28 h. ago SNP Justice Secretary Angela Constance accused of misleading Parliament on trans prisoners debate

The Scottish Conservatives blasted the government minister for refusing to comment on an ongoing court case.

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30 h. ago SNP minister Angus Robertson denies misleading Parliament over Historic Environment Scotland scandal

The Tories previously said Angus Robertson, the senior SNP minister, had ‘serious questions to answer’

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49 h. ago Why John Swinney must go over trans women in female prisons and grooming gangs

The First Minister’s reason for not backing an inquiry into grooming gangs does not stand up to scrutiny

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51 h. ago Rioting at Ecuadorian prison leaves 31 inmates dead and dozens injured

Prisons officials in Ecuador say deadly rioting that broke out at a prison where inmates were set to be transferred to a new maximum-security facility has left at least 31 inmates killed and 30 others injured

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4 d. ago John Swinney is risking his political career to put trans women in female prisons

A biological male who identifies as a woman has no place in a female prison, writes Susan Dalgety

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8 d. ago Death of Scots transgender prisoner in cell could have been avoided

Sarah Jane Riley took her own life in January 2019 after a number of "missed opportunities", a Fatal Accident Inquiry has found.

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8 d. ago ‘Beating, torturing, killing’: freed Palestinian author on life in Israeli jails

Nasser Abu Srour says prisons became like ‘another front’ in Gaza war and tells of struggle to adjust to life outsideA celebrated Palestinian author who was freed last month after more than 32 years in Israeli prisons has said the use of torture increased dramatically during his last two years of captivity as Israel came to treat its jails as another front in the Gaza war.Nasser Abu Srour, whose prison memoir has been translated into seven languages and is tipped to win a major international literary prize this month, was among more than 150 Palestinians serving life sentences who were freed as part of the US-brokered Gaza ceasefire and then immediately exile to Egypt, where most remain in limbo. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Torture in Israeli prisons rose sharply during war, says freed Palestinian author

Nasser Abu Srour says prisons became like ‘another front’ in Gaza conflict and tells of struggle to adjust to life outsideA celebrated Palestinian author who was freed last month after more than 32 years in Israeli prisons has said the use of torture increased dramatically during his last two years of captivity as Israel came to treat its jails as another front in the Gaza war.Nasser Abu Srour, whose prison memoir has been translated into seven languages and is tipped to win a major international literary prize this month, was among more than 150 Palestinians serving life sentences who were freed as part of the US-brokered Gaza ceasefire and then immediately exiled to Egypt, where most remain in limbo. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Chile to end Pinochet henchmen’s pampered prison life of tennis and barbecues

Punta Peuco – where military human rights offenders enjoy privileged conditions – set to join public prison networkInmates at an infamous high-security military prison in Chile, which houses the perpetrators of dictatorship-era human rights crimes, are set to lose their privileged conditions under plans to incorporate the prison into the public prison network.President Gabriel Boric announced on Monday that Punta Peuco is being transformed into a regular prison to help deal with overcrowding in the penitentiary system. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Brit pregnant 'drug mule' Bella Culley given 'proper toilet' after move to new Georgia prison

Bella May Culley's mother, Lyanne Kennedy, said the 19-year-old has been transferred to a prison with a mother and baby unit as the family keeps calling for her to return home

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9 d. ago Pregnant Brit 'drug mule' Bella Culley gets 'proper toilet' after Georgia prison move

Bella May Culley's mother, Lyanne Kennedy, said the 19-year-old has been transferred to a prison with a mother and baby unit as the family keeps calling for her to return home

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1 week ago Pregnant teen 'drug mule' Bella Culley forced to 'toast bread over candle' to eat in prison

Bella Culley, 19, who is due to give birth in December, has been transferred to a prison "mother and baby" unit in Georgia, her mum has said, after she was charged with drug smuggling

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1 week ago Sean 'Diddy' Combs transferred to New Jersey prison to serve 4

Sean “Diddy” Combs has been transferred to a prison in New Jersey to serve out the remainder of his four-year prison sentence on prostitution-related charges

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1 week ago P Diddy 'moved' out of 'inhumane' prison from hell as judge grants disgraced mogul's request

P Diddy has reportedly begun serving his federal prison sentence and has been transferred from the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn to FCI Fort Dix in New Jersey

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1 week ago Double child killer cannot be released from prison, Parole Board says

The Parole Board decided to keep him behind bars and did not recommend him to be transferred to open prison.

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2 w. ago Labour left piles pressure on Starmer as sacked critic elected to be his deputy leader

Lucy Powell has beaten Keir Starmer’s preferred candidate education secretary Bridget Phillipson in the contest to replace Angela Rayner as deputy leader

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2 w. ago UK minister refuses to say if Douglas Alexander tried to reverse 'unfair' fishing fund

Dame Angela Eagle ignored a question about whether the Scottish Secretary had spoken to her about Scotland receiving just eight per cent of the Fishing and Coastal Growth Fund.

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3 w. ago The Guardian view on Sarkozy’s first day in prison: no citizen is above the law | Editorial

Attempts by the former French president and his supporters to discredit the legal process by which he was sentenced have been irresponsible and unjustifiedAs he was transported to La Santé prison in Paris on Tuesday, Nicolas Sarkozy posted a message brimming with defiance on X, writing “It’s not a former president of the republic who is being jailed this morning, it’s an innocent man”. A court of appeal will eventually give its view on the veracity of the second clause of that statement. But unfortunately for Mr Sarkozy, the drama and significance of his fall cannot simply be wished away.President of France between 2007 and 2012, Mr Sarkozy was found guilty of criminal conspiracy to obtain illicit campaign funds from the regime of the late Libyan dictator, Muammar Gaddafi. Handed a five‑year sentence, he has become the first former leader of an EU country to go behind bars, and the first French leader since the disgraced head of Vichy France, Philippe Pétain...

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3 w. ago Lucy Powell hits out at anonymous briefing in Labour deputy leadership race

Her opponent Bridget Phillipson said she had also been subjected to ‘vicious’ briefing.

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3 w. ago Rangers the reason for Celtic cash stash as legendary star warns Hoops they face rude awakening

Don Hutchison also hit out at his boyhood favourite’s transfer policy in an interview in which he took no prisoners

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