The Latest Breaking News from Prison

Corrie star Ellie Leach teases prison twist for Faye Windass amid ITV soap exit

Ellie Leach has teased Faye Windass could land herself in prison amid her Coronation Street exit as Craig threatens to tell the police about what happened with Ted

Daily Mirror · May 16, 2023

Mem Fox book banned in Florida, as lawmakers conflate nudity and sexuality

Failure to comply is a third-degree felony, which can carry a prison sentence of up to five years in Florida.

The New Daily · May 16, 2023

Idris Elba is directing and starring in prison break thriller

Elba will also produce Infernus

Total Film · May 16, 2023

Andrew Travis Giles sentenced to 32 years in prison after sexually assaulting three women in Kalgoorlie-Boulder

A WA man will spend at least three decades behind bars for breaking into three houses and sexually assaulting the female occupants during a rampage in Kalgoorlie-Boulder. WARNING: This article contains details that readers may find distressing.

ABC News · May 16, 2023

Germany: 5 sentenced to prison for 100-million-euro jewelry heist

A German court has convicted five men over the theft of 18th-century jewels worth more than 100 million euros from a Dresden museum in 2019

The Independent UK · May 16, 2023

‘They found hell’: innocent foreigners caught in El Salvador’s mass arrests

Rights groups say thousands of innocent people are being caught up in gang crackdown

The Guardian - US · May 16, 2023

Mountjoy governor speaks about 'traumatic' shiv attack on prison officer

A prison officer was stabbed while transporting killer Graham McEvoy back to Mountjoy Prison from a medical appointment

Dublin Live · May 16, 2023

Mountjoy governor recounts 'traumatic' shiv attack on prison officer but says incidents don't happen often

An officer was stabbed with a shiv, an improvised bladed weapon, while transporting killer Graham McEvoy

Irish Mirror · May 16, 2023

Ex-prison guard caught with illegal drugs visited inmate 20 times, pleads guilty to intimate relationship

A woman who was employed by Queensland Correction Services was found to have been in a relationship with an inmate and in possession of 195 strips of an illegal drug.

ABC News · May 16, 2023

Guess What? Mem Fox’s children's book has been banned in Florida as 'pornography' – but bathing is not a sexual act

Australian author Mem Fox’s 1988 picture book Guess What?, illustrated by Vivienne Goodman, has been banned in Duval County, Florida over allegations of “pornography”. Why? Because one illustration depicts the main character, “old witch” Daisy O'Grady, taking a bath.

The Conversation · May 16, 2023