The Latest Breaking News from Prison

Michigan school staffer recalls shooting with 'disbelief' as judge considers sentence

Prosecutors are making their case that a Michigan teenager should be sentenced to life in prison for killing four students at his high school in 2021

The Independent UK · Jul 28, 2023

Florida woman who stole nearly $3 million from Holocaust survivor gets over 4 years in prison

A Florida woman who drained an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor's life savings by posing as a love interest and then lived lavishly off the $2.8 million she got has been sentenced to over four years in prison

The Independent UK · Jul 28, 2023

More than a picture: how the work of documentary photographer Raphaela Rosella is defined by co-creation

Documentary photographers have traditionally aspired to tell other people’s stories. For 15 years, artist Raphaela Rosella and the women close to her have forged their own complex visual narratives, despite frequent interventions by the criminal justice system.

The Conversation · Jul 28, 2023

United Airlines pilot given suspended prison sentence after showing up for flight ‘staggering drunk’

‘His eyes were glassy, and his mouth pasty’

The Independent UK · Jul 27, 2023

The Guardian view on the freeing of Andy Malkinson: a case for reform

Editorial: This 17-year-long wrongful imprisonment scandal has lessons for all levels of the criminal justice system

The Guardian - UK · Jul 27, 2023

Worker at central prison caught smuggling phone

Security personnel caught a prison maintenance man, Bhanuprakash H.R., trying to smuggle a mobile phone into the prison. He was under the influence of alcohol and handed over to prison authorities. Police suspect he was trying to give the phone to inmates to make calls and money. The incident has…

The Hindu · Jul 27, 2023

Self-harming in women’s prisons reaches highest level on record

The figures came in the latest safety in custody statistics for England and Wales.

The Independent UK · Jul 27, 2023

Arizona mother who pleaded guilty to murder and abuse of her young son has sentencing set

An Arizona mother who pleaded guilty to murder and child abuse faces up to life in prison for the 2020 starvation death of her 6-year-old son who had been locked in a closet and denied food at their Flagstaff apartment

The Independent UK · Jul 27, 2023

Child murderer Colin Pitchfork’s ‘irrational’ prison release blocked by judge

Decision on Pitchfork, who raped and strangled to death two 15-year-olds in the 1980s, now sent back to Parole Board

The Independent UK · Jul 27, 2023

El Salvador clears way for mass trials as crackdown on gangs ramps up

Congress passes bill that could allow 900 people to be tried together if they are accused of being in the same criminal group

The Guardian - US · Jul 27, 2023