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Rapper Jahtel Williamson, 26, faces life in prison for murder of music producer Dean Pascal-Modeste

A drill rapper who featured on DJ Tim Westwood’s YouTube channel is facing life in prison for the murder of a young music producer in front of horrified parents on the school run.

Evening Standard

Joshua Allen returns to MMA training after release from prison

The MMA fighter and son of celebrity chef Rachel Allen has returned to training after serving a three month prison sentence

Irish Mirror

Abortion bans create ‘insurmountable barriers’ for incarcerated women in US

The supreme court’s overturning of Roe will make reproductive healthcare in many prisons a lot worse than it already is, experts warn

The Guardian - US

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Judge issues WA government contempt of court warning over children detained in adult prison

The WA government is warned it risks being found in contempt of court for continuing to house juvenile detainees in an adult prison, with a senior Perth judge describing what's happening as 'barbaric", "cruel" and "a form of child abuse".

ABC News

'Female acquaintance' shoves drugs down escapee's pants during prison visit

The infamous inmate, still awaiting sentencing over his brief escape, has now pleaded guilty to four more charges.

The Canberra Times

Adnan Syed may be entitled to millions from the state. Men who’ve spent decades in Maryland prisons warn it could never be enough

BALTIMORE — With the murder charges against him dropped, Adnan Syed may pursue a declaration of innocence that carries a potential $2.2 million payout from the state of Maryland.

Tribune News Service

Shuffle of juvenile prisoners lands 8 at adult penitentiary

A controversial transfer of juvenile prisoners to a temporary facility at Louisiana’s sprawling high security prison farm for adult convicts involves a shuffle of youths to and from four different lockups around the state

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Louisiana begins moving child inmates to notorious Angola prison’s former death row unit

Posters reading ‘keep trying’ and ‘caring is thinking for your heart’ cover old markers of Angola’s past

The Independent UK

Family of British-Egyptian activist on hunger strike in prison camp outside Foreign Office

They are calling on the Foreign Office to help secure his freedom, saying he is ‘really frail and can barely stand’

Evening Standard

US midterm elections: Five states to vote on ‘slavery loopholes’

Nationwide push to change rules on prison labour leads to ballot measures as US struggles to face legacy of slavery.

Al Jazeera

Russian official says 'practical' issues delay visit to POWs

A Russian diplomat says the International Committee of the Red Cross has conducted at least five visits to Ukrainian prisoners of war since Russia invaded Ukraine

The Independent UK

The amazing Glasgow crime tale of notorious safecracker Johnny 'Gentle' Ramensky

He was once regarded as the best safecracker in the world and held the record for escaping from one of Scotland's toughest jails.

Glasgow Live

Bobo slaying witness to plead guilty in federal weapons case

Court documents show a convicted felon who was released from prison after his key trial testimony about the slaying of Tennessee nursing student Holly Bobo plans to change his plea to guilty on weapons charges filed shortly after he was granted his freedom

The Independent UK

Former sex worker made famous by Hugh Grant scandal pictured on drugs charge

Divine Brown could face up to 30 years in prison if found guilty of drug charges, after an officer at Fulton County Jail in Atlanta discovered suspected cocaine inside the former sex worker's body

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The Independent UK

Slavery is on the ballot for voters in 5 US states

Voters in five states are deciding whether to close loopholes that allowed convict labor as an exception to slavery

The Independent UK

She joined Charles Manson’s cult and became a murderer. Should she be forgiven?

Patricia Krenwinkel has sought parole more than a dozen times. She was denied, again, just this month, Graig Graziosi reports

The Guardian - US

Louisiana trio imprisoned for 28 years freed after judge tosses murder convictions

Newly uncovered evidence linked police investigation into 1994 New Orleans murder to disgraced officer currently on federal death row

Chronicle Live

Prolific burglars jailed for combined total of 165 years across North East over past 10 months

In 2022, more than 60 thieves and burglars have been handed prison terms in connection with a string of offences committed across the region

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The Independent UK

Boris Becker ‘teaching yoga’ to fellow prisoners after sentence for concealing assets

Becker was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison in April

Daily Record

Drug dealer in plot to flood Scotland with heroin and coke caught with iPhone in jail

Anthony O'Hare, caged for his leading role in a drug supply plot, admitted a charge of possessing a communication device while in prison

Daily Mirror

Boris Becker 'sheds over a stone' in jail while teaching fellow inmates how to keep fit

Tennis legend Boris Becker was sentenced to 30 months in jail in April, with the German then transferred from Wandsworth prison to Huntercombe the following month

The Guardian - UK

Liberation Day by George Saunders review – a hell of a ride

The characters in these absurdly funny stories are trapped by hyper-capitalism and their own foolishness, as Saunders investigates the prisons we make for ourselves

ABC News

Friends of Australian Sean Turnell concerned after fatal bomb blast at Myanmar prison where he is being held

Amnesty International says the violence at the prison "is infuriating and heartbreaking because it shows how those detained and their visiting families are both at risk of serious harm".

Manchester Evening News

Vigilante couple 'took the law into their own hands' with a machete in revenge attack

"I want the public to know how serious this sort of behaviour is" a judge said as he sentenced the pair

Evening Standard

Bloody London: how 700 years of executions shaped the capital

From Charles I’s bloody tunic to a door from Newgate prison, the Museum of London’s new show explores how public executions shaped the capital’s landscape

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