The Latest Breaking News from Prison

Labour MP describes Bibby Stockholm barge as a ‘recipe for disaster’

Lloyd Russell-Moyle said he was concerned after hearing that asylum seekers are being kept in ‘prison-like’ conditions.

The Independent UK · Oct 30, 2023

4 former Hong Kong student leaders jailed over their praise of a knife attack on a police officer

Four former student leaders from the University of Hong Kong have been sentenced to two years in prison for inciting people to wound others through their praise of a man who stabbed a police officer before killing himself in 2021

The Independent UK · Oct 30, 2023

Bangladesh top court commutes death sentences of 7 militants to life in prison for 2016 cafe attack

Bangladesh’s High Court has commuted the death sentences of seven Islamic militants to life in prison for their role in a 2016 attack on a cafe in the capital, Dhaka, that killed 20 people, mostly foreigners

The Independent UK · Oct 30, 2023

Time series two review – Jodie Whittaker shines a light on the idiocy of our legal system

The ex-Doctor puts in a brilliant performance alongside Bella Ramsey, as a jailed mum who isn’t allowed enough phone calls to get her kids looked after. It’s a powerful message

The Guardian - UK · Oct 29, 2023

Time season 2 review: Bella Ramsey steals the show as a hard-bitten addict

The return of Jimmy McGovern’s bleak saga is set in a women’s prison, where Ramsey is joined by Jodie Whittaker and Tamara Lawrance

The Independent UK · Oct 29, 2023

Bangladesh police arrest a key opposition leader amid growing national tension

Authorities in Bangladesh arrested a key opposition figure from the Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Sunday and sent him to prison after hours of detention. The party had called for a nationwide strike after violent clashes with security forces a day earlier.

France 24 · Oct 29, 2023

Two men on the run after escaping prison

Authorities are searching for two men who absconded from a correctional centre in Townsville on Sunday.

AAP · Oct 29, 2023

'We don't have the budget to feed all the inmates': A rise in deaths in DR Congo prisons

Overcrowding, lack of food, disease ... In September alone, 14 inmates died in the main prison in Goma, the capital of North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Images of inmates crammed into tents and photos of bodies being removed leaked onto social networks in mid-October. Our Observers told…

France 24 · Oct 29, 2023

‘This is a prison’: men tell of distressing conditions on Bibby Stockholm

Asylum seekers share fears about Dorset barge becoming even more crowded, saying they already ‘despair and wish for death’

The Guardian - UK · Oct 29, 2023

Convict prisoner escapes from fuel station in Coimbatore

COIMBATORE: A convict prisoner, who was working at the fuel station run by the Prisons Department on Bharathiyar Road in Coimbatore city, managed to escape around 5.30 am. The city police have formed two teams to trace him.

The Times of India · Oct 29, 2023