The Latest Breaking News from Prison

Ex-miner David Hunter visits wife’s grave for first time the day after Cyprus prison release

Ex miner David Hunter claimed his terminally ill wife had begged him to end her life

Evening Standard · Aug 1, 2023

Ex-miner visits wife’s grave for first time the day after Cyprus prison release

David Hunter had been unable to visit the grave as he was arrested on suspicion of murder after her death in December 2021.

The Independent UK · Aug 1, 2023

Aung San Suu Kyi has some of her prison sentences reduced by Myanmar's military-led government

Myanmar's military-led government has reduced the prison sentences of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi in a clemency connected to a religious ceremony

The Independent UK · Aug 1, 2023

Prisoner describes guards fainting and 129 degree temps during brutal Texas heatwave

Almost three-quarters of state’s prisons don’t have widespread AC

The Independent UK · Jul 31, 2023

British husband who killed dying wife shares tearful call with daughter after prison release

David Hunter, 76, was jailed for the manslaughter of his seriously ill wife

Evening Standard · Jul 31, 2023

Jury poised to deliberate death penalty or life sentence for gunman in Pittsburgh synagogue massacre

A jury is set to deliberate whether to impose the death penalty or a sentence of life in prison without parole on a truck driver who fatally shot 11 worshippers at a synagogue in the heart of Pittsburgh’s Jewish community

The Independent UK · Jul 31, 2023

David Hunter shared tearful call with daughter after prison release

Hunter was jailed for two years for the manslaughter of his seriously ill wife but was released from prison in Cyprus having already served 19 months.

The Independent UK · Jul 31, 2023

Lori Vallow Daybell is sentenced to multiple life terms for killing her children

A judge in Idaho sentenced Vallow Daybell, 50, to multiple terms of life in prison without parole, to be served consecutively, for the murder of two of her children.

WEKU · Jul 31, 2023

Julian Assange supporters in Australian parliament urge US to get him out of maximum security prison

Supporters Julian Hill, Andrew Wilkie and Bridget Archer respond after US secretary of state Antony Blinken claims WikiLeaks founder ‘risked very serious harm’ to national security

The Guardian - AU · Jul 31, 2023

Living costs for wrongfully convicted prisoners unfair, Sunak says

It comes amid concerns that Andrew Malkinson, who spent 17 years in prison for a rape he did not commit, faces deductions from any compensation.

The Independent UK · Jul 31, 2023