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'No Way Out': Grim Conditions In El Salvador's Mega-prison For Gangs

Confined to their cells for all but 30 minutes a day, denied visits, forced to sleep on stainless steel cots without mattresses: this is life in Latin America's biggest prison.

International Business Times

Suffragette’s great-granddaughter attacks protest sentences ahead of appeal bids

More than a dozen climate protesters are due to seek to challenge the length of their sentences at a hearing on Wednesday.

The Independent UK

Crypto thief dubbed the ‘Crocodile of Wall Street’ says she’s just misunderstood as she starts prison sentence

‘This was a media spectacle — but they were wrong about me,’ Heather Morgan said

The Independent UK

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Sara Sharif's father moved to infamous 'Monster Mansion' prison alongside other notorious killers

Urfan Sharif has reportedly been transferred to HMP Frankland joining the likes of Wayne Couzens and Levi Bellfield

Evening Standard

Italian PM Giorgia Meloni investigated for repatriating Libyan warlord

Osama Elmasry Njeem is suspected of crimes against humanity including murder, torture, rape and sexual violence as a prison overseer in Tripoli.

The Independent UK

Just Stop Oil appeals: Supporters protest outside High Court as prison sentences challenged

Just Stop Oil founder Roger Hallam, who is challenging his five-year prison sentence, among 16 activists appealing ‘corrupt’ sentences

Evening Standard

Susan Smith Denied Parole After 30 Years In Prison

Susan Smith, who drowned her sons in 1994, denied parole after 30 years in prison.

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California Woman Helped Dozens of Secretly Pregnant Chinese Women Enter US to Give Birth

The woman behind USA Happy Baby, a "birth tourism" operation, was sentenced to years in prison for helping more than 100 Chinese women obtain birthright citizenship for their expectant children.

Latin Times

Transgender Inmate Sues Trump Admin Over Medical Treatment Ban

Transgender inmate Maria Moe sues Trump admin over halting medical treatments for federal prisoners, sparking legal challenges.

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Former Sen. Bob Menendez faces sentencing in corruption case - Roll Call

Prosecutors recommended that the New Jersey Democrat receive at least 15 years in prison after being found guilty last summer on 16 counts.

Roll Call

California Woman Sentenced For Birth Tourism Scheme

California woman sentenced to prison for 'birth tourism' scheme aiding Chinese women seeking American citizenship for their babies.

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Life on South Carolina death row: months of ‘barbaric’ isolation before execution

Marion Bowman Jr has been caged in a tiny ‘execution watch’ cell since September, waiting to be killed: ‘I won’t let the prison turn me into an animal’

The Guardian - US

Heavily-tattooed former actor guilty of assaulting ex-girlfriend day after early prison release

Jason Hoganson attacked Rachel Usher outside her flat as she waited for the lifts

The Independent UK

California Woman Sentenced To Prison In Birth Tourism Scheme

Phoebe Dong sentenced to prison for involvement in birth tourism scheme, raising questions about US immigration laws.

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'Who Paid For This?': Fury As Trans Prisoner Is Allowed Out Of Jail For Surgery To 'Look More Feminine'

Life inmate Alan Baker, now known as Alex Stewart, has undergone a tracheal shave, prompting criticism over the use of taxpayer funds for the procedure.

The Guardian - UK

‘I watched every video to see my father’s face’: the woman who became the voice of Syria’s missing on why she isn’t giving up hope

Assad’s notorious prisons may have been opened, but Wafa Mustafa and thousands of others feel abandoned in their struggle to find loved ones

The Independent UK

Violent Jan 6 rioter pardoned by Donald Trump being sought on charges of child sex solicitation

Andrew Taake, 36, was released from federal prison despite a formal request by Texas prosecutors to keep him in custody to stand trial on

The Independent UK

Trans inmate sues Trump over executive order forcing her into men’s prison and denying appropriate health care

Incarcerated trans woman takes aim at president’s order rolling back protections for LGBT+ Americans

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The Guardian - US

January 6 rioter pardoned by Trump is killed by police in traffic stop

Indiana state police say Matthew Huttle, who was given six months in prison, was shot after allegedly resisting arrest

The Independent UK

Woman gets more than 3-year prison term for helping pregnant Chinese women get to US

A California woman has been sentenced to more than 3 years in prison for running a business that helped pregnant Chinese women travel to the United States to deliver babies who automatically became American citizens

Latin Times

Mom Who Starved Teen Daughter to Death Over 'Hatred' of Child's Father Slapped with Maximum Prison Sentence

A French woman was sentenced to jail time after causing the death of her teenage daughter, who allegedly suffered from abuse at the hands of her mother for years due to the woman's hatred for her father.

The Independent UK

Man convicted of holding down boy while he was raped at youth center is jailed

Bradley Asbury, 70, was found guilty on two counts of being an accomplice to aggravated sexual assault

The Guardian - US

Kiss of the Spider Woman review – Jennifer Lopez dazzles in unsteady musical

The star gives her all in Bill Condon’s uneven adaptation of the Broadway revision of a prison-set fantasy

The Guardian - UK

One of Europe’s most-wanted drug traffickers living in Sierra Leone, say Dutch prosecutors

Jos Leijdekkers, reportedly the son-in-law of African country’s president, was sentenced to 24 years in prison

The Independent UK

Pardoned January 6 rioter receives hero’s welcome at church where he tells congregation: ‘Let my people go’

‘Certainly, nine months ago when he was going into prison, we all wept with this family as they wept. But today, we rejoice with them as they rejoice’, said a California pastor

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