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Jail for assaulting NSW frontline workers

People who assault NSW frontline workers - including paramedics, prison officers, hospital staff and firefighters - could be jailed under new laws.

AAP

NSW using prisoners as political pawns, critics say, after state refuses to let UN inspectors into detention facility

Queensland also revealed to be restricting access to mental health wards, despite Australia’s ratification of UN torture protocol

The Guardian - AU

Ex-UCLA student linked to extremists gets Jan. 6 prison term

A former UCLA student who stormed the U.S. Capitol while waving a flag promoting a far-right extremist movement has been sentenced to three years and six months in prison for his role in a mob’s attack on the building

The Independent UK

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A former UCLA student was sentenced to over three years in prison for Capitol riot

Christian Secor, a former UCLA student and follower of the far-right racist livestreamer Nick Fuentes, was sentenced on Wednesday for obstructing congress during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

WEKU

Saudi Government Sentences U.S. Citizen to 16 Years in Prison for Anti-Regime Tweets Posted from U.S.

Axios (Shawna Chen) reports, as does an opinion piece in the Washington Post (Josh Rogin) (paywalled). From the Post: [L]ast November, when [American citizen Saad Ibrahim Almadi] traveled to Riyadh to visit family, he was detained regarding 14 tweets posted on his account over the previous seven years. One of…

Reason

Florida Corrections Officers Paralyzed A Man, Then Left Him in Solitary Confinement

Craig Ridley died after corrections officers paralyzed him in a beating then left him without medical care for days.

Reason

Sex offender gets life for killing teen during 2009 vacation

A man has been sentenced to life in prison after confessing to the 2009 killing of a 17-year-old girl who disappeared while on a beach vacation in South Carolina

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Brittney Griner sends message from Russian prison on birthday: ‘Thanks for fighting to get me home’

Basketball player, who was arrested at Moscow airport after authorities found vape canisters, thanks supporters

The Guardian - US

Wales v All Blacks pitch intruder gets suspended prison sentence and two-year ban over cricket incident

Daniel Jarvis appeared in court and was banned from attending sporting events in England and Wales

Wales Online

Brittney Griner gets support as she spends her 32nd birthday in Russian prison

“Thank you everyone for fighting so hard to get me home. All the support and love are definitely helping me,” Griner said in a statement.

Chicago Sun-Times

Slimmed down Boris Becker reportedly teaching yoga in prison

Former Wimbledon champion trains at Huntercombe prison where he is serving time for hiding assets, German tabloid reports

The Guardian - UK

Inside haunted jail where murderers were caged - and you can now stay as hotel guest

Every room in this bizarre hostel is a former prison cell complete with the names of the inmates incarcerated in them – you can even visit death row

Daily Mirror

Prison nurse who had 'inappropriate relationship' with inmate jailed

Elyse Hibbs shared 'flirtatious' calls and texts messages with the unnamed inmate over several weeks.

Daily Record

Brittney Griner will have prison sentence appeal heard by Russian court later this month

Two-time Olympic gold medalist was convicted on 4 August over cannabis oil vape canisters in luggage

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Daily Mirror

The ‘brain eater’ who sleeps on concrete slab in glass box after murdering three inmates

Robert Maudsley murdered other inmates in horrific and brutal ways and was deemed unsafe to keep around other prisoners so has been locked in a cell deep below Wakefield Prison ever since

The Independent UK

Stephen Curry honors Brittney Griner during Warriors ring ceremony

Stephen Curry took the microphone in the middle of Golden State’s championship ring ceremony Tuesday night to make an impassioned plea in support of Brittney Griner as the WNBA star spent her 32nd birthday in a Russian prison

Wales Online

Molly Russell's dad said jailing executives at 'unsafe' social media platforms should be an option

Ian Russell said it would "refocus their minds" if senior social media executives faced a prison sentence for not protecting users of their platform properly after the death of his daughter Molly, 14

The Conversation

How college in prison is leading professors to rethink how they teach

When it comes to education in prison, policy and research often focus on how it benefits society or improves the life circumstances of those who are serving time.

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Daily Mirror

Myanmar jail: Girl, 10, among eight dead after explosions and gunfire erupt at prison

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: An eyewitness said a number of civilians were present when the explosions occurred, as they were at the prison delivering food to their imprisoned relatives in Yangon, Myanmar

The Independent UK

‘At death’s door’: Family of Briton on hunger strike in Egypt urges action ahead of Cop27

‘If the UK does not engage right now the Egyptians authorities will see it as a green light to let him die,’ says sister Alaa Abdel-Fattah

Evening Standard

Streatham: Driver admits killing passenger in crash after police chase

India Thompson is facing a prison sentence following her guilty plea

The Independent UK

Woman born in prison amazed to realise her birth father kept treasured photograph

Tiegan Boyens, 20, from York, was amazed to realise her birth father had treasured her ultrasound picture for all those years.

Daily Mirror

Man sentenced to 16 years in prison for criticising Saudi Arabia regime on Twitter

Speaking publicly for the first time, his son has alleged that the Saudi government has tortured his father in prison and said that the US State Department mishandled the case

The Independent UK

Blasts kill at least 8 at Myanmar's Insein Prison

A bombing near the front gate of Myanmar’s main prison for political detainees has killed at least eight people, including visitors and prison personnel

Salon

Will Biden fix our federal prisons?

Frederick Bardell wasn't much of a hero — but no convict deserves a death sentence by slow medical torture

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