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How many people in prisons died of COVID-19?

The death rate for incarcerated people in state and federal prisons from COVID-19 was 20% higher than for the average American.

USAFacts

Sherri Papini: New video reveals moment detectives told ‘super mom’ they had cracked kidnap hoax

The 40-year-old was sentenced to 18 months in prison for lying about faked 2016 abduction

The Independent UK

She faked her kidnapping to go back to her ex. Now she'll get 18 months in prison

Sherri Papini disappeared in 2016, triggering a three-week multi-state search. When she resurfaced, she told authorities an elaborate lie about being abducted and tortured by two Hispanic women.

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Saudi Arabia is imprisoning women while the rest of the world is not paying attention

Saudi Arabia recently sentenced Nourah bint Saeed al-Qahtani to 45 years in prison after she had expressed her views on social media. This comes just a couple of weeks after a Leeds University student, Salma al-Shehab, was sentenced to 34 years in prison for using Twitter to retweet views of…

The Conversation

Despite Govt concern, Māori are a growing majority of those sent to prison

Calls for changes to bail rules so Māori and those from other low-income communities aren't remanded straight to prison.

Newsroom.co.nz

New ‘Serial’ episode on Adnan Syed case drops; victim’s family, advocates respond to his release from prison

BALTIMORE — A day after a Baltimore City judge overturned Adnan Syed’s murder conviction, a new episode of the hit podcast “Serial” that first made his decades-old case famous details the decision to free him.

Tribune News Service

Senate Investigation Finds Justice Department Undercounted Prison and Jail Deaths Last Year by Nearly 1,000

The report says the inaccuracies "deprived Congress and the American public of information about who is dying in custody and why."

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‘We thieves and killers are now fighting Russia’s war’: how Moscow recruits from its prisons

Inmates describe visits by Yevgeny Prigozhin, reported head of the Wagner group, who is said to offer pardons for those who enlist

The Guardian - UK

Trump fumes after DA floats "prison"

“The allegations are very serious. If indicted and convicted, people are facing prison sentences,” Fani Willis said

Salon

With Brittney Griner still imprisoned, WNBA players aren’t going to Russia this offseason

Nearly a dozen WNBA players competed in Russia last winter and none of them are heading back this year.

Chicago Sun-Times

Vladimir Putin to impose martial law and mobilise all men of military age to fight

According to a copy of the bill expected to be signed off by Vladimir Putin, voluntary surrender would become a crime for Russian military personnel and punishable by 10 years in prison

Daily Mirror

Boonsong granted temporary release to attend mum's funeral

Former commerce minister Boonsong Teriyapirom was granted temporary release from prison to attend his mother's funeral, Wuttichai Jenwiriyakul, director of the Klong Prem Central Prison, confirmed on Tuesday.

Bangkok Post

Business and leaders joining people who have served sentences on a 100 mile walk

The walk is in support of the work of charity, Beating Time

Wales Online

Adnan Syed, star of Serial podcast, has been released from prison

Prosecutors filed a motion saying that a lengthy investigation conducted with the defence had uncovered new evidence that could undermine the 2000 conviction

Wales Online

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The Independent UK

Mexico seeks extradition of El Chapo’s godson in connection with journalist’s murder

Lopez-Serrano dodged a minimum 10-year sentence for crimes he pleaded guilty

Daily Record

Mum who lied about own kidnapping sentenced to 18 months in prison

Sherri Papini, 39, made false statements to the FBI claiming she was snatched by two Hispanic woman while out jogging.

ABC News

'World-class' new Darwin Youth Justice Centre's location next to Holtze prison sparks alarm from co-commissioner Mick Gooda

The NT government says a new facility set to replace Don Dale will take a different approach to youth justice. But one of the people behind a damning Royal Commission into the sector says its location could lead to more 'punitive' treatment.

ABC News

Man who killed woman in random attack may have been crying out for help, inquest hears

A request by an Adelaide prisoner with schizophrenia to move from a high-security jail to a mental health facility could have been a cry for help before he was released and killed an Adelaide mother, an inquest has heard.

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Dublin Live

Kinahan goon Johnny Morrissey caged at high-security Spanish jail where cartel bosses were imprisoned

The nick was once dubbed The Celeb Prison after a number of well-known people were sent there

The Independent UK

Kentucky school shooter seeks parole in high-stakes hearing

A Kentucky man who killed three students and wounded five more in a school shooting 25 years ago will go before the state parole board on Tuesday in a high stakes hearing that could see him released or denied the chance to ever leave prison

Tribune News Service

Victims testify as Kentucky school shooter tries to get parole after 25 years in prison

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Victims who survived a school shooting 25 years ago spoke to members of the Kentucky Parole Board on Monday as the board weighed the possibility of granting release to a man who killed three people and injured five others when he opened fire in a high school…

The Independent UK

Kentucky school shooting victims oppose 1997 attacker’s parole: ‘There are too many what ifs’

Michael Carneal, now 39, is up before the Kentucky Parole Board after opening fire at a high school in 1997. Sheila Flynn reports

Tribune News Service

Judge overturns Adnan Syed’s 1999 murder conviction, releases him from prison

BALTIMORE — Adnan Syed, a Baltimore man whose legal saga spawned hit podcast “Serial,” is a free and innocent man. For now.

WEKU

Adnan Syed, subject of 'Serial' podcast, is released after his conviction is vacated

Syed was 18 when he was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee. Lee was murdered in 1999 when she was also 18.

The Independent UK

Timeline of the murder of Hae Min Lee and legal battle of Adnan Syed

Syed’s sudden release marks just the latest twist in a case that has rumbled on for more than two decades

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