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Todd and Julie Chrisley to report to prison in Florida in January

ATLANTA — Reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley have been ordered to serve out their sentences for bank fraud and tax evasion in a Florida prison starting in January.

Tribune News Service

‘It feels so good to be home’ Brittney Griner speaks out for first time after dramatic prisoner swap

She plans on playing basketball again next season for the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury

Evening Standard

Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Feather bans, tent curtilage, and youngsters and their sweets.

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Yoorrook Justice Commission hears Victorian bail laws are criminalising Aboriginal people, especially women

Victorians are being refused bail for offences so minor they might never have warranted a sentence of imprisonment, with a disproportionate number of Indigenous offenders ending up on remand, a truth-telling inquiry has heard.

ABC News

QAnon Capitol rioter who chased police officer Eugene Goodman sentenced to five years in prison

QAnon believer Douglas Jensen would have caused “tremendous bloodshed” if not for Capitol police officer’s bravery, court hears

The Independent UK

Nottinghamshire arsonist set ex-girlfriend's family home on fire 'to be the hero'

The family - two adults and two children - were asleep when Gilluley woke them after starting the blaze. Declan Gilluley, 26, of Cox's Lane, Mansfield Woodhouse, has been sent to prison after pleading guilty to reckless arson.

Nottingham Post

GAA match between politicians and inmates in Mountjoy Prison almost suspended after balls burst on overhead razor wires

It is understood that the cross-party group of 13 TDs and Senators was 'hammered' by the team of prisoners

Irish Mirror

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QAnon follower who chased officer on Jan. 6 gets 5 years

An Iowa construction worker has been sentenced to five years in prison after being at the center of of one of the most harrowing scenes of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol

The Independent UK

Brittney Griner says she will return to playing basketball

In first remarks since returning to the US, WNBA star thanks all who pushed for her release from Russian prison.

Al Jazeera

QAnon believer who led Capitol mob on Jan. 6 sentenced to five years in prison

He led a mob toward Capitol Police officer Eugene Goodman outside the Senate chamber.

Axios

Brittney Griner speaks out for first time since her release from Russian prison

The WNBA star thanked President Joe Biden and called for continued efforts to bring Paul Whelan home

The Independent UK

Lawyer of Whitmer kidnap plotter: He doesn't deserve to spend life in prison

Barry Croft did not recruit, lead or control men convicted of plotting to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and does not deserve to spend the rest of his life in federal prison, his lawyer wrote in a court filing late Thursday.

Tribune News Service

Before Maharashtra withdrew award, 2 bodies ‘with RSS links’ objected to Kobad Ghandy memoir

The withdrawal of a Maharashtra government award to the Marathi translation of Kobad Ghandy’s prison memoir over “administrative reasons” has triggered a controversy within academic and literary circles, and its translator Anagha Lele surprised.

Newslaundry

Brittney Griner prisoner swap AP Sports Story of the Year

The return of Brittney Griner to the United States in a dramatic prisoner swap with Russia marked the culmination of a 10-month ordeal that captivated world attention, a saga that landed at the intersection of sports, politics, race and gender identity — and wartime diplomacy

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Daily Mirror

Iranian regime U-turns on decision to execute 16-year-old girl as crowd demands release

Sonia Sharifi, 16, was set to be killed yesterday, but was thankfully released from Ilam prison in western Iran at around 3pm after being held there for a month

Asharq Al-Awsat

Jordan Hands Prison Terms to Captagon Smugglers from Syria

Jordan's judiciary on Thursday sentenced two men to long prison terms for attempting to smuggle nearly 2 million Captagon pills into the country from Syria, a judicial source told AFP. The state security court handed a 20-year prison term and a fine of 20,000 Jordanian dinars ($28,000) to one of…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Houthis Abuse Dozens of Detainees in Sanaa Prison

For the fourth day in a row, dozens of detainees in the central prison in Sanaa continued their hunger strike. They are protesting their detention, torture, and humiliation by Houthi militias. Houthis, according to the relatives of detainees, responded to the hunger strike by stepping up its exemplary punishment of…

Reuters

Kosovo tribunal convicts former KLA commander in first war crimes verdict

In a milestone ruling judges at the Kosovo tribunal on Friday convicted a former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) guerrilla commander who ran a prison where torture took place during the 1998-99 independence conflict with Serbia.

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Los Angeles Times

Robin Abcarian: Is the documentary 'Navalny' a life insurance policy for the imprisoned Russian opposition leader?

As Vladimir Putin wages his misbegotten war on Ukraine, there's another, quieter war he's prosecuting, this one against a 46-year-old man who sits in a Russian prison, in solitary confinement, on trumped-up charges of fraud.

The Guardian - UK

White Torture by Narges Mohammadi review – solitary savagery

An Iranian political activist, now in jail herself, interviews 12 female prisoners of the Islamic Republic about their experiences

The Guardian - UK

European MPs seek to publicise plight of jailed Iranian protesters

Politicians particularly in Germany taking responsibility for lobbying for the safety of individual prisoners

The Independent UK

California sex offender gets life for killing 4 women

A California sex offender who kidnapped, raped and killed four women, some of them while wearing a GPS tracker, has been sentenced to life in prison without parole

Los Angeles Times

Orange County serial killer Franc Cano gets life in prison after guilty pleas

SANTA ANA, Calif. — Franc Cano, who with an accomplice abducted and killed several women in Anaheim and Santa Ana while on sex-offender probation, pleaded guilty to murder Thursday after prosecutors dropped their call for the death penalty.

AAP

Indigenous women, kids at risk in custody

Indigenous women and children are among the most vulnerable and largely over-represented groups in custody, a truth-telling inquiry has been told.

AAP

Convicted ex-wife killer claims innocence

Adrian Basham continues to maintain his innocence despite being convicted of murdering his estranged wife Samantha Fraser earlier this year.

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