Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from Prison

Minister to set out reforms as prison overcrowding reaches ‘critical point’

Health Secretary Steve Barclay acknowledged there is ‘huge pressure’ on the prison system.

The Independent UK

New Labour attack ad claims Sunak is letting rapists walk free as prisons crisis deepens

Party’s latest attack ad targets prime minister over prisoners

The Independent UK

Levani Botia: Fiji’s former prison officer hoping to put England on Rugby World Cup lockdown

La Rochelle’s ‘Demolition Man’ and Fijian cult hero will punish any sluggish breakdown work in Sunday’s quarter-final battle in Marseille

Evening Standard

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

A school shooter went viral on TikTok. Should he be on the platform at all?

Trauma experts say Jon Romano, who was released from prison in 2020 after serving time for a 2004 shooting, is doing even more harm

The Guardian - US

England and Wales judges told not to jail criminals as prisons full – report

Senior judge quoted by the Times says ‘biggest concern’ over guidance is those convicted of sexual assault likely to stay on bail

The Guardian - UK

Barclay refuses to say if judges have been told not to jail some criminals

The Health Secretary told broadcasters that Justice Secretary Alex Chalk will address the issue in a statement to the Commons on Monday.

The Independent UK

First minister says SNP MP who defected to Tories ‘probably never believed’ in Scottish independence – as it happened

Humza Yousaf says Lisa Cameron’s move was ‘the least surprising news I’ve had as leader of the SNP’

The Guardian - UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Minister admits prisons under ‘huge pressure’ amid reports burglars and rapists will avoid jail

The senior presiding judge in England and Wales is said to have called for a delay to sentencings to avoid more criminals being put behind bars

Evening Standard

Indigenous boy fighting for life after custody incident

A 16-year-old boy is in a critical condition in hospital after he was found unresponsive in his cell at the Unit 18 detention facility in Western Australia.

AAP

China has sentenced Rahile Dawut to life in prison and would like the world to forget her. We must not

The respected Uyghur scholar became a powerful symbol of the devastation of that culture. Her imprisonment cannot go unchallenged, says author and academic Rachel Harris

The Guardian - UK

Judges told not to jail rapists due to overcrowded prisons

Defendants on bail set to remain free or in court cells while some inmates will be released early

The Independent UK

Emotions run high as Australian mother freed from China

After years of working for Cheng Lei's release from a Chinese prison, the foreign minister has detailed the journalist's emotional return to Australia.

AAP

Indigenous boy, 16, in critical condition after being found unresponsive at WA youth prison

Boy resuscitated at Casuarina prison before being taken to Perth’s Sir Charles Gairdner hospital

The Guardian - AU

An Oklahoma man used pandemic relief funds to have his name cleared of murder

An Oklahoma man who was freed after being imprisoned for decades on a murder conviction says there are more cases like his

The Independent UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

Roberto Saviano faces defamation verdict for remark about Giorgia Meloni

Writer could be imprisoned if found guilty over comments castigating Italian PM for her vitriol about Mediterranean rescues

Chicago Sun-Times

Businessman James T. Weiss gets 5 1/2 years in prison for bribing 2 state lawmakers, lying to the FBI

The judge spent part of the hearing asking about Chicago’s persistent public corruption problem. At one point he stopped a prosecutor and asked, ‘Why does public corruption keep happening?’

The Independent UK

Killer pilot’s release from prison blocked by Justice Secretary

BA captain Robert Brown beat his wife Joanna Simpson to death with a claw hammer in their family home in October 2010.

The Independent UK

Judges told to delay jailing rapists and burglars due to prison overcrowding

Defendants on bail set to remain free or in court cells while some inmates will be released early

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Independent UK

Judges ordered not to jail burglars and rapists due to crowded prisons – report

The senior presiding judge in England and Wales is said to have called for a delay to sentencings to avoid more criminals being put behind bars.

The Independent UK

US Navy sailor admits giving national security secrets to China in return for bribes

Petty Officer Wenheng Zhao faces up to 20 years in prison

The Guardian - UK

Imprisoned Uyghur academic named 2023 PEN writer of courage

Professor and global expert on Uyghur folklore Rahile Dawut was reportedly sentenced to life in prison after going missing six years ago

The Guardian - UK

Stabbing victim’s brother protests for release of man convicted of his murder

Tim Darby stands in Downing Street with mother of Jason Moore, who he believes has been wrongly imprisoned for almost a decade

The Independent UK

Arizona inmate suffers horrific injuries after technician does not remove metal shackles during MRI

An Arizona inmate had to endure her body being pulled by force when a technician allowed her to go into an MRI scan with her shackles still on

The Hindu

My father is suffering from dehydration in Rajamahendravaram prison, says Lokesh

My father is suffering from dehydration in Rajamahendravaram prison, says Lokesh. Former Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu is being denied the Class-A facilities he is entitled to in prison, and the YSRCP government is not treating him with the dignity he deserves, alleges Lokesh.

The National (Scotland)

Scots paedophile dies in prison while serving seven-year sentence

SCOTS paedophile John Barr, who raped and sexually abused two young girls for almost 10 years, has died in prison.

1 … 454 455 456 457

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

the Ministry of Justice

the National Press Club

125 stories

PEN

94 stories

The Criminal Cases Review Commission

54 stories

The Scottish Prison Service

49 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.