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Payroll manager at Chicago's Art Museum charged after $2 million fraud scheme

The former employee faces up to 100 years in prison for multiple charges.

Fortune

Why did Charles Manson order killings? NU psychologist, other experts offer a new take

Chicago psychologist Alan Friedman is among experts who reviewed a 1997 prison exam and are challenging the belief that Manson was schizophrenic. Manson was convicted of orchestrating the 1969 killings of actress Sharon Tate and six others in Los Angeles.

Chicago Sun-Times

French court convicts 14 of smuggling migrants from Sri Lanka to Europe

A court in northern France has sentenced 14 Sri Lankan nationals to prison for operating a people-smuggling ring across Europe – part of a continent-wide attempt to crack down on the lucrative criminal networks.

Radio France Internationale

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Former Algerian Minister Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison

A former Algerian energy minister was sentenced in absentia Thursday to 20 years in prison for corruption. Chakib Khelil headed the energy ministry for a decade under the late president Abdelaziz Bouteflika. The Sidi M’Hamed court in Algiers also issued on Thursday prison terms of between five and 10 years…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Perverted loner who took hundreds of pictures of women's bottoms is now behind bars

Andrew Smoggie's pictures at Manchester Pride were a breach of his Sexual Harm Prevention Order

Manchester Evening News

Court agrees with artist Peter Doig that ‘Pete Doige’ painting really isn’t his

An ex-prison guard claimed he owned a Doig original he bought for $100 and accused the artist of lying when he said he didn’t paint it

The Guardian - US

Appreciation: David Crosby, dead at 81, saw the end was coming: 'I don’t have a lot of time'

David Crosby knew his days were numbered at least several years before his death was reported Thursday.

Tribune News Service

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Australia's twice extended deadline for torture prevention is today, but we've missed it again

Today marks the (already twice extended) deadline for Australia to meet its international obligation to implement torture prevention bodies. The role of these bodies is to monitor treatment and conditions in places where people are deprived of their liberty, like prisons and detention centres.

The Conversation

Former NSW police sergeant sentenced to four months in prison over child sexual abuse images

Judge Ian Bourke accepted the former policeman was searching for the sexually suggestive images for personal use not disseminating to others, but noted children are abused in the creation of such material, a court hears.

ABC News

Former NSW cop jailed for child abuse pics

A former police sergeant showed no contrition or remorse after he accessed thousands of images depicting child abuse, the judge who sent him to prison said.

AAP

Project helping women in prison stay in contact with children gets funding boost

Women inmates from Wales have to serve out their sentences in England.

The Independent UK

Vic women's jails purged of private health

Victoria will stop outsourcing health care across the state's women's prisons to a for-profit provider, conceding it hasn't always been up to scratch.

AAP

NPR uncovered secret execution tapes from Virginia. More remain hidden

Four tapes mysteriously donated to a library reveal uncertainty behind the scenes of the death chamber — and indicate the prison neglected to record evidence during an execution gone wrong.

WEKU

Public health bodies to take over care in Victorian women's prisons

The state government will end outsourcing of health care for female prisoners to a for-profit company, admitting the current arrangement "hasn't always" fulfilled duty of care.

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The Independent UK

Gallery owner arrested after being filmed hosing homeless woman

Collier Gwin faces up to six months in prison and a $2,000 fine if convicted

Dublin Live

Prisoner fighting for life after gang attack in Mountjoy jail

It is understood he was beaten up by successive groups of two men in his cell

Daily Mirror

Jet ski warning: Reckless riders face long prison sentences under new law

The Maritime and Coastguard Agency is to receive more powers to crack down on riders who cause crashes, following a rise in the power and number of jet skis on British waters

Asharq Al-Awsat

2 Swedes Get Lengthy Sentences in Russia Espionage Case

Two Iranian-born Swedish brothers were given lengthy prison sentences on Thursday for spying for Russia and its military intelligence service GRU for a decade. The oldest of the two naturalized Swedes — Peyman Kia — was sentenced to life, while his younger brother, Payam Kia, was sentenced to nine years…

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Al Jazeera

Israel releases second longest-serving Palestinian prisoner

Maher Younis, cousin of recently released Karim Younis, freed after four decades in Israeli prisons.

Irish Mirror

Mountjoy prisoner fighting for his life after being attacked by multiple groups in his cell

He had to have his spleen removed and lost a lot of blood

ABC News

Inquest into death in custody of Bernard Hector turns sights on health department in third day

On the third and final day of a coronial inquest into the final moments of Bernard Hector's life, the 31-year-old's family say they feel the coroner has heard their concerns about his treatment in a Darwin prison.

Newcastle Herald

A rare look behind the bars at one of Cessnock's maximum security prisons

Getting skills and qualifications that will help the inmates gain employment in the future means they are much less likely to re-offend.

Liverpool Echo

Career drug dealer caught red handed with heroin and graft phone only weeks after release from prison

Zack Graham had been running a county lines drug ring between Liverpool and Milton Keynes for years

Daily Record

'Remorseless' evil man who raped five-year-old girl handed lengthy prison sentence

Gareth Reilly raped the victim four times over a long period and has finally been brought to justice for his evil crimes which began in the early 2000s.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

A Philly man bragged about relieving himself in Pelosi’s office on Jan. 6. Now, he’s headed to prison

WASHINGTON — After storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, with an angry mob of supporters of former President Donald Trump, James Rahm Jr. took to Facebook to brag about what he’d done.

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