The Latest Breaking News from Prison

Suspected rapist leaves country after being accidentally set free weeks before trial

The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, left the country shortly after his release

The Independent UK · Feb 23

Tammy Shipley drank 67 glasses of water before her death in custody from water intoxication, inquest hears

Coroner to examine whether police told prison staff about Aboriginal woman’s acute mental health conditions, despite previous arrest under Mental Health Act

The Guardian - AU · Feb 23

A Hong Kong court uphold the convictions of about a dozen activists in national security case

A Hong Kong court has dismissed all appeals arising from the city’s biggest case brought under a Beijing-imposed national security law

The Independent UK · Feb 23

‘I have given them 21 years of my life, now they want my soul’: IPP prisoner jailed for stealing £20 could be deported in days

Exclusive: Sheldon Coore, who has lived in Britain since he was a toddler, has been moved to an immigration removal centre near Gatwick Airport ahead of his deportation to Jamaica

The Independent UK · Feb 22

'They come to steal': Indian sentenced to 18 years in prison for scamming senior citizens in US, overstayed student visa

A 23-year-old Indian man, Atharva Shailesh Sathawane, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison after he was found guilty of scamming elders in Florida. The sentence was announced in January but the case has now come to the attention of MAGA commentators as their anti-India sentiment becomes louder over…

The Times of India · Feb 22

222 Love Portal Is Open: 5 Ways to Attract Your Dream Love Partner

There are moments in the year when the energy around us feels sharper, quieter, more potent, as if the universe pauses and offers a gentle invitation. February holds such a moment: the 222 Love Portal, a doorway not just of numbers, but of alignment. It’s not a mystical trick, nor…

Times Life · Feb 22

‘I’m going to fight’: freed Venezuelan activist on life after Maduro’s downfall

Jesús Armas’s joy at being released has been tempered by reality that the march towards democracy will be slow

The Guardian - UK · Feb 22

The real-life murder case behind ‘The Lady’: How Sarah Ferguson’s former dresser went from the palace to prison

IN FOCUS: A new drama about Jane Andrews, Sarah Ferguson’s ex-right-hand woman who ended up in jail for murder, is airing just as the former duchess is already at the centre of a media storm. Katie Rosseinsky looks back at the harrowing case

The Independent UK · Feb 22

David Jonsson: ‘A life of prison and addiction was just one step away from me’

INTERVIEW: The ‘Rye Lane’ and ‘The Long Walk’ actor plays a terrified prison inmate in his new film ‘Wasteman’. He speaks to Adam White about how the role hit close to home, his perspective on his colour-blind casting in an Agatha Christie adaptation, and why he chose to step away…

The Independent UK · Feb 22

Ghislaine Maxwell fighting release of documents from Virginia Giuffre’s civil defamation lawsuit

Giuffre said Epstein had trafficked her to other men, including the former Prince Andrew, now known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor

The Independent UK · Feb 21