The Latest Breaking News from Prison

Feb 26 clash in Punjab's Goindwal Sahib prison: Jail superintendent among 5 officials arrested

CHANDIGARH: After the Goindwal Sahib jail incident video went viral on Sunday in which two gangsters were murdered in a clash between members of two rival gangs on February 26, the Punjab police have arrested jail superintendent Iqbal Singh Brar and four other prison officials out of the total seven…

The Times of India · Mar 5, 2023

Indigenous woman alleges she was subject to torture and inhuman treatment in ACT prison

Julianne Williams will tell court she was forcibly strip-searched despite informing guards she couldn’t breathe and was experiencing pains in her chest

The Guardian - AU · Mar 5, 2023

Woman who caused death of pavement cyclist risks losing home as neighbours reveal she is a 'loner'

Auriol Grey, 49 was sentenced to three years in prison on Thursday for causing the death of cyclist Celia Ward, 77 after she startled her and caused her to fall into oncoming traffic.

Daily Record · Mar 5, 2023

Notorious prisoner Charles Bronson to face public parole hearing

The Parole Board review of one of the UK’s longest serving prisoners to decide whether he should remain behind bars begins on Monday.

The Independent UK · Mar 5, 2023

Daniel Duggan says he faces ‘gross injustice’ if extradited to US in speech from Sydney prison

The former US marine pilot urges his audience to ‘say no to politically charged extraditions of Australian citizens’

The Guardian - AU · Mar 4, 2023

The criminals locked up in Greater Manchester this week

A fraudster, drug dealers and gang members were among those sent to prison in our region

Manchester Evening News · Mar 4, 2023

'I witnessed my first murder aged 11 and I was stabbed and left for dead - now I fight gang culture'

Mark, from Moss Side, became a victim himself after leaving prison for armed robbery

Manchester Evening News · Mar 4, 2023

Prisons defy national salad shortage as green-fingered inmates grow their own vegetables

As salad becomes increasingly hard to find in supermarkets, green-fingered inmates at The Verne, a men's prison on Dorset's Isle of Portland, have harvested their own, including a whopping 1,300 lettuces

Daily Mirror · Mar 4, 2023

Trump drops single with J6 Prison Choir

The song, titled “Justice for All,” features Trump reciting the Pledge of Allegiance

Salon · Mar 4, 2023

Convicted double killer Alex Murdaugh 'told cousin to shoot him in the back of the head'

Murdaugh who was sentenced to life in prison today for the murder of his 52-year-old wife Maggie and their son Paul, 22, in June 2021 previously asked his relative to shoot him in the back of the head.

Daily Record · Mar 4, 2023