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Real life ‘Hotel Rwanda’ hero Paul Rusesabagina released from prison
Almost 30 years ago, Paul Rusesabagina saved hundreds of his own countrymen during the inter-ethnic genocide that gripped Rwanda. His actions inspired the film Hotel Rwanda. But eighteen months ago he was sentenced to 25 years in prison for treason. He says his arrest was prompted by his criticism of the Rwandan President’s human rights…
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‘Until they are out, I will not be free’: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe on Iranian prisoners
Iran says that more than 22,000 people who were detained during anti-government protests have been pardoned by the country’s supreme leader.
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Conditions in women’s prison Eastwood Park like ‘a Victorian asylum’, says Chief Inspector of Prisons
Women with acute mental health conditions are being held in “terrible conditions” in a prison with scratched and “blood-splattered” walls, a watchdog has warned.
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Nicola Sturgeon explains Scottish Government’s decision to pause transfers of some transgender prisoners to women’s prisons
Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said that “heightened public concern” contributed to the Scottish Government’s decision yesterday to pause transfers to women’s prisons of transgender prisoners with any history of violence against women.
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Transgender woman found guilty of raping two women is moved to men’s prison
The transgender woman found guilty of raping two women when she was a man has been moved to a men’s prison and will not serve her sentence in a women’s jail.
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Killamarsh murderer given whole-life prison sentence
A man who murdered his pregnant partner, her son and daughter and another girl, has been told he’ll spend the rest of his life in prison.
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Brittney Griner arrives home in Texas after being freed from Russia in prisoner exchange
Vladimir Putin has said that further prisoner swaps between the US and Russia were possible – and that dialogue between the two country’s intelligence services would continue – following the release of Brittney Griner. The basketball star today arrived home in Texas having been freed from a Russian penal colony in return for a notorious…
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George Takei on how his family were imprisoned in Japanese internment camps in US
When he made his name in Star Trek as Lieutenant Sulu, actor George Takei had already lived a life worthy of a Hollywood movie.
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Government and prison service must act to reduce overcrowding, says Prisons’ Chief Inspector
As police cells are requested to hold prisoners, we spoke with the Chief Inspector of Prisons, Charlie Taylor, about how bad things really are in prisons right now.
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Police cells to hold prisoners to avoid overcrowding
Ministers have revealed that they’ve been forced to make an urgent request to use four hundred police cells to hold prisoners. The Justice Minister pinned the blame on the impact of the pandemic and the barristers’ strike but Labour called it yet “another crisis created by this shambolic Tory government”.
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The teenagers ‘mentally imprisoned’ by violence
More than half of young people aged 13 to 17 have seen real life, community violence on social media in the past 12 months.
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‘Home Office needs to get a grip’, says chief inspector of prisons
We spoke to Chief Inspector of Prisons Charlie Taylor. He has been monitoring Manston, visiting twice in the last few months. His report into the detention centre is out tomorrow and we asked him about the conditions at Manston from his last inspection.
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Iran: At least four dead in Evin prison fire
At least four people have been killed and more than 60 others injured after a fire at Tehran’s notorious Evin prison, according to Iran’s state news agency.
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Parkland shooter spared death penalty and gets life in prison
A gunman who killed seventeen people at a high school in Parkland, Florida in 2018 has been spared the death penalty.
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MPs condemn ‘acute harm’ caused to prisoners by IPP sentences
It’s a scheme described as ‘the single greatest stain on our criminal justice system’ by a former supreme court justice.