# Jail

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# Rio de Janeiro

Judge recommends house arrest for Pat Hickey due to his health

He has been in jail since his arrest on 17 August.

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Aug 29th 2016, 6:10 PM

# Your Say

Poll: Should parents who impose a vegan diet on their children be sanctioned?

A new bill facing the Italian parliament could see such parents facing jail time for failing to provide an adequate diet for their children.

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Aug 12th 2016, 9:46 AM

# Diet

New bill in Italy aims to jail parents who impose vegan diet on children

The bill follows a series of high-profile cases in which children became ill after allegedly being restricted to a vegan diet.

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Aug 11th 2016, 12:43 PM

# Courts

Pregnant teenage girl with 26 convictions jailed after 'stamping and kicking man's head 15 times'

Fifteen months of her three-year sentence has been suspended.

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Jun 29th 2016, 6:36 PM

# Northern Ireland

Man and woman jailed for two years for human trafficking offences

Police rescued 13 victims during an operation in Belfast three years ago.

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Jun 28th 2016, 2:21 PM

# baby adelaide

French mother who left her baby to die on a winter beach jailed for 20 years

Fabienne Kabou had blamed the killing on “witchcraft”.

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Jun 24th 2016, 11:03 PM

# Adultery

Dutch woman convicted of adultery after reporting rape in Qatar

The male defendant in the case was sentenced to 140 lashes, but he will not serve any jail time.

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Jun 13th 2016, 11:59 AM

# Brawl

Saved by the Bell star back in jail after violating probation

Dustin Diamond was recently released after serving time for disorderly conduct and concealed-weapon convictions.

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May 26th 2016, 8:11 AM

# peru 2

Fate of Melissa Reid to be decided in coming days

The Scottish native has been in a Peruvian jail since 2013.

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Apr 27th 2016, 11:46 AM

# Egypt

Ibrahim Halawa transferred prisons and is not missing

It was earlier reported that he had been moved and his family were unaware of his whereabouts.

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Apr 12th 2016, 5:50 PM

# Limerick

Judge warns mother she'll go to jail if daughter misses another day at school

The 15-year-old has already missed 60% of the current school term.

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Apr 1st 2016, 4:29 PM

# Australia

The man who raped and killed Jill Meagher is appealing for his jail time to be cut

Bayley was subsequently found guilty of raping three other women, two in the same year as Meagher’s brutal murder.

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Mar 9th 2016, 8:51 AM

# Waterford

Asylum seeker (22) jailed for five years for raping woman

He had met her on a night out and offered her a lift home.

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Feb 29th 2016, 3:17 PM

# Egypt

Man facing jail for saying women cheat on their husbands

The comments created a stir in southern Egypt.

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Feb 24th 2016, 3:22 PM

# freedom

After years in solitary confinement, an innocent woman struggles to get on with her life

Of her first 29 months in jail, Hailey served about 27 alone in a 6-by-10-foot cell, with a bed, a toilet and a few books to pass the time.

36.9k

Feb 21st 2016, 8:30 AM

# bill kenneally

Waterford coach jailed for sex abuse was 'a beast' and 'an animal', say victims

He will spend 14 years in prison.

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Feb 19th 2016, 5:50 PM

# attic conversion

Wicklow man jailed for carrying out dangerous electrical work

Michael O’Connell received a six-month sentence after his work was found to have posed a serious safety risk to the occupants of the house.

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Feb 12th 2016, 1:05 PM

# lifers

When life means life: 'God help me. The devil made me do it'

In the 1970s, two serial killers from the UK came to Ireland planning to rape and kill a woman every week.

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Jan 17th 2016, 10:00 PM

# Texas

No charges in controversial jailhouse death of black woman

Sandra Bland’s family had disputed the coronor’s conclusion that she died by suicide.

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Dec 23rd 2015, 9:18 AM

# Tragic

A father in the UK has been jailed for murdering his six-month old son

Piotr Sobczyk will serve a minimum of 16 and a half years.

