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‘You must help them’: Lone asylum-seeking children reveal trauma of Manston centre

One 16-year-old said he was forced to sleep on leftover food boxes, while another says he was shouted at for asking for food

The Independent UK

Fireworks time limits - latest times they can be set off during Halloween and Bonfire Night week

Anybody caught breaking the fireworks cut off curfew or using them dangerously can be fined and even face a six month prison sentence

Chronicle Live

Ireland's most haunted places: From creepy castles to devil worshippers in the Dublin mountains

Loftus Hall is said to have hosted the devil and is home to poltergeists and ghosts walking through its many corridors

Irish Mirror

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Addict who tried to burn down family home turns his life around with recovery company

Daniel Fincham's bad relationship with alcohol hit rock bottom when he gambled away £16k in an hour and then lit up his family's home with him inside it.

Daily Record

Jail term to third term: The inside story of Lula’s comeback

During his bleakest days, one of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s favorite cooks traveled 800 miles from the capital to the city where he was imprisoned for graft to make him a rabada, a typical Brazilian dish of oxtail.

Tribune News Service

Lying Illinois prison officers go unpunished in 2018 inmate death, despite convictions of three guards

Testimony in the case came from six Illinois Department of Corrections employees who admitted they lied to investigators. None has faced punishment, and they all continue to get regular pay increases.

Chicago Sun-Times

'Quite possible' Bolsonaro won't accept results of Brazil's presidential election

It was a nail-biting race, but in the end Brazil's former – and now future – left-wing president came out on top. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has defeated far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in a highly polarised presidential run-off. The win marks an incredible comeback for Lula, who after spending…

France 24

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In Britain, a jail sentence is often a death sentence. What’s going on in our prisons?

Last year, 371 people died behind closed doors. We want justice for them – and an end to a cruel system, say Inquest’s Deborah Coles and Jessica Pandian

The Guardian - UK

US Woman Who Led Female ISIS Battalion in Syria Faces up to 20 Years in Prison

An American woman who grew up on a farm in Kansas and joined ISIS in Syria, where she led an all-female military battalion, is to be sentenced Tuesday for providing support to a foreign terrorist group. Allison Fluke-Ekren, 42, faces up to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Baby-faced killer and drugs boss who lived lavish lifestyle among Greater Manchester criminals caged last week

A teenaged murderer and a violent thug who attacked his girlfriend are among the region's newest prison inmates

Manchester Evening News

The men exonerated in the Malcolm X killing will receive $36 million

The city and state of New York agreed to pay $36 million to two men who were exonerated for the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X after wrongful convictions led to both men spending decades behind bars.

WEKU

Aaron Hyde sentenced over 2020 riot that caused an estimated $20 million in damage to Darwin’s adult prison

A prisoner who broke into prohibited areas and helped light a fire at the Darwin Correctional Centre will spend an extra year behind bars for his role in the 2020 riot.

ABC News

OAP who killed Renee MacRae and toddler son breaks hip in Scots jail

Frail William MacDowell can’t be returned to jail after breaking his hip just a few weeks into his sentence.

Daily Record

Brazil leftist Lula wins third presidential term to redeem tarnished legacy

Brazilian leftist leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won a third presidential term on Sunday in a remarkable comeback for the country's first working class president, whose storied political career nearly ended in prison.

Reuters

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40 years ago, protesters were celebrated for saving the Franklin River. Today they could be jailed for months

The 1982 campaign to stop the building of Tasmania’s Franklin River dam was a defining moment in the history of Australia’s social movements. Those events are now being recounted in the documentary Franklin, screening throughout the country.

Axios

Men wrongly convicted of Malcolm X murder to receive $36 million from New York City and state

Muhammad Aziz and Khalil Islam spent decades in prison after the civil rights leader was assassinated in 1965.

ABC News

POW Requiem premieres in Canberra to honour Australian World War II prisoners

The POW Requiem, featuring 24 movements, was performed over the weekend for the first time, in honour of Australia's thousands of World War II prisoners.

ABC News

Adelaide schoolboy who allegedly possessed extremist material to be sentenced as an adult

A 15-year-old Adelaide schoolboy who allegedly possessed extremist material and coached others online about how to make bombs will be sentenced as an adult, meaning he could face up to 15 years in prison.

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The Guardian - UK

New York city and state to pay $36m to men cleared of murder of Malcolm X

Payments to follow exoneration of Muhammad Aziz and the late Khalil Islam who both spent decades in prison

The Independent UK

Men exonerated in Malcolm X killing to receive $36 million

The city of New York will settle lawsuits filed on behalf of two men who were exonerated last year for the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X

ABC News

No decision about air conditioning at Roebourne Prison, as another summer of heatwaves looms

The government says it will not install air conditioning in cells at Roebourne Prison despite internal temperatures soaring over 50 degrees Celsius.

Manchester Evening News

I had a dream house, top job and a loving family but lost it all to alcohol and gambling

Dad-of-three Daniel Fincham downed four bottles of wine a day and blew £16,000 in an hour until he hit rock bottom

The Independent UK

Families get final say before Parkland shooter is sentenced

Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz will be sentenced to life in prison this week, but not before the families of the 17 people he murdered get the chance to tell him what they think

The Independent UK

Records: Lying officers unpunished in 2018 inmate death

Three former Illinois prison guards face life in prison for a beating that led to the death of inmate Larry Earvin in 2018

Daily Mirror

Guantanamo Bay's oldest prisoner freed after being held for 18 years without charge

Saifullah Paracha was captured in an FBI sting two years after the 9/11 attacks and has been locked up ever since despite never being charged of a crime

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