4 h. ago Pregnant British teen 'drug mule' facing life in Georgia prison set for release if 'substantial' fine paid

Bella May Culley, 19, is accused of carrying £200,000 worth of narcotics into the ex-Soviet country

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6 h. ago Tagging criminals in prison to be trialled to close ‘surveillance gap’

A pilot programme of tagging offenders in prison on the day of their release is set to begin in October.

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9 h. ago Prison officer shooting UPDATES as killer sentenced for murder over jail affair

Elias Morgan tracked down prisoner officer Lenny Scott after he was released from prison and shot the father of three six times as he was leaving the gym in Skelmersdale, on February 8, last year

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30 h. ago 'We'll speak to our dead via an AI app in 5 years – and nobody will visit a cemetery'

A University of Cambridge professor predicts that, in a few years' time, we'll stop going to cemeteries and simply speak to our dead on AI-generated apps - although she's worried what this might mean for humankind

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38 h. ago James Bulger killer Jon Venables could be freed within months after parole bid win

Jon Venables could be released from prison in just a few months if his killer wins his latest parole bid.

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54 h. ago Yvette Cooper ordered to end detention of asylum seeker with schizophrenia

Home secretary could face legal action over decision to keep 25-year-old man from Nigeria in prisonYvette Cooper could face legal action over the decision to keep an asylum seeker with schizophrenia in prison.The high court has ordered the home secretary to release the 25-year-old man by 8 September, and the Home Office may have to pay him damages for breaching his human rights. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Prime Madeleine McCann suspect to be released from prison within weeks

Local authorities say convicted rapist Christian Brückner, 48, remains a serious danger to society

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4 d. ago Madeleine McCann suspect to be released from prison within weeks

Madeleine McCann went missing while on holiday with her family in May 2007

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5 d. ago Politicians given warning from voters over Lucy Connolly after vile asylum tweet

A More in Common poll found fewer than one in five people (18%) think politicians should cosy up to Lucy Connolly, while more than half (51%) think they should keep their distance

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5 d. ago Man threatened to burn down café and stab customers with a screwdriver just five days after prison release

Terrence Maughan, 40, was sentenced to 39 months in prison

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5 d. ago Jealous headteacher who battered deputy with wrench released from prison

Anthony Felton, was headteacher at St Joseph's Roman Catholic Comprehensive in Aberavon, south Wales when he attacked his deputy Richard Pyke with a metal wrench

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6 d. ago Jealous headteacher who attacked deputy with wrench released from prison

Anthony Felton was jailed for two years and four months in April after admitting attempted grievous bodily harm

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7 d. ago Sex offender, 84, killed in 'brutal and sustained' attack after recent release from prison: Man in 40s arrested over 'murder'

Sean Small, 84, was discovered near his Newcastle property in County Down, Northern Ireland, late on Sunday night.

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7 d. ago The case against Kilmar Ábrego García is a study in sadistic absurdity | Moira Donegan

In its allegations against the Maryland man, the Trump administration is claiming authority over reality itselfIn a way, you could think of the brief stint that Kilmar Ábrego García spent in a Tennessee jail after his return from a Salvadorian prison camp in June as a kind of protective custody. Ábrego, a Maryland resident who had never been charged with any crime either in the US or in his native El Salvador, became a symbol of the Trump administration’s ambitiously sadistic anti-immigration efforts when he was kidnapped by I agents in March and sent without due process to Cecot, a massive prison in El Salvador from which few detainees are ever released, as a result of what representatives for the Trump immigration authorities called an administrative error. Ábrego became a symbol for the several hundred men who had been deprived of their liberty and deported to the distant foreign prison without due process and in defiance of both American and international law.It was only after e...

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8 d. ago EastEnders' Max Bowden talks 'naughty' Ben Mitchell return as he teases chaotic comeback

Max Bowden has let slip some details of his EastEnders return as Ben Mitchell is set to be released from prison to attend the funeral of a major character

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8 d. ago The puppet masters and narcissists are feasting on racist Lucy Connolly

She delivered on the xenophobic checklist on her tour of the right wing and extremist media

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9 d. ago Use of short prison sentences to be reduced and well behaved inmates to be released early under new plans

"This Government inherited a prisons system days away from collapse..."

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9 d. ago Lucy Connolly's jailing over social media post to be discussed in US Congress during Nigel Farage testimony

The mother was behind bars for more than a year after admitting making the inflammatory post on X in the wake of the Southport attacks in July last year.

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1 week ago Nigel Farage must not be allowed to slander Britain as broken

Editorial: The failures of asylum policy do not mean that this country is descending into violent disorder – or that Lucy Connolly is a martyr. Truth, justice and fairness must remain cornerstones for the UK

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1 week ago Lucy Connolly claims she was Starmer’s ‘political prisoner’ after release from jail for race hate post

Connolly said Donald Trump’s lawyers are ‘keen to speak’ after she was released from prison on Thursday

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