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Mobile phone and drug seizures in Irish prisons increased by 19% in 2021

New figures published by the Irish Prison Service show a total of 1,369 mobile phones were found in the country’s 12 prisons last year – up 19% on 2020 levels

Irish Mirror

Evil, jealousy and romance: What really happened when Myra Hindley met Rose West behind bars

The gruesome pair are alleged to have briefly been lovers while locked up together in HMP Durham

Manchester Evening News

Roe’s end could mean more pregnant women behind bars. Are Florida’s prisons prepared?

ORLANDO, Fla. — Prison reform activists worry the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that established a federal right to abortion, could lead to more pregnant people behind bars — a scenario some lawmakers in Florida have been trying to curb for years.

Orlando Sentinel

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A year after protests, Cuba struggles to emerge from crisis

A year after the largest protests in decades shook Cuba’s single-party government, hundreds of people who participated are in prison and the economic and political factors that caused the demonstrations largely remain

The Independent UK

Dire US labor shortage provides opportunity for ex-prisoners

The United States' ongoing labor shortage is bad for employers but presents an opportunity for workers who often could not find jobs in rosier economic times: ex-prisoners

The Independent UK

Input is everything as Polmont Youth Theatre emerges from pandemic

THREE years ago, before Covid-19 was a malignant thing, I visited HMYOI (Her Majesty’s Young Offenders Institution) Polmont for this newspaper. My…

The National (Scotland)

Prisoners denied access to forensic evidence in bid to prove their innocence

Campaigners call for reforms to allow those who claim to be wrongly convicted – such as Kevin Nunn, jailed for murdering his ex-girlfriend – to obtain information to appeal

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Dublin mum tells of how she feared for her life during horrific assault by ex-boyfriend

Daniel Prenderville, 34, was this week jailed for six more months for the savage attack on Hayley Flood in which he battered her with the metal tube from a vacuum cleaner

Dublin Live

FIR against eight Nashik jail officials

NASHIK: The Nashik Road police have lodged an FIR against eight officials and employees of the Nashik Road Central Prison for offences punishable under attempt to murder and causing grievous hurt.

The Times of India

Former US fugitive Patton Eidson makes final bid to return to Australian soil

Patton Eidson evaded authorities for decades, but the biggest obstacle to his homecoming is not his once-secret criminal past.

ABC News

Feds moved cartel member to Colorado’s Supermax in 'torturous' attempt to make him talk about 'El Chapo,' lawsuit alleges

DENVER — A man described in court documents as being in “middle management” of a drug cartel this week sued the U.S. Justice Department, claiming his imprisonment in Colorado’s Supermax prison is a sham, a “torturous” attempt to make him talk about drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman and a…

The Denver Post

Thailand's biggest romance scam snagged a chief financial officer and convinced her to steal millions

When Chamanun received a LinkedIn message from an unknown man claiming to be an American doctor, it marked the beginning of a tangled web of lies that would ultimately lead to Chamanun's arrest for stealing $250 million from her employer, and 20 years in prison.

ABC News

Curtis Warren 'lined up for big Hollywood film deal' after prison release

Warren is set to be released from prison later this year

Liverpool Echo

Netflix hit Stranger Things slammed for using Nazi prison and brutal asylum in new series

Netflix has used sites of past atrocities as locations or inspiration for its nostalgic hit show Stranger Things — including a plan to let fans book a themed cell in a former holocaust prison on Airbnb.

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29 alleged gang members plead guilty in $1 million fraud scheme

LOS ANGELES — More than two dozen people associated with criminal street gangs face a combined 86 years in prison after pleading guilty in a $1 million fraud scheme, California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Friday.

Tribune News Service

In a post-Roe world, more miscarriage and stillbirth prosecutions await women

In Texas, 26-year-old Lizelle Herrera was arrested and charged with murder for self-induced abortion. In California, 29-year-old Adora Perez served four years in prison after giving birth to a stillborn son. And in Mississippi, Latice Fisher was jailed after losing her baby at 36 weeks after police found she’d searched…

Manchester Evening News

Inside Cheshire town's top-rated restaurant where staff are serving prisoners

The Clink, on the grounds of HMP Styal, is one of four UK restaurants offering hospitality training to serving prisoners

The Hindu

Prisoner escapes from Kottayam district jail

Fifth accused in the murder case of a 19-year-old

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Edinburgh Live

West Lothian prison officers suspended over allegations of misconduct inside jail

The three members of staff are said to have been told to leave HMP Addiewell three months ago following numerous investigations at the West Lothian jail.

Daily Mirror

Katie Price's holiday highlights over the years - from bare boobs in waterfalls to bum grabbing

Model Katie Price recently jetted off to Thailand with her beau Carl Woods, shortly after she managed to escape a prison sentence. The destination appears to be the star's favourite...

Daily Record

Three prison officers suspended from privately run jail in West Lothian

Addiewell chiefs are refusing to say why they have suspended the guards

Tribune News Service

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Florida wants to severely restrict prisoners’ visitation hours

The Independent UK

Biden speaks to sister of US executive detained in Russia

President Joe Biden has spoken by phone with the sister of Paul Whelan, an American who has been imprisoned in Russia for more than three years

The Independent UK

Man sentenced on lesser charges in NBA player's slaying

A Tennessee man serving life in prison after his first-degree murder conviction in the slaying of former NBA player Lorenzen Wright has been sentenced on lesser charges of conspiracy and attempted murder in the long-running case

Chicago Sun-Times

3 months in prison for Pennsylvania businessman caught up in Dorothy Brown probe

Donald Donagher Jr. pleaded guilty in October to one count alleging he made payments designed to reward Brown when she was Cook County Circuit Court clerk.

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