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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

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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

‘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

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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’

Financial Times

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.

The New Daily

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.

ABC News

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.

AAP

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.

Bangkok Post

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

The Independent UK

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

Evening Standard

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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

Wales Online

Notorious prisoner Charles Bronson’s full list of crimes

Dubbed one of Britain's most violent offenders, Bronson has spent most of the past 48 years in prison

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Sunderland thug bragged 'it's a cruel world' as he videoed himself attacking unconscious man

Jordan Scott, 24, filmed himself carrying out a 'disturbing' attack on a man who lay unconscious on the floor

The Guardian - UK

Prisoner Charles Bronson tells parole hearing ‘I just want to go out and do my art’

One of UK’s longest serving and most notorious prisoners says he is now a ‘man of peace’

The Independent UK

Charles Bronson on prison, his violent past and his wishes for the future

Giving evidence in what is only the second ever parole hearing to be held in public in England and Wales, Bronson held forth on various topics.

Daily Mirror

Charles Bronson: 8 bizarre remarks notorious prisoner made during public parole hearing

Dubbed one of Britain's most violent offenders, Charles Bronson - who changed his surname to Salvador in 2014 after the artist Salvador Dali - has been in prison for much of the last 50 years

The Independent UK

‘More porridge than Goldilocks’: Charles Bronson’s parole review full of bizarre revelations and expletives

‘I have had more porridge than Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and I’m sick of it,’ says 70-year-old

The Independent UK

Belarus hands exiled opposition leader 15-year jail sentence

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya and four other opposition figures were tried in their absence in Minsk – on charges decried by human rights organisations

The Independent UK

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

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