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Ex global drugs kingpin Curtis Warren to face major test on release

Questions have been asked as to whether Interpol's former Target One is "addicted to being a gangster"

Liverpool Echo

NY Attorney For Russian Arms Dealer Viktor Bout Is Confident About Brittney Griner Prisoner Swap, Calls It A 'Fair Trade'

The lawyer for notorious Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout said Monday he was “confident” the U.S.

Benzinga

Inmate dies 'after going into cardiac arrest' at Styal women's prison

Prison officials have confirmed an investigation into the death, the seventh fatality at the Cheshire jail since 2018

Manchester Evening News

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Black widow killer who fed husband poisoned curry released after 19 years in prison

Dena Thompson, 61, was jailed for life for murder after hiding anti-depressants in second husband Julian Webb's curry at their home in Yapton, West Sussex, on his birthday in 1994

Daily Mirror

Fantasist conman spent decades adopting 21 different aliases to scam victims

Sebastian Astbury began cheating his latest victim just months after being released from prison for a previous con

Wales Online

Former President Trump Criticizes Potential Prisoner Swap for Brittney Griner

Trump criticized a potential prisoner exchange that would return WNBA star Brittney Griner and former Marine Paul Whelan to the United States.

Sports Illustrated

A Connecticut lawyer has gotten 522 years taken off prison sentences. He’s not done

HARTFORD, Conn. — There aren’t a lot of attorneys who are making it their mission to get inmates out of prison before they’ve served out their sentences.

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Biden's New Bureau of Prisons Director Won't be Able To Run Away From the Agency's Corruption

The federal prison system is plagued by corruption and civil rights abuses.

Reason

Female journalist told skirt too short when reporting on Alabama execution

One journalist reporting on the lethal injection was told her skirt was too short and another said she had a full-body inspection

The Guardian - US

Where is Hunter Moore now? The Most Hated Man on the Internet out of prison but banned from social media after Netflix documentary

Hunter Moore was jailed in 2015 for offences related to the IsAnyoneUp.com revenge porn website

Irish Mirror

Shotts prison guard 'bleeding heavily' as murderer turns violent in jail cell attack

Stuart Murdoch turned on Kevin Hall as he tried to remove a metal pole from his cell at the Lanarkshire prison where he is serving life for stabbing Anthony Laurie to death in Cumbernauld in 2015.

Glasgow Live

From Gentleman Jack’s hat to Olly Alexander’s cape: 10 objects that tell Britain’s queer history

With drag queens’ dresses, erotic drawings, even a prison door, Queer Britain’s new exhibition distills centuries of LGBTQ+ life. Here are the highlights

The Guardian - UK

US’s proposed swap for Griner and Whelan met with skepticism and fury

While some have praised the Biden administration for the deal, others are upset over the prospect of releasing Viktor Bout, nicknamed the ‘Merchant of Death’

The Guardian - US

Pensioner found dead after fears she claimed too much in benefits only owed £4.55

Margaret Tyszkow, from Worcestershire, feared she would go to prison for claiming too much in benefits but it later transpired she only needed to pay back £4.55

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Glasgow Live

Knife thug who cut man's throat released early from prison twice

Details of the horrific attack by serial offender Stephen Paterson were laid bare as the Scottish Government ditch a plan to free most prisoners just a third of the way through their jail sentences

Reason

Brickbat: To Protect and Serve

Former Prince George's County, Maryland, police officer Bryant Strong was sentenced to a year in prison followed by three years of probation for assaulting a handcuffed man, leaving the man paralyzed from the waist down. Police had stopped Demonte Ward-Blake for an expired tag. Ward-Blake was "verbally agitated" but cooperative…

Irish Mirror

Irish prison cell attack victim told jail bosses he felt safe hours before horror assault

Robert O’Connor, 34, had stopped breathing and was revived after the assault in his cell in Dublin’s Mountjoy Prison on Friday evening.

Dublin Live

Mountjoy prisoner 'fighting for life' after horror attack

Robert O’Connor, 34, had stopped breathing and was revived after the assault in his cell in Dublin’s Mountjoy Prison

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AAP

Indigenous man found dead in WA prison

An Indigenous man has died after being found unconscious in his cell at Perth's maximum-security prison, with police to provide a report to the coroner.

Daily Record

Scots prison bosses criticised by campaigners after admitting halfway house could host trans prisoners

Campaigners claimed housing “prisoners of the male sex” at the Bella Centre in Dundee would be harmful to females living there.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Briton Leaves Iraq after Antiquities Conviction Quashed

A retired British geologist jailed in Iraq for antiquities smuggling has been freed and has left the country, his family said Sunday. Jim Fitton, 66, was sentenced in June to 15 years in an Iraqi prison. A Baghdad appeals court overturned the conviction and last week ordered his release. Fitton…

Wales Online

War and Justice: The true story of the first British soldier convicted of murder and what happened to him

War and Justice: The Case of Marine A on Channel 4 tells the story of Alexander Blackman

Reuters

Red Cross renews appeal to visit site of Ukrainian POW attack

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has not yet received permission to visit the site of Friday's attack that killed dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war, it said on Sunday, condemning the incident at the Olenivka facility.

Edinburgh Live

Death of Edinburgh prison inmate Allan Marshall to be re-examined by prosecutors

Prosecutors are now re-examining the fatality after the 30-year-old died in custody at Saughton Prison in 2015, following an incident where he was forcibly restrained.

The Times of India

Former Jehanabad MP Arun Kumar gets 3-year jail term for remarks against Bihar CM Nitish Kumar

PATNA: A Jehanabad based special court for the MP/MLA cases has sentenced former Lok Sabha member Arun Kumar to three years in prison for his controversial remarks against Bihar CM Nitish Kumar in June 2015.

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