A woman in China named Wang was sentenced to three years in prison for abducting a 10-month-old baby boy in March 1990 while working as a maid for the Sun family.
A Hong Kong mother was sentenced to 22 years in prison for the abuse and starvation death of her five-year-old son, who weighed only 9.7kg and bore 129 injuries at the time of his death in September 2022.
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Clinton Oliver and Braydon Franklin have been sentenced to life in prison with a 21-year non-parole period for the murder of Caboolture grandmother Donna Howe, whose body was dumped in a Sunshine Coast forest and set on fire in May 2022.
Prisoners in Western Australia are receiving up to $10.15 a week to sleep on cell floors due to severe overcrowding, which judges have cited as grounds to reduce criminal sentences.
Bereaved families in the UK have condemned government plans to release prisoners early to ease overcrowding, warning that dangerous offenders, including killers and child cruelty convicts, may walk free and undermine justice.
Federal police investigate a defence manufacturer vandalism incident as terrorism, Aboriginal community police officers sue the NT government over discrimination, and world oil companies face criticism over massive profits.
Australian authorities are investigating an anti-weapons protest and vandalism at Melbourne's Lovitt Technologies as a potential terrorist act linked to far-left extremists, with suspects facing possible life imprisonment.
Aaron F. Farinacci, 37, was arrested on suspicion of arson for the Old Trails Fire in Spokane, Washington, which has burned over 10,000 acres. Court records reveal Farinacci previously served prison time for fatally shooting his father in 2010.
England and Wales' electronic tagging system for monitoring offenders is failing to alert authorities of potential breaches, warns HM Inspector of Probation Martin Jones, amid plans to release up to 5,000 prisoners early due to overcrowding.
The UK government will introduce new regulations for the funeral industry, including licensing and inspections, after several high-profile cases of abuse, including Robert Bush's 20-year prison sentence for 67 offenses related to funeral services.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham faces early political turmoil as he reluctantly proceeds with a managed early prisoner release scheme to prevent systemic collapse, despite public outcry and the release of certain killers.
Russian human rights ombudswoman Yana Lantratova states that while prisoner exchange talks with Ukraine are difficult, Russia aims to return all its nationals, including soldiers and civilians unable to return home due to the conflict.
Andy Burnham's intervention modifies the UK's prison early release scheme, excluding those convicted of rape, serious child sexual offenses, and grooming, reducing the number of early releases from 6,000 to 5,000 over 10 months.
A 65-year-old repeat sex offender in Hong Kong, William Wu Yiu-shing, was sentenced to four months in prison for groping a 17-year-old student on a bus, after a video of the attack circulated online.
Udhayanidhi Stalin, Tamil Nadu Opposition Leader, faces backlash for an offensive remark during a Cauvery dispute protest, interpreted as a double entendre referencing actor Trisha, prompting calls for his arrest and criticism from BJP and TVK leaders.
Rapists and child sex offenders are excluded from early prison release plans in England and Wales to ease overcrowding, though domestic abusers and killers remain eligible.
Yachua Mauricio Flores, 23, was sentenced to 37 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $253,415 in restitution for his role in a violent anti-ICE protest on a Los Angeles freeway overpass in June 2025.
UK front pages lead on the early prisoner release scheme allowing domestic abusers and killers to go free, Prime Minister Andy Burnham's defense of the plans, Reform UK's small boats policy controversy, and record-breaking dry weather in July.
Christopher Phillips, 60, was jailed for two years and four months for keeping his mother Sylvia Phillips' body in a freezer for nearly three years in Porthcawl, Wales, while fraudulently claiming over £70,000 in her benefits and funds.
An Israeli court has temporarily blocked National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir's plan to use Nile crocodiles to guard security prisoners, mostly Palestinians, in prisons. The injunction follows a petition by the animal-rights organization Let Animals Live, despite a recent re-designation of the animals.
Enio Screpanti, a 67-year-old former prison worker, has been found guilty of the rape and aggravated indecent assault of a female inmate at an Adelaide jail in the early 2020s. After the unanimous guilty verdicts, his bail was revoked, and he was remanded in custody. Screpanti will return to court next month for a pre-sentence hearing.
A former Hong Kong Correctional Services Department officer, Tam Lik-chung, was sentenced to three years in jail for severely wounding an inmate at Pik Uk Prison on December 26, 2023. Tam repeatedly assaulted the victim with a stick, causing rectal bleeding, and then tried to cover up the crime by asking the inmate to lie.
Imprisoned former Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro welcomed dialogue for peace and reconciliation, ahead of a US-backed meeting between Venezuela's interim government and opposition leaders. Maduro, held in New York on drug and firearms charges, conveyed his message via Telegram.
