Solano State Prison

Germany cools on Russian prisoner swap after Navalny death

...The Russian opposition leader’s allies said on Monday that Navalny, who died in prison earlier this month at 47, was about to be freed from prison on the eve of his death and they accused Putin of having...

February 26, 2024

Inside Politics

Sunak’s prisons problem traces back to Home Office reform

...He can act effectively as an auxiliary minister of state working with a department — frankly, this policy is minister-of-state level stuff....

April 10, 2024

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Netherlands

‘Super cartel’ member sentenced to life in Dutch prison

...A key figure in the Dubai-based “super cartel” that supplied a third of Europe’s cocaine has been sentenced to life in prison by a Dutch court as international prosecutors close in on other drugs bosses...

February 27, 2024

HTSI

Mark Bradford’s art of glass

...“It’s all in such a contrast to the United States where the prison [system] has very little humanity,” writes Bradford in the new book that details this collaboration....

April 4, 2024

Ecuador

Ecuador’s president declares war with drug gangs as prison guards held hostage

...“But we cannot stop the war over this because the state is at war in every province.”...

January 10, 2024

ReviewFilm

Beyond Utopia film review — stark documentary follows North Korean defectors

...Gavin also has to manage the knot of irony at the heart of the film: the prison state the Rohs are fleeing is still the subject of our grim curiosity. The balancing act is deft....

October 26, 2023

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Law

Lawyers struggling to gain access to clients in prisons in England and Wales

...state of the justice system....

January 21, 2024

Russia

Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny dies in Arctic prison

...Margarita Simonyan, editor of state news network RT, said: “I won’t even try to explain [to the west] that everyone forgot about him long ago, that there was no point in killing him, especially before the...

February 16, 2024

El Salvador

El Salvador’s gang inmates will face life in prison, vows president’s deputy

...“Although they will die in prison, they are human beings, they have rights,” he said....

January 31, 2024

Ecuador

Police and army free staff taken hostage at Ecuador’s prisons

...Noboa has declared a two-month state of emergency with nightly curfews....

January 14, 2024

Pakistan's politics

Imran Khan sentenced to 10 years in prison ahead of Pakistan election

...Khan’s latest conviction stems from allegations he violated state secrecy laws when he waved a diplomatic cable at a public rally in 2022....

January 30, 2024

Bangladesh

Bangladeshi court sentences Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus to 6 months in prison

...A Bangladeshi court has sentenced Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus to six months in prison over labour law violations, escalating what his supporters call a vendetta by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina...

January 1, 2024

Israel-Hamas war

Qatar reconsiders mediator role between Hamas and Israel

...In return Israel freed 240 Palestinian women and children held in its prisons, and allowed more aid into besieged Gaza, where more than 33,000 people have been killed, according to Palestinian officials....

April 18, 2024

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Arizona’s top court rules in favour of near-total abortion ban

...It carries a penalty of up to five years in prison for providers....

April 9, 2024

ExplainerDonald Trump

How Trump’s trial calendar is shaping up ahead of 2024 election

...State prosecutors had requested the trial begin for the remaining defendants on August 5....

March 15, 2024

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Julian Assange

Julian Assange granted reprieve in appeal against US extradition

...“Unless the government of the United States of America and the secretary of state provide satisfactory assurances in respect of those grounds, the court will grant leave to appeal.”...

March 26, 2024

ObituaryAlexei Navalny

Alexei Navalny, Russian opposition activist, 1976-2024

...A decade later he bought shares in Russia’s largest state-owned oil and gas companies in order to campaign against graft....

February 16, 2024

Haiti

Haiti declares state of emergency after mass jailbreak

...Haiti’s government has imposed a 72-hour state of emergency and night curfew after gangs that control swaths of the capital Port-au-Prince over-ran two prisons and freed thousands of inmates....

March 4, 2024

Reproductive rights

Arizona court bans almost all abortions in Trump-Biden swing state

...It carries a penalty of up to five years in prison for providers....

April 9, 2024

News in-depthUK prisons

‘Inhumane’: chief inspector describes chaos in English prisons

...It is a picture that is widespread, with four prisons having received urgent notifications from Taylor’s inspectorate in the past year to alert the justice ministry to their dire state....

October 19, 2023

Drug trafficking

Ecuador arrests 6,000 people in month-long gang crackdown

...“We stand in support of Ecuador in its fight to combat drug trafficking, curb the proliferation of prison gangs and prison violence, and take back its streets.”...

February 8, 2024

Haiti

Haiti’s prime minister turns up in Puerto Rico with his country in chaos

...On Sunday authorities declared a 72-hour state of emergency and nightly curfew in the hope of quelling the recent squall of violence that UN officials say has displaced 15,000 people....

March 6, 2024

UK prisons

Prisons are reaching bursting point in England and Wales, ministers concede

...Commenting on reports that judges had been ordered to delay sentencing, he said: “That rapists and burglars are being spared from jail due to overcrowding in prisons underlines the dire state of our criminal...

October 12, 2023

News in-depthArgentina

Violence in Argentina’s drug capital tests Javier Milei’s small-state vision

...“The gangs have never felt more empowered . . . and the state has never been more disempowered and had so few resources.”...

April 1, 2024

Leo Lewis

Oodles of noodles: how a global favourite became an economic red flag

...Outside prison, though, noodles are showing their strength in adversity....

March 14, 2024

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