24 h. ago The British drug smugglers back in the UK after prison time abroad

Bella May Culley and Lindsay Sandiford have been released from prisons in Georgia and Indonesia respectively

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5 d. ago 'I was with Charles Bronson when inmate cried and will never forget what he did'

Noel 'Razor' Smith spent 30 years in prison after committing over 200 robberies and during his time behind bars he struck up a friendship with notorious inmate Charles Bronson

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6 d. ago Pregnant British teenager Bella Culley speaks for first time after being freed from Georgia prison

Bella Culley, a pregnant British teenager who was held in Georgia over drug smuggling charges, has spoken out for the first time after being freed from prison.

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6 d. ago Pregnant UK teenager Bella May Culley freed from Georgian jail

Culley, 19, who was arrested on drug-smuggling charges in May, is released after plea dealThe pregnant British teenager Bella Culley has been released from a Georgian prison, where she had been held for six months on drug-smuggling charges after a plea deal.Culley, 19, who is pregnant, was arrested in May at Tbilisi airport and accused of attempting to smuggle 12kg (26.5lbs) of marijuana and 2kg (4.4lbs) of hashish into the country. She was found guilty by a Georgian court on Monday and sentenced to five months and 25 days in prison, the total time she had already spent in custody. Her family also paid a 500,000 lari (about £137,000) fine as part of a plea deal. Culley and her mother, Lyanne Kennedy, both cried as the verdict was read out. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Diddy seen in prison for first time as he walks through yard with gray beard after starting new job behind bars

Photographs show Combs, 55, walking through the yard at Fort Dix Federal Correctional Institute during recreation time on Friday.

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9 d. ago Justice Department strips Jan. 6 references from court paper and punishes prosecutors who filed it

The Justice Department has stripped references to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack from court papers and punished two federal prosecutors who filed the document seeking prison time at sentencing Thursday for an armed rioter arrested near former President Barack Obama's home

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1 week ago Government’s justice reforms aim to restore public trust in system – minister

Reforms include further prison time for criminals who refused to turn up to their sentencing, and restricting parental rights for rapists.

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2 w. ago Inside the grim walls of La Santé prison where former President Nicolas Sarkozy faces years in isolation

The 70-year-old has been ordered to serve his time at La Santé prison in Paris, a far cry from the Élysée Palace. He now finds himself confined to a ten-square-metre cell.

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2 w. ago The rise and fall of Nicolas Sarkozy: Former French president jailed in historic first

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy begun serving a prison sentence in Paris on Tuesday (21 October) – the first time a leader of the French Fifth Republic has been jailed.

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2 w. ago What we know about the prison where former French president Nicolas Sarkozy will serve time

It remains unclear whether Sarkozy will be placed in isolation or within the “VIP quarters”

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2 w. ago Nicolas Sarkozy to enter prison for criminal conspiracy over Libyan funding

Former French president set to start five-year sentence for scheme to obtain campaign funds from Muammar Gaddafi’s regimeThe former French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, will go to prison on Tuesday after a court sentenced him to five years for criminal conspiracy over a scheme to obtain election campaign funds from the regime of the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.Sarkozy, who was the rightwing president of France between 2007 and 2012, will become the first former head of an EU country to serve time in prison, and the first French postwar leader to be jailed. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Disgraced George Santos ‘decompressing’ from ‘traumatic’ prison time after being released early by Trump

The 37-year-old former Republican congressman served just 84 days of his more than seven-year sentence for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft

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3 w. ago Syirin Said, dead paedo Ian Watkins' bandmate's wife admits: 'friends vanished'

Syirin Said, the wife of Lee Gaze, has spoken out about the impact of Ian Watkins' horrific crimes for the first time since the disgraced rocker was murdered in prison

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3 w. ago Prison guard faces same jail he worked at for running chicken wing pipeline to inmates

Amos Nyanway might be facing prison time in the very same correctional facility he stood guard at after it was alleged he ran an illegal fried chicken wing pipeline

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3 w. ago Gavin Newsom again denies parole for Manson follower Patricia Krenwinkel

California governor blocks 77-year-old’s parole for second time, saying she ‘poses an unreasonable danger to society’Gavin Newsom this week again denied parole for Patricia Krenwinkel, who has spent more than half a century in prison for her role in the 1969 Tate-LaBianca killings orchestrated by Charles Manson and perpetrated by his followers.Nearly five months after California’s parole board found the 77-year-old suitable for release, the governor on Monday reversed the decisionand said Krenwinkel “currently poses an unreasonable danger to society if released from prison at this time’”. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Breaking 'little known' toilet law at home could trigger unlimited fine

Doing this could result in expensive damage, unlimited fines or prison time

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3 w. ago Ian Watkins' appearance had 'totally changed' before death, insider says

Ian Watkins was brutally murdered in his prison cell over the weekend - but details about his time behind bars have been shared before now

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3 w. ago Mystery visitors plunged Ghislaine Maxwell’s Texas prison camp into lockdown as inmates complain of preferential treatment, report says

Maxwell had a mysterious meeting in the prison’s chapel that prevented other inmates from getting their outdoor time, per the report

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3 w. ago Mystery visitors plunged Maxwell’s Texas prison camp into lockdown as inmates complain of preferential treatment, report says

Maxwell had a mysterious meeting in the prison’s chapel that prevented other inmates from getting their outdoor time, per the report

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3 w. ago Warden at Maxwell’s cushy Texas prison camp warned other inmates not to bully her

Maxwell had a mysterious meeting in the prison’s chapel that prevented other inmates from getting their outdoor time, per the report

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