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Crucial reforms to help thousands trapped in indeterminate jail terms fail after Labour peers...
The Independent via Yahoo News· 8 hours agoCrucial reforms to help thousands of prisoners trapped under abolished indefinite jail terms have...
Three prisoners died of thirst. All had water fountains in their cells. How could this happen?
WFAA Dallas-Fort Worth· 3 hours agoInside her Tarrant County Jail cell, Georgia Baldwin ranted she was a “worldwide wanted hostage.”...
Families beg for end to IPP scandal as Lords vote on indeterminate sentence reforms
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThe House of Lords is set to vote on a series of measures to help prisoners languishing in jail...
Jailed Guatemalan journalist to AP: 'I can defend myself, because I am innocent”
Associated Press· 6 hours agoThe journalist’s money laundering conviction was tossed out, and last week a judge finally ordered...
Scottish prisoners to be released early to ease overcrowding
BBC via Yahoo News· 6 days agoprisoners and SPS (Scottish Prison Service) staff, as well as to the security and the good order of...
UK government releases prisoners early to ease overcrowding in jails
Reuters· 7 days agoThe prison population in England and Wales has doubled in the last 30 years as a result of longer criminal sentences and a tougher approach to violent and drug-related crime. A spokesperson ...
Baltimore jail inmates seek release, citing 'horrific' sanitary conditions - Maryland Daily Record
The Daily Record· 1 day agoThe petitions allege constitutional violations caused by the jail’s conditions, namely the 8th...
Police told to make fewer arrests because prisons are getting full
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 4 hours agoIt means that suspects are having to be held in police cells until prison places become available....
Ebrahim Raisi, ‘the Butcher of Tehran’, hardline prosecutor who became Iran’s president – obituary
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 2 days agoEbrahim Raisi, the hardline Iranian president, who has been killed in a helicopter crash aged 63,...
Russia Says U.S. Ignores Its Proposals for Prisoner Swap
The Wall Street Journal· 4 days agoRussia accused the U.S. of ignoring its proposals for a prisoner swap, in the latest public...