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4 Florida men charged with conspiracy to commit crimes dressed as police officers, DOJ says

ORLANDO, Fla. — Four Florida men face life in prison after authorities arrested them for committing crimes dressed as police officers.

Orlando Sentinel

County Durham man who tried to flee police on rooftops died after injuries from fall turned septic

Paul Noble had been summoned back to prison and was trying to get away when he fell from a first-floor roof on September 15, 2018

Chronicle Live

Greek man gets life sentence for killing British wife

A Greek man, who confessed to killing his young British wife in front of their 11-month-old child last year, was sentenced to life in prison on Monday in a case which has prompted widespread public outrage.

Reuters

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Young West Lothian prisoner attacked fellow inmate after 'feeling threatened'

Liam Hogg, 24, left James Frail bleeding heavily from wounds to his ear, head and neck after attacking him with an improvised weapon in HMP Addiewell.

Edinburgh Live

This forgotten women's prison helped cement Greenwich Village's queer identity

In his book The Women's House of Detention, Hugh Ryan writes about the New York City prison and the role it played in the gay rights movement of the '60s, including the 1969 Stonewall Uprising.

WEKU

Children in Gwent recruited by drug dealers to supply crack and heroin

Two men have been handed a combined 17 years in prison following a Gwent Police-led investigation

Wales Online

Jailed Hitler-obsessed Newcastle neo-Nazi to serve no extra time in prison for child abuse images

Luke Hunter, of High Callerton, was found with disturbing right wing material and indecent images of children when police raided his home

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Former France footballer handed five-year sentence for role in nightclub shooting

Two-time Ligue 1 winner Tony Vairelles - who represented the likes of Bordeaux, Lens, Rennes and Lyon during his playing days - has received a five-year prison sentence

Daily Mirror

You need to watch the most underrated prison thriller on Netflix before it leaves next week

Sometimes bad things happen to okay people.

Inverse

Georgia jails critical pro-opposition journalist Nika Gvaramia

Judge sentences anchor and owner of pro-opposition Mtavari TV to three-and-a-half years in prison.

Al Jazeera

Convicted killer turned tech whiz confronts his sordid past

His partners tout him as a successful case of rehabilitation and second chances: When he was 20 years old, Harel Hershtik planned and executed a murder

The Independent UK

Glasgow dad caught with cocaine worth £2.4million 'knew what he was doing'

Graham Curran is beginning a three year prison sentence after the Court of Criminal Appeal quashed the original community payback sentence previously handed down for his part in the drugs trafficking operation.

Glasgow Live

Locking up pregnant women damages mothers and children – yet the UK does it

Some countries have laws against this inhumane practice, which just worsens existing trauma. Why don’t we, asks Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

The Guardian - UK

Uyghur county in China has highest prison rate in the world

In oasis towns and villages by the desert in China’s far west Xinjiang region, over 10,000 Uyghurs have vanished – ripped from their families and sentenced to years, even decades in prison on vague, secretive charges

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Uyghur county in China has highest prison rate in the world

The Independent UK

Police phone call recordings show relationship between guard Vicky White and Alabama inmate Casey White

Fellow detainees told police that guard had affair with inmate

Daily Mirror

Emmerdale fans 'rumble 50th birthday twists' with prison escape and Dingle death

Emmerdale fans have 'sussed' some big moments they think will happen during the ITV soap's 50th anniversary later this year, including deaths and returns

The Guardian - AU

NSW government refuses to close legal loophole allowing prison staff to strip-search children

Exclusive: Ombudsman demands response from ministers after recommendation to prohibit fully naked body searches of children was ignored

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The Times of India

CCTV camera captures footage of toilet area, G N Saibaba threatens to launch hunger strike in Nagpur jail

NAGPUR: Former Delhi University (DU) professor G N Saibaba, serving a life sentence for Maoist links in Nagpur, has threatened to launch an indefinite fast inside his jail cell if a CCTV camera which allegedly captures footage of the toilet and bathing area is not removed, his family members said…

Manchester Evening News

Criminals locked up in Greater Manchester this week May 9

Jail sentences are handed out to some of the worst offenders each week. Here are some of the newest prisoners from the region

The Conversation

Blasphemy in Nigeria's legal systems: an explainer

A court in Kano, northern Nigeria, recently convicted an atheist for making social media posts it found to be blasphemous against Islam. After a lengthy trial, Mubarak Bala pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 24 years in prison. The Conversation Africa’s Wale Fatade asked Islamic law expert AbdulRazzaq Alaro to…

Irish Mirror

Evil serial killer Mark Nash refused transfer from high security Midlands prison to 'cushy' Arbour Hill

Nash will likely die in jail after his application to the European Court of Human Rights over his conviction for the Grangegorman murders was rejected in 2020

Salon

Black lives and Black death

Marc Lamont Hill on how George Floyd's martyrdom changed America, and why cops and prisons can't deliver justice

Daily Mirror

Inside the world’s most violent prison - where inmates are beheaded in horrid massacres

The Maracaibo National Prison, also known as Sabaneta Prison in Venezuela, has been closed for more than a decade but plans to convert it into a museum have brought with it gruesome tales

Asharq Al-Awsat

Palestinian Gunman Dies Days after Clash with Israeli Troops

A Palestinian gunman who is the brother of a prominent Palestinian militant died Sunday after being critically wounded in clashes with Israeli forces, according to the Israeli hospital where he was being treated. Daoud Zubeidi was wounded in clashes with the Israeli military in the West Bank city of Jenin…

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