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The Latest Breaking News from Prison

Prospect of British-Egyptian writer’s death in jail ‘terrifying’, says Crown star

Alaa Abd El-Fattah has been on hunger strike in prison, eating only 100 daily calories for the past 200 days.

The Independent UK

Reentering society after decades in prison can be difficult. These programs attempt to help

BALTIMORE -- The week after being released from prison, Bakari Atiba hopped on a bus to go see his home detention case manager without any idea of how to navigate public transportation.

Tribune News Service

Just Stop Oil protesters on M25 deserve ‘Christmas in prison’, says Grant Shapps

‘I hope justice is served up to these people’, says business secretary

The Independent UK

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Egypt has days to save jailed Brit citizen's life as world leaders decamp to COP27

Rishi Sunak said he would raise Alaa Abdel Fattah's imprisonment with the Egyptian government and reply again by the end of COP27, but human rights organisations and his family say it will be too late then

Daily Mirror

Philippine prisons chief charged in journalist's killing

Philippine authorities have filed murder complaints against the country’s top prisons official and an aide who they accused of masterminding the killing of a radio commentator

The Independent UK

Egypt has days to save jailed activist Alaa Abdel Fattah's life, Amnesty chief warns

Amnesty International's head on Sunday warned that the proceedings of COP27 in Egypt could be stained by the death of one of the country's leading rights activists from a hunger and water strike in prison if Egyptian authorities do not release him within days.

France 24

Concern people in Nottingham are 'turning to crime to get shelter in prison' amid cost of living crisis

The number of inmates is anticipated to grow over winter

Nottingham Post

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NSW approved UN jail visit before backflip

NSW reneged on an agreement to allow UN inspectors into its prisons the day the delegation landed in Australia, a federal official has told senators.

AAP

Yatala prisoners protest move to higher security division by sparking blaze in cell

Two Adelaide prisoners who started a fire in their cell because they were unhappy about being moved to a higher security division, may have tampered with a power point to spark the blaze, the Department of Corrections says.

ABC News

Dog walker's killer sentenced to life in prison, no parole

A man convicted of using an AK-47 to kill a woman and wound her boyfriend as they walked their dog in Denver has been sentenced to life in prison

The Independent UK

Motorist who mowed down pedestrian outside Tesco spared prison due to being single mum

Aimee Palmer ploughed her Ford Fiesta into complete stranger Paramjit Malhi following a brief row with him whilst leaving the superstore in Birmingham

Daily Mirror

I was in prison and saw how power can corrupt officers

Letters: Ruth Wyner recalls the inhumanity of incarceration, while John Coffin and GD Stewart and discuss the need for accountability and justice

The Guardian - UK

Amnesty: Egypt has days to save jailed activist’s life - OLD

The head of Amnesty International says that the proceedings of COP27 will be stained by the death of Egypt's leading rights activist on a hunger and water strike in prison if Egyptian authorities do not release him within days

The Independent UK

Eric Allison obituary

Career criminal who went on to become the Guardian’s prisons correspondent and a campaigner for penal reform

The Guardian - UK

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Former Durham prisoner turned writer brings his remarkable story to the stage with new play

Raising the bar - success story Ric Renton will star in November premiere at Live Theatre of his play One Off which recounts his experiences in HMP Durham

The Independent UK

Foreign Office ‘setting up PM to fail’ at Cop27 over writer jailed in Egypt

Sanaa Seif, the sister of political prisoner Alaa Abd El-Fattah, has spoken about a letter Rishi Sunak sent to their family.

Inverse

Star Wars theory finally answers 'Andor's most bizarre mystery

'Andor's Panopticon-like prison show just how heartless the Empire really is.

Irish Mirror

'Very health conscious' Gerry Hutch brings his own protein bars to court every day

"You wouldn’t know it to look at him but he is very health conscious and likes to look after himself"

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The Independent UK

Pope in Bahrain: Treatment of prisoners a measure of society

Pope Francis is wrapping up the first-ever papal trip to Bahrain by encouraging priests and nuns to keep ministering to the Gulf kingdom’s tiny Catholic flock

ABC News

Yatala Labour Prison incident sees riot police called in with at least five people treated for injuries

SA Ambulance Service says it has taken five people to hospital with non-life threatening injuries after an incident at Adelaide's Yatala Labour Prison.

Daily Mirror

Rhys Jones's killer is moved to 'Monster Mansion' prison

Sean Mercer is now locked up at HMP Wakefield with some of Britain’s worst cons, including Sarah Payne’s murderer Roy Whiting

Tribune News Service

The ‘exception’: 5 states to vote on vestige of slavery

The 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, with one exception: punishing people convicted of crimes.

The Independent UK

Former officer: Alabama 'not in control' of state prisons

A former corrections officer said Alabama is no longer in control of its prisons and said he believes federal officials should intervene in the system

The Guardian - UK

I helped put Eric Allison behind bars. Then we met again as hacks

My evidence put the purveyor of false passports in jail. Years later, I became his editor

Daily Mirror

Securitas raider returns just £1 of record £53million haul but still wins open jail move

Lea Rusha took part in the infamous 2006 Securitas depot robbery and has served his minimum sentence of 15 years with the Parole Board recommending a move to an open prison

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