a shelter cat doomed by TikTok braggadocio—and a lie on his application

“My past keeps haunting me,” Shkreli told Fortune of his run-in with a Queens shelter, adding that he’s “devastated” by his rejection.

Fortune

Ex-Bloomingdale Township highway commissioner gets prison for kickback scheme

Robert Czernek got more than three years in prison in bill-padding scam that bilked west suburban township out of more than $500,000.

Chicago Sun-Times

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France 24

If Putin succeeds in Ukraine, NATO borders will 'no longer be an obstacle', warns Khodorkovsky

Former Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who served 10 years in prison on tax and fraud charges that many believe were politically motivated, spoke to FRANCE 24 from London, where he now lives in exile. Khodorkovsky said that while a "direct confrontation with NATO" was not part of Russian President…

Nottingham Post

HMP Lowdham Grange management changes hands in £264m deal

It had been run by Serco since it was opened in 1998

Wales Online

The moment a teen serving a driving ban rode his new e-scooter straight into a moving car

Ryan Thomas was charged with driving the scooter while banned from driving and has been sent to a young offenders institute for six months

The Independent UK

Increased prison sentences for pair who helped killers evade police

Kane Hull and Liam Porter went on the run for 10 days, including travelling to Ireland, before being arrested over the murder of Ryan Kirkpatrick.

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Daily Mirror

Kenneth Noye's life of violence - two deaths and marriage to legal barrister's secretary

Career criminal Kenneth Noye lived a violent life of crime which resulted in the death of two innocent people. Here we take a closer look at his childhood, marriage and convictions

The Conversation

By policing history, Poland's government is distorting the Holocaust

In January 2018, the Polish parliament passed a law that imposed prison terms of up to three years of anyone who claimed Poles had any responsibility for or complicity in crimes committed by the Nazis during the Holocaust.

Los Angeles Times

San Quentin State Prison captain accused of sexually assaulting an unconscious person

A San Quentin State Prison captain was arrested last week on suspicion of sexually assaulting someone who was unconscious.

Wales Online

Drunk man broke into ex partner's home using brick day after release from prison for beating her

Thomas Morgan, 34, was seen on a door bell cam stumbling from a taxi as he approached the victim Barry home, which he was prevented from attending by a restraining order

Irish Mirror

Caged killer Michael Leonard - who burned woman alive - is treated in Cork hospital

Murderer Leonard is bedridden just eight weeks into life sentence for setting fire to a woman he had become obsessed with

Manchester Evening News

'He made me feel worthless - I was carrying his child but the beatings and abuse carried on'

Jordan Burton, 22, had attacked the woman whilst she was pregnant

Al Jazeera

400 love letters and a play: How two Indian prisoners found love

A former forest bandit and a trafficking survivor found love – and purpose – while serving life sentences in prison.

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