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Dec 22nd 2015, 10:19 PM

# Cairo

Egypt rejects call to release Ibrahim Halawa as trial postponed again

In a harsh statement, Cairo also called on the European body to reconsider its approach to similar cases in the future.

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Dec 19th 2015, 12:24 PM

# very dangerous men

Here's how the two most infamous drug barons in history compare with each other

Colombia’s Pablo Escobar and Mexico’s Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman proved to be a law unto themselves.

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Nov 8th 2015, 9:15 AM

# Education

Rehabilitation services: What exactly is being offered and how many prisoners are using them

“Prison is about network-building and if those on the inside aren’t educated, this will foster more crime on the outside.”

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Oct 31st 2015, 7:45 AM

# pound of flesh

US judge makes defendants give blood or face going to jail

An ethics complaint has been lodged against Judge Marvin Wiggins.

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Oct 21st 2015, 5:45 PM

# South Africa

Parole board meeting today to reconsider Oscar Pistorius' release

Earlier this week Pistorius’s family accused officials of bowing to “political and media hype” after the star’s release was again delayed.

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Oct 9th 2015, 7:53 AM

# fixing the system

Watch the moment Barack Obama met jailed drug dealers for a new prison documentary

The programme looks at whether non-violent drug dealers should face long jail-terms.

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Sep 27th 2015, 10:40 PM

# Glasgow

Karen Buckley murderer to appeal length of prison sentence

Alexander Pacteau was ordered to serve a minimum of 23 years in prison before he can apply for parole.

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Sep 19th 2015, 7:34 AM

Evening Wrap

The 5 at 5 5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…

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Aug 11th 2015, 4:50 PM

# Birmingham

Teen who attacked and humiliated two girls in viral video avoids jail

The girl has been remanded into council accommodation for her own safety.

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Aug 4th 2015, 10:17 AM

# Texas

Woman who died in Texas jail cell told police of previous suicide attempt

The woman’s family disputes this claim and their lawyer said social activists like Bland “don’t take their own life”.

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Jul 23rd 2015, 11:21 AM

# Courts

Father in Roscommon 'House of Horrors' will spend less time in jail

He will now spend 11 years in prison, 18 months less than previously expected.

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Jul 16th 2015, 4:12 PM

# Abortion

A lot of you don't know abortion carries a 14-year jail sentence

A substantial proportion of people did not know it is a crime to get an abortion when a woman’s life is not at risk.

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Jul 8th 2015, 11:20 PM

# wash out

'All bark and no bite': No one will be brought to court over water charges until 2017

Legislation published yesterday would also abolish imprisonment of people who refuse to pay.

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Jul 1st 2015, 10:21 AM

# West of Ireland

Sisters abused and neglected by parents before toddler sexually assaulted by paedophile babysitter

Michael O’Brien was today sentenced to three and a half years for sexually assaulting the youngest sibling.

49.7k

Jun 29th 2015, 5:37 PM

# Courts

Rapist unwilling to engage in sex offenders programme gets extra jail time

The 54-year-old man pleaded not guilty to 60 counts of sexual assault of six sisters between 1994 and 2005.

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Jun 18th 2015, 9:15 PM

# Malaysia

"We are relieved": Tourists who stripped naked on 'sacred mountain' allowed to go home

Some in the country blamed them for causing a deadly earthquake on the mountain.

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Jun 12th 2015, 4:04 PM

# Manhunt

Son says his mum "wouldn't help" these dangerous convicted killers escape prison

A huge search for the two men is ongoing.

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Jun 10th 2015, 12:08 PM

# freedom

Two men on death row wrongfully convicted of killing little girl to get just $750k

New DNA evidence proved the two men were not guilty of the murder in 1983. They spent three decades in prison.

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Jun 4th 2015, 9:54 PM

# prisoner complaints

Prisoners in Irish jails are being forced to sleep on floors

Reports by the Prison Visiting Committees of eleven prisons have been released this morning,

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May 27th 2015, 1:43 PM

# South Africa

Men who strangled nun with typewriter cord get life sentences

The accused “showed no remorse”.

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May 15th 2015, 9:59 PM