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R. Kelly’s prison sentence comes after decades of outcries by victims who were ignored too long

R. Kelly’s legal saga has been an unnecessarily drawn out debacle fueled by denial, greed and the willingness to ignore the cries of mostly Black girls and women.

Chicago Sun-Times

Alabama bond sale for mega prisons falls $200 million short

Alabama officials said they are moving forward with plans to build two supersize prisons despite a bond sale falling more than $200 million short of expectations

The Independent UK

Californians won't weigh 'involuntary servitude' amendment

California will not consider amending its state constitution to eliminate an exemption that allows indentured servitude to punish crime

The Independent UK

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Jailed gangster denied free run, goons attack prison official's home in west Delhi

NEW DELHI: Three alleged members of the Tillu Tajpuria gang fired at the house of an assistant jail superintendent in west Delhi in an apparent bid to terrorise him into allowing a senior gang member more facilities in jail.

The Times of India

Anti-slavery measure sits in California Senate, disappointing prison reform advocates

A measure that would change the California constitution to prohibit involuntary servitude in criminal punishment did not pass the Senate in time to make a deadline for the November ballot, disappointing prison reform advocates who called it critical in addressing the state’s history of enslavement.

Tribune News Service

Why did R Kelly get a longer sentence than Ghislaine Maxwell? A legal expert explains

A US trial heard that Kelly was a ‘prolific serial predator’ who preyed ‘on the young and vulnerable’

The Independent UK

A look inside the ‘Disneyland’ prison Ghislaine Maxwell hopes to spend her 20-year sentence in

Lauryn Hill, ‘Queen of the Mean’ Leona Helmsley and Orange is the New Black author Piper Kerman have all done time at FCI Danbury

The Independent UK

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Bill Cosby ‘celebrates’ anniversary of being released from prison with interview

One year to the day he was released on an overturned sexual assault conviction and less than a month after losing a civil trial on another sexual assault, Bill Cosby spoke for the first time about his stay in prison.

Los Angeles Times

Voting rights advocates say it’s time to give convicted inmates the chance to vote

LaShawn Ford, a Chicago Democrat, is one of those behind the push.

Chicago Sun-Times

Brittney Griner's trial in Russia is about to begin. Here's what we know so far about the US basketball star's case

After months in jail, US basketball star Brittney Griner's Russian trial begins today, but it's a prisoner swap that could be needed to win her freedom.

ABC News

Teenage killer of Logan Mwangi named as his stepbrother Craig Mulligan

The 14-year-old has been sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of murdering his stepbrother

Manchester Evening News

Burglar snuck into Merchant Taylors' School on parents' evening

18 homes and businesses were broken into during crime spree after his release from prison

Liverpool Echo

Novak Djokovic reveals Boris Becker contact and is 'heartbroken' by legend's jail term

Novak Djokovic's former coach Boris Becker was sentenced to 30 months in prison in April, after being found guilty of four separate charges under the Insolvency Act

Daily Mirror

‘Jihadi Paul’ Aine Davis to be deported back to UK on release from Turkish prison

Turkish sources said they didn’t want their country to become a “dumping ground” for Western extremists

Evening Standard

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The Conversation

How your brainwaves could be used in criminal trials

American Kevin Strickland was exonerated after spending 42 years in prison for being wrongfully convicted of a triple murder in November 2021. His 1978 conviction was based on mistaken identification of an eyewitness. The eyewitness later said that police pressured her into identifying Strickland, and attempted to have her testimony…

Daily Mirror

Carl Woods desperate to have baby with Katie Price after she swerves prison

EXCLUSIVE: Carl Woods hopes to become a father 'in the near future' following a 'challenging' two years for him and Katie Price

Daily Mirror

'Extreme hoarder' who left skeletal 4-stone sister to die in abject squalor jailed

Julie Burdett, 61, was found dead after paramedics were called to the home in Leicester in January 2021 by her father 91-year-old Cecil Burdett

The Hindu

Oocytes sale case: DMS team gets nod to question the four accused

Judge asks team to conduct probe in the presence of Superintendent of Prisons

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The Hindu

Former prison Cascades Female Factory in Australia is today a grim reminder of the region’s convict ancestry

The World Heritage site reopened this March with a $5 million state-of-the-art history and interpretation centre

The Guardian - UK

Dining across the divide: ‘He was not a Nigel Farage-type Brexit person, so that was nice’

She’s a Labour supporter; he hasn’t voted in years. Can a carer and a prison caseworker bond over Jeremy Corbyn, despite disagreeing about the EU?

Asharq Al-Awsat

Lawyer for Convicted Paris Attacker Questions Harsh Sentence

The lawyer for the only surviving attacker from the November 2015 terrorist massacre in Paris criticized her client's murder conviction and life prison sentence without the possibility of parole, saying Thursday the verdict "raises serious questions." Salah Abdeslam, the chief suspect in the ISIS attacks on the Bataclan theater, Paris…

The Independent UK

Lawyer for convicted Paris attacker questions harsh sentence

The lawyer for the only surviving attacker from the November 2015 terrorist massacre in Paris has criticized her client’s murder conviction and life prison sentence without the possibility of parole

Wales Online

The overcrowded Welsh prison failing to look after the healthcare needs of inmates

HMP Swansea has 100 more men than its baseline capacity

Dublin Live

Kinahan associate facing prison over scrambler bike dangerous driving charge

Lee Gibson was arrested following a series of incidents involving a scrambler bike in south Dublin on Tuesday evening

The Independent UK

Playwright Ambreen Razia: Why do we never hear stories about working-class South Asian women?

We’re missing out on a whole world of stories from roaring, non-subservient South Asian women, writes ‘Favour’ playwright Ambreen Razia

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