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Inside world's biggest death row where most notorious criminals are executed

Serial killers, rapists and infamous criminals have been housed at San Quentin prison, including Charles Manson, but now the correctional facility is set to be closed down

Daily Mirror

Officials of the 27th batch graduate from prison academy in Vellore

The 35-member group underwent nine months of training

The Hindu

Prisoner ESCAPES and rings paper to say 'jail's driving me insane' after 17 years inside

Greggor Grey, 42, from Birmingham, escaped from the prison he was being held in and rang up his local paper to complain about his time behind bars

Daily Mirror

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Search for Texas inmate expands as land, air operations end

Authorities say the search by ground and air in the Texas county where a convicted murderer escaped from a prison transport bus and stabbed the driver last week has concluded as the hunt for him expands

The Independent UK

Man gets 24 years in prison for fire that killed endangered California Condors

Multiple vultures killed in in coastal blaze three times the size of Washington, DC

The Independent UK

Female offenders suffering with addiction and trauma to be treated at new Swansea residential centre

It will be an alternative to prison for many and will aim to tackle the factors behind their offending

Wales Online

Ecuador tribunal orders former vice president back to prison

An Ecuadorean tribunal on Friday ordered former vice-president Jorge Glas, who served four-and-a-half years in prison on a bribery conviction, to immediately return to jail, annulling a decision that freed him last month.

Reuters

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It’s a wonder I’m alive: Azam Khan after walking out of prison

RAMPUR/LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan stepped out of the Sitapur jail on Friday after spending over 26 months in judicial custody, a day after the Supreme Court granted him interim bail in a cheating case. Later, after reaching home in Rampur, as thousands of supporters gathered outside his house…

The Times of India

Man sentenced to 24 years for setting Big Sur wildfire that killed 12 endangered condors

LOS ANGELES — A man who was convicted of setting a wildfire in Big Sur that burned 125,000 acres, seriously injured a firefighter and killed 12 endangered California condors was sentenced this week to 24 years in state prison.

Los Angeles Times

Fyre Festival creator has put together team to ‘come up with ideas’ for new entertainment ventures after early prison release

NEW YORK — Billy McFarland is all fyred up.

Tribune News Service

Jailed tennis star Boris Becker annoyed by 'fictitious' coverage: lawyer

Top-selling daily Bild claim there have been several emergency calls from Becker's cell in London's Wandsworth prison as he complained about suffering from claustrophobia and the food served

The Hindu

Justice Veerappa pays surprise visit to Dharwad Central Prison

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The Hindu

Ukrainian fighter's wife hopes prisoner swap pans out with Russia

As Ukrainian fighters left the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol this week and ended their dramatic last stand against Russia's siege, Mariia Zimareva tried in vain to spot her husband amid the flood of news pictures being published.

Reuters

Former Marine Trevor Reed on Russian imprisonment: "I wouldn't let myself hope"

"The psychiatric treatment facility, I was in there with seven other prisoners in a cell," Reed said.

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The Independent UK

Bill pushes feds to notify families of sick, dying inmates

New legislation in the Senate requires the Justice Department to establish guidelines for the federal Bureau of Prisons and state correctional systems to notify the families of inmates if their loved one has a serious illness, a life-threatening injury or if they die behind bars

Daily Mirror

Inside violent prison where husband killer of Brit mum Caroline Crouch is held

Helicopter pilot Babis Anagnostopoulos, 34, was jailed for life on Monday for murdering his British wife Caroline Crouch, 20, for hanging her rescue puppy Roxy from the bannisters of their Athens maisonette

The Guardian - US

Facing Life: the project showing the cracks in California’s incarceration system

A documentary follows the paths of eight people who served decades of their life sentences behind bars, only to be released with no resources

Daily Mirror

Russian soldier who killed innocent grandad smirks when told of possible prisoner swap

Russian Sergeant Vadim Shishimarin, 21, shot Ukrainian civilian Oleksandr Shelypov, 62, dead with an AK-47 as he pushed his bicycle home in Chupakhivk, just days into the invasion in February

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SP leader Azam Khan released from prison

Supreme Court on Thursday used its powers under Article 142 to grant Azam Khan interim bail

The Independent UK

Children carrying weapons at most violent prison in England, inspectors warn

A report says there were 105 assaults among children and 82 on staff in just six months.

The Independent UK

Ex-deputy gets 18 years after detainees drown in locked van

A deputy in South Carolina whose police van was swept away by floodwaters in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence, drowning two women seeking mental health treatment trapped in a cage in the back has been sentenced to 18 years in prison

ABC News

Veronica Nelson's 'appalling' death in prison cell was avoidable, doctors tell inquest

A panel of medical experts tell a coronial inquest that clear warning signs should have prompted prison health workers to send Veronica Nelson to hospital the day before the Aboriginal woman's death, "without dignity", alone in her cell.

The Independent UK

Parents convicted in college scam remain free during appeal

Two men convicted of buying their kids’ way into school as part of the college admissions bribery scheme can stay out of prison while they appeal their cases

The Independent UK

Arizona prisoner won’t be executed in gas chamber

An Arizona prisoner is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on June 8 for killing an 8-year-old girl

The Independent UK

Illinois man convicted of giving son rifle he used to kill 4

An Illinois man faces up to three years in prison after being convicted of illegally giving his son an assault-style rifle he later used to shoot and kill four people in 2018 at a Waffle House in Tennessee

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