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From Bridge of Spies to Anna Chapman and Viktor Bout: A history of US-Russian prisoner swaps

The former Cold War adversaries have pulled off yet another notable exchange

The Independent UK

Viktor Bout: Lawyer for convicted Russian arms dealer ‘confident’ of US prisoner swap with Brittney Griner

Notorious ‘Merchant of Death’ serving 25 years in US prison

The Independent UK

Woman who ripped own hair out for 18 years after dad's prison death launches haircare brand

Rosie Myers recovered from hair-pulling condition trichotillomania and went on to create ethical brand ‘nope’

Wales Online

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French hacker wanted by the FBI arrested in Morocco, could face 116 years in prison

A 21-year-old French student, Sébastien Raoult, has been jailed for two months in Morocco at the request of US authorities on suspicion of being a member of a group of cybercriminals who have targeted US companies.

Radio France Internationale

A mother watches helplessly as her teenage boy deteriorates in a Texas youth prison

The state of Texas has essentially controlled her son’s life since he was 11. The Texas Juvenile Justice Department was supposed to keep him safe and help him get better. It has failed at every turn.

The Texas Tribune

Journo blocked from execution for skirt

Editor rips “sexist and an egregious breach of professional conduct”

Salon

Lanarkshire family welcome new probe into custody death of Allan Marshall

Prison officers are to be re-interviewed over the tragic 2015 incident.

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Victim of brutal Mountjoy Prison attack dies as Garda probe continues

The prisoner has been named as Robert O’Connor (34) from Darndale in North Co Dublin.

Irish Mirror

Anita Chabria: Solitary confinement is shrouded in secrecy and open to abuse. Why does California allow it?

Why have any soft feelings for those locked in solitary confinement in our prisons, jails and immigrant detention centers? They must be the worst of the worst, right? The unrepentant serial killers, the gang leaders carrying on business as usual behind bars, the criminals with nothing to lose and no…

Los Angeles Times

Ex-partner of Coatbridge brute who defied court order welcomes prison sentence

Robert Logan, 41, was this week jailed for two years after engaging in a course of conduct that caused the woman fear and alarm.

Daily Record

Prisoner dies after vicious assault in Dublin prison

Robert O'Connor was on put on life support after he sustained serious head injuries

Dublin Live

Transfer of Banksia Hill detainees to Casuarina Prison a sign of a 'broken' system, retired judge says

The longest-serving president of Western Australia's children's court has slammed the state's youth justice system as "broken" and "a basket case", following the recent transfer of teenage boys from Banksia Hill Detention Centre to an adult prison.

ABC News

Gardai probing Kinahan link to attack on Mountjoy prisoner as victim on life support

Robert O’Connor, 34, was rushed to ICU following the assault on Friday evening

Dublin Live

Trump urges judge to throw out Cohen lawsuit, citing ‘absolute immunity’

Donald Trump urged a judge to toss out a civil suit filed by his longtime lawyer Michael Cohen, who claims the former president tried to silence him before the 2020 election by extending his stint in prison for lying to Congress.

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Salon

"Trump deserves life in prison"

"Trump deserves life in prison if my father is in prison for this long"

The Conversation

School playgrounds are getting squeezed: here are 8 ways to keep students active in small spaces

As enrolments climb and urban spaces become more crowded, some Australian schools have been left with less play space per student than a prison cell.

The Independent UK

Ahmaud Arbery pursuer seeks leniency in hate crimes sentence

The man who initiated the neighborhood chase that resulted in the fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery is asking a federal judge to show leniency when he's sentenced for a federal hate crime conviction

Al Jazeera

Brittney Griner appears before Russian court as trial nears end

Defence lawyer says Griner hopes a prisoner swap would enable her to go home.

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Lout jailed after assaulting three officers just hours after being in court for similar offences

Patricia Hewitt kicked and hit the victims on the same day she was given a community order for attacking a constable and just months after serving a prison sentence for assaulting another

The Independent UK

Garland swears in new US prisons chief in push for reform

Attorney General Merrick Garland has sworn in the new director of the federal Bureau of Prisons, as the Biden administration looks to reform the beleaguered agency

The Independent UK

New York prisons lift ban on book about Attica uprising

New York state prison authorities have lifted a ban on a book about the 1971 Attica uprising following a First Amendment lawsuit

Reason

Federal Government Under Fire Over Conditions at Atlanta Federal Prison

Senators allege Bureau of Prisons officials turned a blind eye to rapidly deteriorating conditions at the U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta.

Zenger

Student Claims Her $2,000-A-Month Accommodation Was Like A Prison – With Cockroaches All Over

“It's a lot of money. I have no idea how they are getting away with this. The whole block stinks and there is rubbish everywhere.”

Reuters

Israel's Herzog calls for investigation of alleged sex abuse of prison guards

Israeli President Isaac Herzog called on Tuesday for an investigation into allegations of sexual abuse of female guards by prisoners at a maximum security prison with the encouragement of their superiors.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russia Brands Ukrainian Steel Plant Defenders Terrorists

Russia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday declared Ukraine’s Azov Regiment a terrorist organization, a designation that could lead to terror charges against some of the captured fighters who made their last stand inside Mariupol's shattered steel plant. Russia and its rebel allies are holding an estimated 1,000 Azov fighters prisoner, many…

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