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Most of Canada’s dangerous offenders housed in medium- and minimum-security prisons
Federal statistics show most of Canada's more than 700 dangerous offenders are housed in medium and minimum security prisons. A correctional officer enters the gate at Millhaven Institution in Bath, Ontario, on Wednesday Oct. 17, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Lars Hagberg
u.s. politics
Proud Boys leader gets 18-year prison term in U.S. Capitol attack
FILE - Proud Boys members including Zachary Rehl, left, Ethan Nordean, center, and Joseph Biggs, walk toward the U.S. Capitol in Washington, in support of President Donald Trump on Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, fFle)
u.s. politics
Rudy Giuliani surrenders in Trump election subversion case, $150,000 bond set
Former Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani speaks to reporters as he leaves his apartment building in New York, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
international business
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried ‘subsisting on bread and water’ in jail, lawyer says
FILE — FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried leaves Manhattan federal court in New York, Feb. 16, 2023. Prosecutors said Monday, Aug. 14, they'll use testimony from Bankman-Fried's “trusted inner circle” of former executives at his collapsed cryptocurrency empire against him at an October trial. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
alberta
Alberta mother who failed to protect baby daughter from abuse sentenced to jail term
A mother who has pleaded guilty to failing to provide the necessaries of life to her six-week old baby will spend less than two years in jail. Lethbridge Police Headquarters is shown in Lethbridge, Alta., on Wednesday, March 10, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/David Rossiter
u.s. politics
Proud Boy on house arrest in Jan. 6 case disappears ahead of sentencing
FILE - Rioters loyal to President Donald Trump rally at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Jan. 6, 2021. A Florida man who used a flagpole to attack officers who were trying to defend the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, was sentenced on Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023, to four years in prison. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
world
Former South African president Jacob Zuma is freed after brief return to prison
(FILES) Former South African President Jacob Zuma sits in the High Court in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, on January 31, 2022. South Africa's former president Jacob Zuma reported back to jail on August 11, 2023 only to be swiftly released, the government said in the latest twist in the judicial saga over his contempt of court sentence. Zuma was ordered to report back to prison and arrived at 6am local time at a detention facility in Estcourt, northwest of Durban, where was "admitted into the system", the prison service said. But he was let go almost immediately as part of a "remission process" aiming to address overcrowding in prison, Correctional Services national commissioner Makgothi Thobakgale told a press conference in Pretoria. (Photo by Jerome Delay / POOL / AFP) (Photo by JEROME DELAY/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
world
Iran may free five U.S. citizens in prisoner swap, fund deal
FILE PHOTO: The Iranian flag waves in front of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) headquarters, before the beginning of a board of governors meeting, in Vienna, Austria, March 1, 2021. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner/File Photo/File Photo
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Pakistan’s ex-PM Imran Khan goes from high office to high-security prison after sentencing
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan speaks with Reuters during an interview, in Lahore, Pakistan March 17, 2023.
world
Wildfire sets off landmines around Tehran’s Evin prison, Iran’s judiciary says
An Iranian man walks in a street during the heat surge in Tehran, Iran August 2, 2023. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY.
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Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny convicted of extremism and sentenced to 19 years in prison
FILE - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny looks at photographers from behind a glass cage in the Babuskinsky District Court in Moscow, Russia, on Feb. 20, 2021. Navalny due to hear the verdict Friday Aug. 4, 2023 in his latest trial on extremism charges. The prosecution has demanded a 20-year prison sentence, and the politician himself said he expects a lengthy prison term. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)
world
FTX’s Bankman-Fried, seeking to avoid jail, denies witness tampering
FILE PHOTO: Indicted FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried leaves the United States Courthouse in New York City, U.S., July 26, 2023. REUTERS/Amr Alfiky/File Photo
world
Family of world’s longest-jailed journalist still battling to free him from Eritrean prison
Dawit Isaak remains in prison in Eritrea. Nobody has seen him for many years. He has never been granted a trial. He is believed to be one of the world’s longest-imprisoned journalists – and a symbol of the crushed freedoms under Africa’s most repressive regime.
politics
Public Safety department says 2019 Liberal bill did not affect Bernardo’s transfer
Paul Bernardo is shown in this courtroom sketch during Ontario court proceedings via video link in Napanee, Ont., on October 5, 2018. The federal Public Safety department says serial killer and rapist Bernardo would have been transferred to a medium-security prison had the Conservatives' version of the law governing corrections still been in place. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Greg Banning
world
Belarusian journalist sentenced to 6 years in prison for reporting on the opposition
FILE - Belarus journalist Pavel Mazheika speaks to the Associated Press, in the city of Zhlobin, 231 km (144 miles) east of Minsk, Belarus, on Jan. 22, 2003. A prominent journalist in Belarus has been sentenced to six years in prison, the latest step in a years-long crackdown on opposition figures, independent journalists and human rights activists. On trial in the city of Grodno in western Belarus, Pavel Mazheika, 45, was found guilty Wednesday of “complicity in extremist activity” for covering the activities of the political opposition. (AP Photo, File)
world
Mayor of Ecuador port city slain in shooting that kills one other, wounds four
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Trudeau says lessons learned in Bernardo transfer
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Inmates say dangerous conditions inside understaffed Halifax-area jail violate their rights
Cells are seen during a media tour of renovations at the Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility in Halifax on Tuesday, May 15, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan