R Kelly avoids lengthy addition to prison sentence | Courts News
The R&B singer was given one additional year of prison time for child pornography and the enticement of minors for
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California mulls statewide standards for religious garb in jails | Religion News
Los Angeles, California, the US – Sajad Shakoor faced a painful choice while incarcerated at California’s Pleasant Valley State Prison
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El Salvador prisoner ‘rearrests’ fuel new concerns | Prison News
Usulutan, El Salvador – For the past five months, Marcela Alvarado has made an almost daily pilgrimage to different Salvadoran
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400 love letters and a play: How two Indian prisoners found love | Prison
At the entrance to a small bright-green house with a wooden door in the village of Kazhuthapali in India’s southern
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US condemns Nicaragua’s imprisonment of outspoken bishop | Prison News
Bishop Roland Alvarez was sentenced to 26 years in prison after refusing to join other political prisoners in exile. The
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Iranian-French academic Fariba Adelkhah released from Iran prison | Prison News
Fariba Adelkhah has been released from notorious Evin prison but it is unknown under what conditions she was freed. Iranian-French
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Spain offers citizenship to freed Nicaraguan political prisoners | Human Rights News
The announcement comes after Nicaragua’s legislature moved to strip released prisoners of their citizenship. Spanish officials say they have offered
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Nicaragua frees 222 political prisoners, now heading to US | Prison News
Release welcomed as ‘excellent’ news amid Nicaraguan government’s crackdown on opposition figures and critics. Nicaragua has released 222 inmates, many
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Iran supreme leader pardons ‘tens of thousands’ of prisoners | Protests News
Those released from prison include some arrested in recent anti-government protests. Iran’s supreme leader has pardoned or allowed a reduction
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Guantanamo detainee freed to Belize after 20 years in captivity | Human Rights News
Majid Khan, who was tortured by the CIA before his transfer to the US military facility in Cuba, says he
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