Tags: Prison

The felon was in the middle of serving a life sentence for the Christmas Day slaying of 1-year-old Maleah Williams in 2015.

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was sentenced September last year on Iran security charge. The appeal against a five-year prison sentence given to a woman with dual British and Iranian citizenship has been rejected by a court in Iran.

A New Orleans court has ruled to upheld the decision that Muslim inmates in Texas prison should be allowed to wear a knit skullcap and grow a beard, as the religion requires them to. A judge wrote an appeal that the ban on beard and religious headwear violates a 2015 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a previous case in Arkansas.