10 h. ago Four men are arrested in France over plot to kill Putin critic who fled Russia after exposing prison abuses

Police in France have detained four people suspected of plotting to kill a high-profile Russian critic of Vladimir Putin.

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40 h. ago Mum blasts early prison release of paedophile abuser over fears more kids will be targeted

John Kerr was released was sentenced to 42 months in jail last year.

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4 d. ago Ian Watkins was 'dead man walking' in prison and 'abused every day' before murder

Lostprophets paedophile Ian Watkins was a "dead man walking" in HMP Wakefield, where he was murdered, a former prisoner has said, as two men have been charged with his murder

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5 d. ago The Guardian view on the online scam industry: authorities must not forget that perpetrators are often victims too | Editorial

A lucrative sector is spreading fast as criminal enterprises force abused and trafficked workers to cheat othersA Chinese court last month sentenced 11 people to death over their roles in a illegal scam empire along the border with Myanmar. But it won’t end a noxious multibillion-dollar industry that devastates the lives of two sets of victims. The first are those cheated out of money, often by people posing as potential romantic or business partners in what are known as “pig‑butchering” schemes. The second are those who are forced to cheat them, working in conditions amounting to modern slavery.The recent study, Scam: Inside Southeast Asia’s Cybercrime Compounds, by Ivan Franceschini, Ling Li and Mark Bo, paints a terrifying picture of the sector. Workers are trafficked into heavily guarded, prison-like compounds, where they are routinely abused and tortured for failing to meet targets, or extorted for ransoms. Others take the jobs willingly, but find that they cannot repay ru...

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5 d. ago Two men in court charged with prison murder of Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins

Convicted child sexual abuse offender Watkins was attacked with a knife at HMP Wakefield on SaturdayTwo men have appeared in court after being charged with the murder of the former Lostprophets singer and convicted child sexual abuse offender, Ian Watkins, in prison.Rashid Gedel, 25, and Samuel Dodsworth, 43, were produced separately and appeared before Judge Dunne at Leeds magistrates court on Monday. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago ‘How is this possible?’: a new film looks inside the appalling abuses of the Alabama prison system

In the year’s most shocking documentary The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for helpWhen film-makers Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman visited Alabama’s Easterling prison in 2019, they found a deceptively pleasant scene. Like Alabama’s 13 other prisons, Easterling largely prohibits media access, but allowed the documentarians to film its annual volunteer-run barbecue, a sunny day in which incarcerated men, most of them Black, ate fresh roasts to live music and sermons. On camera, men danced and smiled. But off camera, many more told a different story – horrific beatings, unreported stabbings, unimaginable violence swept under the rug and appalling conditions that “ain’t fit for human society”. Cries for help emerged from inside the sweltering, filthy dorms. When Jarecki approached the voices, a prison official shut down filming, claiming that it was unsafe for him to speak to the men without a police chaperone.“It was very clear that there were are...

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7 d. ago Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins dies after being attacked in prison

Forty-eight-year-old was serving 29-year prison sentence after admitting multiple child sex offencesThe convicted child sexual abuser and former Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins has died after being attacked in prison.The 48-year-old was serving a 29-year prison sentence at HMP Wakefield, with a further six years on licence, after admitting a string of sex offences including the attempted rape of a baby. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Ian Watkins dead: Live updates as Lostprophets singer killed in prison

The former singer was serving a long sentence for child sex abuse at Wakefield Prison in West Yorkshire

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3 w. ago Jury deadlocks again in trial of officer charged with sexually abusing inmates at California prison

A federal jury has deadlocked for the second time in a trial of a former correctional officer charged with sexually abusing four inmates at a now-closed federal women’s prison in California

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