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Lags' wives discover legal loophole to send sexy pics to prison using £10 stamp

Strict rules on jail mail prevent inmates from receiving sexually explicit material like nude pics - but partners are marking envelopes as legal correspondence and putting saucy snaps in their letters

Daily Mirror · Feb 4, 2023

BBC Happy Valley series 3: Everything that’s happened so far ahead of Sunday’s finale

There are still a lot of questions that need answering in the final of BBC drama, Happy Valley

Wales Online · Feb 4, 2023

New £250million jail given 'five-star TripAdvisor rating' by notorious inmate

Paedophile Michael Thurman wrote of HMP Five Wells: 'At last I am in a prison where, as a form of respect, the guards use our Christian names and told us theirs.'

Daily Mirror · Feb 4, 2023

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Drunk easyJet passenger and smirking drug dealer among criminals locked up in Greater Manchester in January

Perverts, violent thugs and rapists were among those caged in our region

Manchester Evening News · Feb 4, 2023

Britain's biggest prison 'set to be built near Jamie Oliver's £6 million Essex mansion'

Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver faces having two 'mega jails' built near his picturesque home in Essex - and locals are up in arms about it

Daily Mirror · Feb 4, 2023

Fury of female prison officers ordered to strip search dangerous trans convict

The transfer of Tiffany Scott - formerly known as Andrew Burns - from HMP Low Moss, near Glasgow, to a women’s prison was blocked after plans by Scottish Prison Service became known

Daily Mirror · Feb 4, 2023

Killer grins in dock as he’s found guilty of stabbing man to death in street

Benjamin Bibby and Andrew Wilcock will be sentenced to life in prison

Manchester Evening News · Feb 4, 2023

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Two transgender prisoners born as men serving sentences for sex offences in Irish women's prison

The Irish Prison Service is currently drafting a policy for the management of transgender prisoners

Irish Mirror · Feb 4, 2023

From bus driver to Russian soldier: The journey of an imprisoned Ivorian recruited by Wagner Group

A video posted in early January 2023 showed the leader of the Russian paramilitary group Wagner with a mercenary who was described as Ivorian. By analysing posts shared on social networks and talking to people who knew him at different times in his life, the FRANCE 24 Observers team managed…

France 24 · Feb 4, 2023

Hunger strikers vow to carry on

Two young men detained on royal defamation charges have been granted bail, but activists Tantawan Tuatulanon and Orawan Phuphong have vowed to continue their hunger strike until every political prisoner is released.

Bangkok Post · Feb 4, 2023

Advocates say 22 Texas inmates still on hunger strike but state disputes figure

Solitary confinement inmates protest against brutal form of incarceration but state says it’s only aware of six striking men

The Guardian - US · Feb 4, 2023

Female prison guards ordered to strip search dangerous trans Scots convict Tiffany Scott

Staff at Low Moss male prison claim their human rights went "out the window".

Daily Record · Feb 4, 2023

Mexican actor gets 5 years for fatal punch during road rage confrontation in Miami

MIAMI — Pablo Lyle, the Mexican telenovela star who fatally punched a man during a 2019 road-rage confrontation, was sentenced to five years in state prison on Friday.

Miami Herald · Feb 4, 2023

Mexican actor Pablo Lyle gets prison for road rage death

Mexican actor Pablo Lyle has been sentenced to five years in prison for involuntary manslaughter after fatally punching a man during a road rage confrontation in Miami in 2019

The Independent UK · Feb 3, 2023

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Daily Mirror · Feb 3, 2023

Man living next to Morrisons fears new CCTV cameras peering into bedroom and bathroom

Residents likened the Morrisons CCTV cameras to a prison camp peering into their homes, in Kent, but the supermarket insists they were installed to monitor the car park

The Independent UK · Feb 3, 2023

El Salvador bets safety on incarceration; unveils new prison

When El Salvador began making mass arrests of people with suspected gang affiliations last year, President Nayib Bukele ordered the construction of what would be the largest prison in Latin America

Los Angeles Times · Feb 3, 2023

Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi released from prison after declaring hunger strike

Acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi was released from prison in Tehran on Friday.

The National (Scotland) · Feb 3, 2023

Question Time's Fiona Bruce in unfounded claim about Scottish trans prisoner

THE BBC is facing questions after Fiona Bruce wrongly claimed that “a trans woman with a history of extreme violence” had been placed in a…

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Reason · Feb 3, 2023

New Data Show Prison Staff Are Rarely Held Accountable for Sexual Misconduct

Prison staff were fired in less than half of substantiated incidents of sexual misconduct between 2016 and 2018, and only faced legal consequences in 6 percent of cases.

The Conversation · Feb 3, 2023

Isla Bryson: Scotland's transgender prisoner policy was assessed as not affecting women

The decision to place double rapist Isla Bryson in the segregation unit at Scotland’s Cornton Vale women’s prison, ahead of sentencing, has sparked a political crisis that looks unlikely to abate soon.

Evening Standard · Feb 3, 2023

Coronation Street star Adam Little confirms soap exit amid Ofcom complaints

Coronation Street actor Adam Little has confirmed his departure from the ITV soap after his character Blake Myers was sent to prison in Monday night’s episode.

Asharq Al-Awsat · Feb 3, 2023

Iranian Director Freed on Bail after Going on Hunger Strike

Acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi was released on bail Friday, two days after going on hunger strike to protest his imprisonment last summer, his supporters said. Panahi was arrested last July and later ordered to serve six years on charges of propagandizing against the government, a sentence dating back to…

WEKU · Feb 3, 2023

A Guantánamo inmate was released to Belize after suing for wrongful imprisonment

A 42-year-old Pakistani man who spent nearly half his life in U.S. custody has been released from Guantánamo and resettled in Belize after suing the Biden administration for unlawful imprisonment.

The Independent UK · Feb 3, 2023

Gary Glitter victim says prison release ‘not the justice she was promised’

The paedophile glam rock singer was released from HMP The Verne on Friday.

The Times of India · Feb 3, 2023

CBI questions Andhra Pradesh CM's OSD and domestic help in YS Viveka murder case

TIRUPATI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) sleuths questioned Andhra Pradesh chief minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy's OSD Krishna Mohan Reddy and his domestic helper Naveen in connection with the YS Vivekananda Reddy murder case at the central prison guesthouse at Kadapa on Friday.

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