The Latest Breaking News from Prison

The prisoners who have married behind bars

It is currently legal to marry in the UK if you are in prison but prisoners who want to get married have to apply to the governor of the prison

The Independent UK · Mar 10, 2023

Stephen Bear on 'suicide watch' in prison and has been 'crying in his cell for days'

The former reality star was slammed behind bars a week ago and sentenced to 21 months over the revenge porn tape involving Georgia Harrison which has apparently left him a 'broken man' who is now on 24-hour watch.

Daily Record · Mar 10, 2023

Magistrates ‘disappointed’ as sentencing powers cut amid prison places crisis

Magistrates say they are “incredibly disappointed” at the government’s decision to cut back their sentencing powers in the midst of the prison places crisis.

Evening Standard · Mar 10, 2023

Beatings of women in Myanmar jail alleged

In early February, four members of an anti-junta group in the Myanmar city of Mandalay said they received a secret, one-page, handwritten note spirited out of a prison that details two days of clashes and beatings of female political prisoners.

Bangkok Post · Mar 10, 2023

15yo boy sentenced to 7 years' prison after stolen car crash in Cairns killed teen passenger

The teenager has been sentenced in the Supreme Court in Cairns after crashing a stolen car into a tree, leaving one teenager dead and a child with quadriplegia.

ABC News · Mar 10, 2023

Two Indonesian Match Officials Jailed over Deadly Football Stampede

An Indonesian court handed prison sentences to two football match officials on Thursday after finding them guilty of negligence over one of the world's deadliest stadium stampedes. The October 2022 derby match in Malang, East Java, between Arema FC and Persebaya Surabaya ended in chaos with 135 spectators killed, many…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Mar 10, 2023

2 Indonesian soccer officials found guilty in one of the deadliest stadium stampedes

The match organizer and the security chief were handed down prison sentences Thursday in connection with a 2022 stampede that killed more than 130 people following a match in East Java.

WEKU · Mar 10, 2023

Decades in jail for fatal suburban shooting spree

A man will spend up to 42 years in prison for a suburban shooting rampage which killed one man and injured many others on the NSW Central Coast.

AAP · Mar 10, 2023

Delroy Lindo, Kerry Washington play out a fascinating dynamic in warmhearted ‘UnPrisoned’

The return of her father from lockup complicates a therapist’s already anxious life in the relatively light Hulu series.

Chicago Sun-Times · Mar 10, 2023

Bradley White, 42, sentenced for fatal shooting spree at Wyong on NSW Central Coast in 2020

Bradley White, 42, has been sentenced to 42 years in prison following the shooting spree in which a Central Coast town came under attack from a "haze of bullets" in March 2020.

ABC News · Mar 10, 2023