The Latest Breaking News from Prison

Humza Yousaf urges PM to act over case of blogger jailed in India

Jagtar Singh Johal from Dumbarton has been imprisoned for more than 2,000 days in India.

The Independent UK · Jun 17, 2023

Tragic final moments of young man who jumped from eighth floor building after mum's death

Concerns have been raised about Robert Mulvey's time in prison

Leeds Live · Jun 17, 2023

Heather Mack pleads guilty in Chicago murder conspiracy case stemming from mother’s 2014 slaying in Bali

CHICAGO — Heather Mack has already spent nearly every day behind bars since her mother’s bludgeoned body was found stuffed in a suitcase in the Bali resort where they’d been vacationing nine years ago, sparking international headlines and leading police on a trail that began in suburban Chicago.

Chicago Tribune · Jun 16, 2023

Man lived for weeks with dead friend's decaying body in his bedroom

Jamie Russell was slapped with a prison sentence after he failed to notify anyone that the corpse of his friend Matthew Scott, 42, was rotting away on a mattress in his bedroom in Swansea

Daily Mirror · Jun 16, 2023

Police Scotland say drug baron on run from prison 'may be in Edinburgh area'

Sean 'Lugs' McGovern was reported missing at around 10pm on Sunday, June 11, after failing to return to HMP Castle Huntly, near Dundee.

Edinburgh Live · Jun 16, 2023

Tangled ethical issues in a tragic abortion case

Letters: Readers debate whether a mother who had an abortion beyond the legal limit of 24 weeks should have been sent to prison

The Guardian - UK · Jun 16, 2023

An associate of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny is sentenced to prison for extremism

Lilia Chanysheva was sentenced to 7 1/2 years in prison in the latest in a series of lengthy prison terms handed down to Kremlin political opponents. Women are increasingly singled out for repression.

WEKU · Jun 16, 2023

Double killer Stephen Penrose gets another jail sentence for threat to burn down prison officer's home

Evil Penrose, 40, is currently serving a life sentence for murder. He also has a prior conviction for manslaughter, three convictions for assaults on prison officers and one for a threat to an officer

Irish Mirror · Jun 16, 2023

Heather Mack’s family reacts to ‘mastermind’ killer’s guilty plea for mother’s 2014 murder in Bali

On 12 August 2014, Mack and her then-boyfriend Tommy Schaefer bludgeoned Sheila von Wiese-Mack to death with the metal handle of a fruit stand and shoved her body in a suitcase at the luxury 5-star St. Regis resort in Bali

The Independent UK · Jun 16, 2023

Liverpool prison thriller given major funding boost ahead of second series

The series written by Jimmy McGovern is shooting across the region now

Liverpool Echo · Jun 16, 2023