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Minister unveils sweeping plans to overhaul France's justice system

French Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti on Thursday unveiled a 60-point plan intended to redress some of the major problems in the sector. The recruitment of judges, simplifying the penal procedure, modernising civil law and the crisis in French prisons are just some of the contentious topics included.

Radio France Internationale

Channel 4 A Place in the Sun fans slam £280k 'prison cell' apartment

Yvette and Agata were looking for their forever home in Portugal

Liverpool Echo

Prison officers set to stand trial charged with manslaughter after inmate's death

Anthony Paine took his own life in his cell at HMP Liverpool nearly five years ago

Liverpool Echo

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Mexican cartel leader dies in shootout after mass jail break

An escaped Mexican cartel kingpin known as "El Neto" died after a shootout early on Thursday, four days after he fled prison in a violent mass break-out, authorities said.

Reuters

Pilot strangled British wife to death after she found he was drug smuggling, her father claims

Babis Anagnostopoulos was sentenced to life in prison for murdering Caroline while their 11-month daughter slept in the house

The Independent UK

She beat the odds to get a college education while in prison. Now free, she seeks to make the process easier for others

CHICAGO — Sandra Brown walked gingerly down a walkway to the side door of Decatur Correctional Center.

Chicago Tribune

Staff at Welsh prison given anti-corruption training after three guards have affairs with inmates

The Prison Service said it will not hesitate to punish those who break the rules

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Zimbabwe court denies opposition MP pre-trial bail for fifteenth time

In an election year, critics of the ruling Zanu-PF party are claiming political persecution over the continued incarceration of Job Sikhala

The Guardian - UK

Killer Gavin Murphy 'quiet as a mouse' after prison death threats

Gavin Murphy is doing a life sentence for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie Poole at her Finglas flat in 2021

Dublin Live

Wagner chief frees prisoners who fought in Ukraine for Russia

Yevgeny Prigozhin filmed telling convicts who served six months on the front line, ‘don’t rape women’ in Russia.

Al Jazeera

Evil killer Gavin Murphy gets death threats behind bars: "There's hardly a word out of him now"

Murphy is doing a life sentence for the murder of his beautiful girlfriend Jennie Poole

Irish Mirror

Convicted sex offender who wore Greggs jumper in mugshot arrested after weeks on run

Shaun Aver was wanted on prison recall for breaching the terms of his licence

The Independent UK

Longest-serving Palestinian prisoner released from Israeli prison

Karim Younis, 66, has been released from Israeli prisons after serving 40 years for the killing of an Israeli soldier.

Al Jazeera

Family 'destroyed' by flat tyre BMW drink-driver who killed 'kind-hearted' dad in crash

William Ludlow's family have criticised the length of Andrew Stinchcomb's prison sentence

Manchester Evening News

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"I don't care about his age... there is no way this man is safe": Victim of Greater Manchester's worst serial rapist says he should never be released

He was given multiple life sentences in October 1988 after being convicted of 11 rapes; three attempted rapes; indecent assault; and using a firearm to resist arrest

ABC News

Escapee arrested 20 kilometres from Alice Springs prison as union blames staff shortages

Police arrest a prisoner who fled from an Alice Springs prison this morning, as the union claims only six officers were on duty to manage 647 prisoners — less than half the minimum night shift requirement.

AAP

Alice Springs prison escapee captured

A 30-year-old man who escaped from the Alice Springs Correctional Facility and fled into the outback on foot has been taken into custody.

Liverpool Echo

Prison officers to appear in court on manslaughter charge

Anthony Paine took his life in HMP Liverpool, but his death later became a criminal investigation

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Al Jazeera

Architect of US college admissions scam receives prison sentence

University admissions consultant Rick Singer receives three and a half years in prison for masterminding bribery scheme.

The Independent UK

Ex-Bolivia official receives stiff jail sentence for bribes

A former Bolivian interior minister has been sentenced in the United States to nearly six years in prison for taking at least $532,000 in bribes to help a Florida company win a lucrative contract to sell tear gas to his country's government

Asharq Al-Awsat

Iran Releases Oscar-Winning Film Actress Held over Protests

Iran released a prominent actress from an Oscar-winning film on Wednesday, nearly three weeks after she was jailed for criticizing a crackdown on anti-government protests, local reports said. Iran’s semi-official ISNA news agency said Taraneh Alidoosti, the 38-year-old star of Asghar Farhadi’s Oscar-winning “The Salesman,” was released on bail. Her…

The Independent UK

Taraneh Alidoosti: Iran releases film star from prison on bail – 18 days after arrest

The actor’s arrest for supporting anti-government protests prompted shock across the country

The Independent UK

In troubled Mexico prison, inmates ruled their cell blocks

The violent prison break that killed 17 people _ mostly guards _ and resulted in the escape of 30 inmates has revealed a shocking level of self-rule by prisoners inside the troubled prison in the northern Mexico border city of Ciudad Juarez

Irish Mirror

First transgender inmate Amber McLaughlin executed in the US

The Missouri prisoner was put to death for a 2003 killing

Daily Mirror

Mum stuck in Iran jail for 13 years shares letter from inside 'hell-like' prison

As she enters her 14th year in jail in Iran, Maryam Akbari Monfared has shared a letter while also celebrating the protests that have spread throughout Iran while she has been incarcerated

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