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The origins of Glasgow's Barlinnie Prison and where the name comes from

With HMP Barlinnie set to close for good within the next couple of years, we look back on the origins of Glasgow's 'Big Hoose' and how it got its name.

Glasgow Live

Drug drone zooms across prison yard as police sit watching

A gang flew drugs and phones into prison via drones for months

Liverpool Echo

Woman rings helpline warning 'I am going to my sister's house to kill her, I have been to prison and will go again'

Caitlin Evans' sister told the court she feared her sibling would carry out the threat

Wales Online

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Dangerous gangsters FLEW drugs and phones into prison for months on end in major £1.7m racket

Members of the group responsible have been jailed

Manchester Evening News

Drone gang flew £1.7m of drugs into jail for Liverpool prisoners to sell

Charlie Swann and Aaron Dodd, inmates at HMP Risley, were responsible for collecting the drone packages and then selling the items inside the prison

Liverpool Echo

'No remorse' from Lanarkshire killer as family blast crime podcast after prison release

Convicted murderer Sean Toal served 15 years behind bars for stabbing 20-year-old Paul Gerard McGilvray to death in the street in Coatbridge in 2004. He has always maintained his innocence.

Glasgow Live

California tried and failed to ban for-profit ICE detention centers. What does that mean for other states?

WASHINGTON, D.C. — California's landmark ban on private prisons and immigrant detention facilities saw its fate sealed when a federal court officially repealed the 2020 law.

Los Angeles Times

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Investment scammer sentenced to 1,155 years

The Criminal Court on Monday sentenced former businessman Prasit Jeowkok, 52, to a total of 1,155 years in prison for an investment scam and ordered he make payment of one billion baht in compensation to his victims.

Bangkok Post

Agony as Walker dad-to-be's killer could be released from prison as parole hearing looms

Murderer Philip Craggs, who stabbed young dad-to-be Paul Gilbert to death in 2008, was jailed for life with a minimum of 15-and-a-half years

Chronicle Live

Predatory police officer, teen killers and a sick couple amongst those jailed in Greater Manchester in June

The M.E.N. has dedicated court reporters on hand to cover the most serious cases day-in-day-out

Manchester Evening News

Ex-offenders could help cut UK labour shortages, says report

Good Jobs Project from ReGenerate aims to help ex-prisoners, neurodivergent people, asylum seekers and other groups into work

The Guardian - UK

Regency Hotel getaway driver Jason Bonney insists he's innocent to fellow inmates

He is serving an eight-and-a-half year sentence in Wheatfield Prison

Dublin Live

Inmate charged with hate crime against transgender double rapist Isla Bryson

Rapist Isla Bryson has claimed a breach of human rights after a fellow inmate was charged with a hate crime

Daily Mirror

Man charged after rapist Isla Bryson alleges ‘abuse’ in prison

A man has been charged in connection with alleged threatening and abusive behaviour after double rapist Isla Bryson claimed to have suffered…

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The Independent UK

Man charged after trans rapist Isla Bryson alleges ‘abuse’ in prison

Police Scotland said a 24-year-old has been charged after an allegation of a hate crime was made at HMP Edinburgh.

Newcastle Herald

Newcastle's penal settlement and its roll call of rogues

Coal River was certainly full of 'interesting' lads.

Daily Record

Rules for trans prisoners must be clear before criminals take advantage of grey area

Sunday Mail Opinion says this problem is bigger than Isla Bryson and, unfortunately for Humza Yousaf, it is not going away.

Daily Record

Trans rapist Isla Bryson 'victim of hate crimes in jail' and complains of being treated like 'monster'

The notorious inmate, who only transitioned while on bail, says they have become a victim of transphobic attacks in prison.

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Seattle man sentenced for 'horrific' murder, sexual violation of Yakama woman

SEATTLE — King County Superior Court Judge Michael Ryan on Friday stopped a senior deputy prosecutor from reciting the facts of Charles Becker's crimes out loud, saying that everyone in his courtroom knew the horrific details and Ryan did not want to see anyone retraumatized in the telling.

Daily Mirror

Where Free Willy cast are now – prison stint, Bond role and tragic fate of killer whale

Free Willy has long been a beloved blockbuster movie, with it remaining a staple in childhoods for decades - but where are the cast now? Scroll on as Mirror US dives in...

Miami Herald

Ex-prison nurse gets 6 years for smuggling drug-soaked papers into Miami detention center

A former prison nurse has been sentenced to six years after pleading guilty to smuggling more than 100 drug-soaked papers into a Miami detention center for federal inmates, who in turn paid him thousands of dollars and let him use a Lamborghini and Rolls-Royce for free.

The Canberra Times

Easier condoms and lube, but prison's boredom busting hopes hit

There will be no funds for an multi-purpose industry building at AMC.

Al Jazeera

Palestinian minister of prisoner affairs dies in car crash

Qadri Abu Baker, chairman of the PLO’s Detainees and Ex-Detainees Commission, was killed in a traffic accident.

Chicago Sun-Times

Winnetka man faces up to a year in prison for price gouging N95 masks early in pandemic

Krikor Topouzian, 62, was found guilty Thursday of buying nearly 80,000 masks in the early months of the pandemic and selling them at large markups even as friends and law enforcement warned him of the products’ “scarce” material designation during the international crisis.

The Independent UK

Tourist accused of vandalising Colosseum in Rome could face trial and up to five years in prison

If taken to trial, the suspect could be jailed for between two to five years and fined up to €15,000 (£12,850), police have warned

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