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Young, underground reporters ‘fight a gun with a pen’ in Myanmar

The 15-year-old reporter deleted the data from her phone and packed up her guitar as she set out to meet a guerrilla fighter in Myanmar. The instrument was mostly a decoy, there to disguise her work as a journalist. She cleared the data from her phone to protect her sources…

Bangkok Post

Feds ask judge to sentence ex-Teamster boss John Coli to 19 months in prison

John Coli once bragged, “You can cut my fingers off, I wouldn’t talk.” Two years later, Coli pleaded guilty and formally agreed to cooperate with federal prosecutors.

Chicago Sun-Times

Elizabeth Holmes’ sentencing set for next month as prosecution witness fires back

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, expected to receive a multiyear prison term for felony fraud, has had her sentencing date set for Nov. 18.

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How Indonesia coaxes jailed hardliners away from extreme views

Potential parole for bombmaker Umar Patek has drawn attention to Indonesia’s deradicalisation programmes.

Al Jazeera

Anglers caught cheating in tournament indicted, face possible prison

Two fishermen caught red-handed with lead weights in the bellies of fish they caught in a tournament were indicted on felony charges.

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NT government to introduce laws raising the age of criminal responsibility and reforming adult mandatory sentencing

The Northern Territory government says reforms raising the age of criminal responsibility and curtailing mandatory sentencing are an indication "the revolving prison door" stops here.

ABC News

South Carolina judge upholds activist's 4-year prison term

A South Carolina judge has ruled that a pregnant Black activist serving four years in prison over her behavior during racial justice protests in 2020 will not receive a reduced sentence

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Darwin mass shooter Benjamin Hoffmann has been sentenced, three years after a crime that shocked the city

Benjamin Hoffmann killed four people in a shooting rampage across Darwin in June 2019. This is what happened.

ABC News

The Consequences That Hunter Biden Could Face for Violating Arbitrary Gun Laws Should Give His Father Pause

The president supports the law that could send his son to prison for lying about his personal habits while buying a firearm.

Reason

Iranian American Siamak Namazi returns to prison in Iran

Iranian American businessman Siamak Namazi was forced to return to Tehran's Evin prison on Wednesday after Iranian authorities had given him a furlough on Oct. 1 and let his elderly father leave Iran for medical treatment on Oct. 5, their lawyer said.

Reuters

Scots drug dealer caged after £50k stash uncovered during police raids

Michael Campbell was sentenced to 44 months in prison.

Daily Record

UK pensioner accused of wife’s murder in Cyprus seeks manslaughter charge

Lawyers negotiating for David Hunter, who admits smothering wife to death and faces life in prison

The Guardian - UK

Black deaths in UK prisons are among most violent and neglectful, damning report finds

Exclusive: Inquest argued for more focused investigation, oversight and action to end deaths of racialised people in prison

The Independent UK

Sophie Lancaster's tragic mum died from haemorrhage after rare surgery complication

Sylvia Lancaster, 69, died in April, just weeks after one of her daughter's killers was freed from prison

Manchester Evening News

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Salon

Republicans self-sabotaging on cannabis

Decriminalizing pot is popular even with Republican voters, but GOP leaders are sticking with '60s-style hysterics

Chronicle Live

Where is Ian Huntley now? Maxine Carr drama puts killer's crimes back in TV spotlight

Ian Huntley's murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman are back in the spotlight thanks to Channel 5 drama Maxine

WEKU

A former Los Angeles Angels employee gets 22 years in Tyler Skaggs' overdose death

Eric Kay was sentenced to 22 years in federal prison for providing Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs the drugs that led to his overdose death in 2019.

The Guardian - AU

‘Integral part of democracy’: climate activists mount court challenge to NSW anti-protest laws

Laws that allow for fines and prison terms for non-violent protesters undermine fundamental rights, Environmental Defenders Office says

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Chicago Sun-Times

Biden is pardoning thousands of marijuana users, but he still resists legalization

Biden’s mercy notably did not extend to people convicted of manufacturing or distributing marijuana under federal law, who still languish in prison or carry the lifelong burden of felony records.

Daily Record

Scots beast who raped young girl, 12, over four year period dies in jail

Sick William Tucker has died in prison three years after being found guilty of raping the girl.

Manchester Evening News

Vandals smash up staff cars at Forest Bank prison in Salford

Insiders say tensions among staff, rather than inmates, is behind the second attack in three months

Evening Standard

Rapper Alieu ‘PS Hitsquad’ Koroma sentenced to five years for county lines drug supply

A rapper who used a 14-year-old as a drugs runner for ‘county lines’ supply of crack cocaine and heroin has been ordered to serve more than five years in prison.

Evening Standard

James Bulger’s mum Denise Fergus urges government to intervene and keep son’s killer Jon Venables in prison

She warned that he ‘still poses a serious danger to other families’

The Independent UK

Revealed: Apology letter murderer sent Canadian girlfriend’s family after killing her on UK visit

Jack Sepple will spend at least 23 years and six months in prison for killing Ashley Wadsworth

The Independent UK

Myanmar court hands Japanese journalist 3 more years in jail

A court in military-ruled Myanmar has convicted a Japanese journalist of violating immigration law, adding three years to the seven-year prison sentence he was handed last week for filming an anti-government protest

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