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Barlinnie prisoner slashed multiple times in dining hall blade attack

Glasgow High Court heard today that Mark McSorley repeatedly struck Kyle Beard with a makeshift weapon as evening meals were being dished out at the Glasgow jail.

Glasgow Live

Ghislaine Maxwell will earn as little as 12p an hour cleaning toilets at new prison

The former girlfriend of billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, will reportedly earn as little as 12p an hour in her new Florida jail. Maxwell was convicted of horrific sex crimes

Daily Mirror

Police hunt wanted man who fled from prison

Gavin Phythian, 33, could be in Tameside, Oldham, or Rochdale

Manchester Evening News

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Lori Loughlin reflects on being ‘down and broken’ on star-studded TV show

Perhaps signaling Lori Loughlin’s acceptance back into the Hollywood fold, the disgraced “Full House” star joined Oprah Winfrey, Sharon Stone and Whoopi Goldberg and other celebrities on a Los Angeles-based telethon over the weekend, talking about her weekly commitment to delivering food to people in need since leaving federal prison.

Tribune News Service

Madras HC orders expeditious trial against convict Murugan for obscene behaviour

He had reportedly stood naked when jail guards, including a woman, visited his cell for a search operation

The Hindu

Royal Navy v Her Majesty's Prison Service rugby match erupts into mass brawl

It appeared as if the tackler swung his elbow at the attacker

Wales Online

How a ‘love jihad’ case was manufactured in India’s Uttar Pradesh

A story of a woman who was an alleged ‘complainant’ against her Muslim partner that led to his imprisonment for months.

Al Jazeera

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Griner's drawn-out drug trial in Russia resumes

American basketball star Brittney Griner is returning to a Russian courtroom for her drawn-out trial on drug charges that could bring her 10 years in prison if convicted

The Independent UK

Rapist punished by Irish prison chiefs after sending sick card to woman he abused as a child

Michael Moloney was given a P19 form by the Irish Prison Service

Irish Mirror

NT coroner's inquest into hanging death at Darwin Holtze prison facing significant delay, court told

The family of 31-year-old prisoner Bernard Hector, who died at Darwin's prison last year, are disappointed his inquest may not happen until next year.

ABC News

Will the Myanmar executions force Australia to act decisively at last?

The execution of four political prisoners in Myanmar is further confirmation of what was already well known. The regime of Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing will stop at nothing to maintain its grip on the country.

The Conversation

MPs concerned over number of women in prison

The Ministry of Justice predicts an increase in the female prison population by more than a third in the next three years.

The Independent UK

Former Darwin resident who defrauded former employers of nearly $90,000 sentenced to two years in prison

Kristy Gall will spend at least three months in prison after being sentenced in the Northern Territory Supreme Court today.

ABC News

Darwin mass shooter Benjamin Hoffmann's lawyer withdraws services in alleged 'hot water' prison assault case

Mass shooter Benjamin Hoffmann may be unrepresented in an upcoming court case over an alleged prison assault, after his lawyer withdrew due to ongoing funding issues.

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Australia 'appalled' by Myanmar executions, Penny Wong offers condolences to families still without answers

Members of the international community — including Australia and the organisation representing Myanmar's neighbours — call the killings "appalling" and "highly reprehensible".

The Independent UK

‘Alarming’ increase in self-harm in women’s prisons as more vulnerable people to be jailed, report says

Government vowed to reduce female prison population four years ago but it is now expected to jump by a third

The Guardian - UK

Women offenders still being jailed despite pledge to cut prisoner numbers, say MPs

Justice committee says little progress made on developing alternatives to custodial sentences as female prison population predicted to rise by a third

ABC News

Families of Banksia Hill detainees speak out following transfers to Casuarina Prison

Family members of teenage boys relocated to Western Australia's highest security prison fear the move will ensnare them in a cycle of violence, as the national children's commissioner says disadvantaged youth are being blamed for system failures.

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The Independent UK

Maxwell’s new digs: Fla. prison known for yoga, music, abuse

Ghislaine Maxwell is off to Florida to serve a 20-year prison sentence for helping financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse underage girls

Daily Mirror

Child rapist dies of Covid in prison after being jailed for sadistic sex attacks

Derrick Sheppard, who was originally sentenced to 12 years in jail in 2011 for a series of horrific historical molestations of young girls, passed away at at HMP Exeter weeks after contracting the virus

Chicago Sun-Times

Pedro Flores, star witness against El Chapo, tells judge feds gave his wife immunity against prosecution

The onetime Chicago cocaine kingpin’s wife Vivianna Lopez and his brother’s wife Valerie Gaytan are fighting money-laundering charges. Flores says immunity for them was part of the deal he and his twin brother Margarito Flores, who both grew up in Little Village, were given.

Tribune News Service

Myanmar executes activists in first use of death penalty in decades

Myanmar’s military regime has executed four individuals, including a deposed pro-democracy lawmaker and a prominent activist, in its first use of the death penalty in more than three decades, state media reported Monday.

AAP

Evidence concerns in WA prison inquest

An inquest examining the death of an Indigenous man at Perth's privately operated Acacia Prison will not hear from independent experts about his care.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Iran Parliament to Discuss Belgium Prisoner Swap Treaty

Iran's parliament is to debate a prisoner exchange deal with Belgium, state media said on Monday, after Brussels approved the deal that may lead to the release of an Iranian diplomat jailed for planning to bomb a rally of an exiled opposition group. The official Iranian news agency IRNA said…

Miami Herald

A released bank robber left his halfway house to rob a Miami bank that he hit before

MIAMI — A Miami bank robber returned to the scene of the crime after his release from federal prison, robbing one of the same banks that led to his conviction in 2011.

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