6 d. ago Scots domestic abuse survivor slams justice delay while abuser films Barlinnie TV documentary

Hamilton Sheriff Court heard that Andrew Cunningham missed his appointment with a social worker because he was filming a BBC TV documentary about Barlinnie prison.

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1 week ago Ban inmates from cooking after Hashem Abedi assault, says prison union

Chair of prison workers body says copycat incidents must be prevented after attack by convicted terroristThe union representing prison officers has said inmates should be banned from cooking in jail, with staff fearing copycat incidents after the brother of the Manchester Arena bomber attacked three officers at HMP Frankland.Hashem Abedi, a convicted terrorist who was jailed for life after helping his suicide bomber brother Salman Abedi carry out the Manchester Arena attack in 2017, is alleged to have set upon staff with hot cooking oil and improvised blades. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Social worker imprisoned nearly 4 years for mediation attempts at Hong Kong protests

A Hong Kong social worker has been sentenced to three years and nine months in prison for rioting after she tried to mediate between protesters and police at the 2019 anti-government protests

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3 w. ago ‘It’s really crude’: concern over mix of misogyny and Franco nostalgia among Spanish teens

Netflix drama Adolescence sharpens debate over toxic masculinity – and in Spain it is mixed with ignorance over dictatorshipThree or four years ago, the Spanish psychologist Jesús Moreno began to notice a difference in the drawings that the young participants in his workshops on masculinity produced when asked to sketch out their idea of what a man looks like.The figures they drew were no longer merely the muscular and bizarrely well-endowed drug dealers, etched with prison tattoos and surrounded by guns, knives, cars, sex workers and bundles of cash, to which Moreno and his colleagues had long grown accustomed. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Business bosses face 60k fines and prison for employing illegal workers in new migration crackdown

Yvette Cooper set to ramp up Labour’s measures to tackle illegal immigration

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3 w. ago 'Loverboy' lag who had flings with two female prison workers on the run from police

Harri Pullen, 27, is on the run from police in Wales who want him in connection to alleged drug offences. Four women, aged between their 20s and 50s, have been arrested for helping him run-away

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4 w. ago Hugo boss flip flops and toothbrush carrying drugs boss's DNA were found at home of female prison governor he was having fling with after she signed off his release, court hears

Anthony Saunderson, who used the name Jesse Pinkman, a meth dealer in the TV show Breaking Bad , is accused of having a relationship with 'petite, blonde and bubbly' Kerri Pegg, 42.

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4 w. ago Female prison officer, 22, is jailed after fling with 'empathetic' career criminal

Niamh Lloyd, who was employed at Forest Bank Jail in Salford, met Lee Makin, 40, a notorious burglar serving a six-year sentence, during her time at the facility.

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