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Fraudster lands in jail after stealing identity to escape South Australian authorities

In a letter written to a friend from prison, a fraudster described his two-week road trip funded by stolen credit cards as "the best 20 days" of his life.

ABC News

Calls to end Assange 'slow-motion' murder

Julian Assange's brother and father are calling for help to end the Wikileaks founder's incarceration in Belmarsh prison in the United Kingdom.

AAP

Bail laws need to change to reduce harm to children, Victorian inquiry finds

Parental incarceration can interrupt childhood development and affects wellbeing, report finds

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County Durham woman threatened to burn down carer's home within hours of prison release

Laura Walker, 34, went to a full-time carer's home and made terrifying threats to burn her house down

Chronicle Live

Prisoner killed in Mountjoy was moved after previously being assaulted days before fatal attack

Gardai are now treating the investigation as a murder inquiry after O’Connor’s life support machine at the nearby Mater Hospital was switched off in the early hours of yesterday morning

Dublin Live

Mountjoy prisoner killed in assault had been attacked just two days earlier on different wing

Gardai are now treating the investigation as a murder inquiry after O’Connor’s life support machine at the nearby Mater Hospital was switched off in the early hours of yesterday morning.

Irish Mirror

Russia-Ukraine war: Kyiv calls Amnesty report that says Ukrainian forces are putting civilians at risk a ‘perversion’ – as it happened

Kyiv hits back after charity says Russia’s attacks ‘unjustifiable’ but Ukraine’s tactics are endangering civilians. This live blog is closed

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Dad may avoid prison over son's ATV death

Christopher Browne should be given significant community work to punish him for the death of his two-year-old son in an ATV crash, prosecutors say.

AAP

Gangster linked to Daniel crime clan 'behind sex attacks on inmates who owe debt'

prisoner claims drug baron uses sex attacks as punishment for falling into debt

Daily Record

US says Russia aims to fabricate evidence in prison deaths

U.S. officials believe Russia is working to fabricate evidence concerning last week’s deadly strike on a facility housing prisoners of war in a separatist region of eastern Ukraine

The Independent UK

NCA bomber Domenic Perre loses appeal against conviction for spitting on police officer

Domenic Perre — the man found guilty over a deadly parcel bomb attack on the National Crime Authority in Adelaide nearly three decades ago — loses a bid to overturn a guilty verdict for spitting at a police officer in prison.

ABC News

'Decolonising' classrooms could help keep First Nations kids in school and away from police

The recent decision to transport juvenile offenders into an adult maximum-security prison in Western Australia shows the youth justice system is in crisis. The findings of the Don Dale Royal Commission, and the landmark Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody were uncomfortably similar, even though being held almost three…

The Conversation

Animal sanctuary owner charged for refusing to return cows to beef farm

Tracy Murphy could face up to seven years in prison if convicted

The Independent UK

NY man who sent threats to LGBTQ groups gets 30 months

A former schoolteacher from suburban New York City has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for mailing dozens of violent threats to LGBTQ affiliated individuals, groups and businesses over several years

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The Independent UK

UN fact-finding mission will probe Ukraine prison killings

The United Nations chief says he is appointing a fact-finding mission in response to requests from Russia and Ukraine to investigate the killings at a prison in a separatist region of eastern Ukraine that the warring nations accuse each other of carrying out

Reuters

Russia sentences Griner to 9 years in prison, White House calls for her release

A Russian court sentenced U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner to nine years in prison on Thursday after finding her guilty of deliberately bringing cannabis-infused vape cartridges into Russia, a ruling that U.S. President Joe Biden called "unacceptable."

The Independent UK

Man charged with killing NY cop released from prison in May

The 21-year-old man accused of killing an upstate New York police officer and wounding his partner has been charged with aggravated murder

The National (Scotland)

If Scotland is denied indyref2 the UK 'is not a Union, it's a prison', commentator says

Jonathan Lis pointed out that the SNP had won successive mandates in 2016, 2017, 2019, and 2021, to hold an independence referendum.

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The Guardian - UK

Blast that killed Ukraine PoWs was Kremlin operation, Kyiv claims

Officials cite satellite data and phone intercepts and say Wagner Group mercenaries carried out atrocity

The National (Scotland)

Man sentenced to six years behind bars over Edinburgh train station killing

A MAN has been sentenced to six years in prison over the death of Donald Maguire in Edinburgh two years ago.

Irish Mirror

Mountjoy inmate who died in prison assault pictured as gardai probe murder

Robert O'Connor suffered a bleed to the brain after he was targeted by up to four men in a cell at the Dublin jail

Benzinga

Selling Candy-Flavored Cannabis Products To Minors Could Land Offenders In Prison For Decades Under GOP-Led Bill

The sale of packaged marijuana products that resemble popular food brands continues to pose a grave risk to the health and safety of children. The problem seems to persist even though every state that legalized recreational cannabis has set an age limit banning those under 21 from accessing cannabis shops.

The Independent UK

Missouri high school teacher sentenced to 30 years for sextortion scheme targeting children

Brandon McCullough, 31, was also ordered to spend the rest of his life on supervised release after serving his 30-year sentence in prison and was additionally asked to pay $204,199

Manchester Evening News

Student claims £1,600 accommodation is like a 'prison' with broken heating, cockroaches and bags of sick

Alice Sowerby lived in the flat for a year and claimed the conditions affected both her physical and mental health

The Independent UK

‘Merchant of death’: Who is Viktor Bout, the arms dealer who was swapped for Brittney Griner

The former Soviet military officer was arrested in Bangkok in 2008 and is now serving 25 years in US prison

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