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Man who spat in PC’s eye spared a jail term as ‘prisons are too full’

A man who spat in a police officer’s face has been spared a stint in jail after a judge said Britain’s prisons are too full to take on extra inmates.

Evening Standard

Iran drives number of imprisoned journalists worldwide to record high

Iran's protest crackdown has helped push the number of journalists imprisoned worldwide to a record high of 533 in 2022, according to a report by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) published Wednesday.

France 24

Iran Pushes Global List of Imprisoned Journalists to Record High

Iran's protest crackdown has helped push the number of journalists imprisoned worldwide to a record high of 533 in 2022, according to a report by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) published Wednesday. The figure is up from 488 in 2021, already a record, according to the France-based NGO.

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Climate activist Deanna ‘Violet’ Coco reveals why she was prepared to risk jail time

Exclusive: In her first interview since being released from prison, Coco recalls how bushfires three years ago sparked her epiphany

The Guardian - AU

Man avoids adult prison for Xmas day death

A 19-year-old man has been sentenced to a youth detention centre for the Christmas Day manslaughter of a Victorian grandfather.

AAP

Griner ‘Heartbroken’ Over Ex-Marine Imprisoned in Russia, per Agent

The WNBA star is reportedly “heartbroken” that the former U.S. Marine remains behind bars in Russia.

Sports Illustrated

Sam Bankman-Fried faces up to 115 years' prison if convicted on FTX fraud

WASHINGTON: Sam Bankman-Fried faces up to 115 years in prison if he’s convicted on all eight charges filed by the US Department of Justice on Tuesday — though he’s unlikely to be sentenced to that long a term.

The Times of India

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Zara Aleena’s killer facing life for brutal sexually motivated attack

Jordan McSweeney had targeted more than one woman before he preyed on the 35-year-old as she walked home from a night out early on June 26.

The Independent UK

Prisons chief: Official who beat inmates deserves 2nd chance

The director of the federal Bureau of Prisons is defending her decision to rally behind a high-ranking agency official who climbed the ranks after beating Black inmates, saying Tuesday that she feels he’s shown contrition and deserves a second chance

The Independent UK

6 people accused of taking orders from Mexican Mafia face kidnapping, gun and drug charges in San Diego

SAN DIEGO — A three-month investigation in southeastern San Diego resulted in charges against five men and a woman who authorities say planned violent crimes, sold drugs and stored guns in a house at the direction of the Mexican Mafia prison gang, officials announced Tuesday.

Tribune News Service

‘I don’t know if you have a soul’: Prolific Wicked Town killer gets 50 years in prison

Relatives of Darius Murphy’s victims told a judge during a somber hearing Tuesday that Murphy should never walk free again.

Chicago Sun-Times

Work, education and training at HMP Northumberland fails to meet expected standard, reveals inspection report

The Chief Inspector of Prisons has documented how the prison is safer than during the last inspection in 2017

Chronicle Live

Witness who helped convict man: Testimony still 'haunts' him

A witness whose testimony helped send a man to prison for a killing decades ago has testified his role in the case of Lamar Johnson “still haunts" him

The Independent UK

Judge rules against Oklahoma in attempt to execute inmate

A federal judge in Texas has rejected Oklahoma's attempt to have a federal prisoner transferred to state custody so he can be executed

The Independent UK

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Miami Herald

More Ghislaine Maxwell documents are released, but the secrets remain under lock and key

MIAMI — Ghislaine Maxwell calls a Tallahassee federal prison home, but the convicted sex trafficker’s secrets are still being closely guarded.

Radio France Internationale

French court convicts all 8 suspects in 2016 Nice terror attack trial

A French court on Tuesday jailed eight suspects charged in the harrowing 2016 attack in Nice, in which a suspected Islamist terrorist ploughed his truck into a crowd celebrating the 14 July national holiday resulting in the deaths of 86 people.

The Guardian - UK

World Rugby in crisis after Bernard Laporte fined on corruption charges

The vice-chairman of World Rugby, Bernard Laporte, has been fined £64,500 and given a two-year suspended sentence nine months before the World Cup in France

Zenger

WNBA’s Griner Is Happy To Be Home After Prisoner Exchange

The American basketball star was traded for Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout — but some were critical of the swap.

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Daily Mirror

World Rugby chief Bernard Laporte gets suspended prison sentence on corruption charges

French rugby federation president Bernard Laporte has been given a two-year suspended prison sentence and fined after being found guilty of corruption and having an 'illegal taking of interests'

ABC News

The training program that's both helping prisoners and tackling Australia's skills shortage

This new program is giving prisoners a second chance – and addressing one of Australia's major skills shortages.

France 24

French court convicts all eight suspects over 2016 truck attack in Nice

A French court on Tuesday ordered prison terms for eight suspects charged in the harrowing 2016 terror attack in Nice, where a suspected Islamist attacker ploughed his truck into a crowd celebrating the July 14 national holiday.

Irish Mirror

Jonathan Dowdall tells court Kinahans didn't start feud and that he found out 'real story' in prison years after helping Hutch side

“If I knew what I knew later on I wouldn’t have got involved.”

Radio France Internationale

Far-left French MP gets four months suspended prison term for domestic abuse

Adrien Quatennens, a French MP belonging to the France Unbowed party has received a four month suspended prison sentence after being found guilty on charges relating to domestic violence.

Reuters

German cum-ex mastermind handed 8-year jail sentence for tax fraud

A tax lawyer, alleged to have masterminded one of Germany's biggest post-war frauds, was sentenced to eight years in jail on Tuesday after a landmark trial that has gripped the country.

The Independent UK

Paroled Indonesia bombmaker apologizes for 2002 Bali attack

An Indonesian militant who was paroled last week after serving about half of his original 20-year prison sentence for making the explosives used in the 2002 Bali bombings has apologized to victims’ families

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