The Latest Breaking News from Prison

Edinburgh sex offender requests transfer to women's prison before release

Albert Caballero, 50, is requesting to be known as a woman which has stunned his guards at HMP Edinburgh. It is understood that he has asked for lipstick and eye make-up.

Edinburgh Live · Jan 21, 2023

Hunger-striking activists in hospital

Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR) has renewed its call for an end to arbitrary detention and judicial harassment of political activists, as a prison hunger strike by two of those activists enters its fourth day.

Bangkok Post · Jan 21, 2023

Trudy Rubin: Putin must be prevented from enabling the prison death of ill opposition leader Alexei Navalny

Western allies are finally realizing the Ukraine war won't end until Vladimir Putin's dreams of conquest are decisively defeated on the battlefield.

The Philadelphia Inquirer · Jan 21, 2023

Murderer Michael O'Brien says time in prison has been 'horrific'

He says he has had letters from Colin Gunn

Nottingham Post · Jan 21, 2023

US to designate Wagner mercenary force a crime organisation

The Wagner Group has an estimated 50,000 fighters in Ukraine, 80 percent of them drawn from Russian prisons.

Al Jazeera · Jan 21, 2023

Disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes tried to ‘flee’ US after conviction, prosecutors claim

Government says Holmes should immediatly start 11 year prison sentence for defrauding investors

The Independent UK · Jan 20, 2023

How father of Sarah Lawrence student got sentenced to 60 years in prison for exploiting daughter’s friends

Lawrence Ray was convicted in 2022 of racketeering conspiracy, extortion, sex trafficking, forced labor, and tax evasion

The Independent UK · Jan 20, 2023

Key question at Alec Baldwin’s criminal trial: Is he to blame for Halyna Hutchins’ death?

The criminal case prosecutors are filing against Alec Baldwin will turn on the same question that has dogged the actor since the day he shot cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the New Mexico set of the film “Rust”: Is he responsible for her death?

Los Angeles Times · Jan 20, 2023

Alec Baldwin Shouldn't Spend 5 Years in Prison for an Accident

The actor is a polarizing figure. That shouldn't matter when evaluating the criminal case against him.

Reason · Jan 20, 2023

‘El Chapo’ aide pleads guilty to drug charges in Chicago

Felipe Cabrera Sarabia, known as “The Engineer,” told a judge he had “always made a living as a cattle rancher.” Now he faces up to life in prison.

Chicago Sun-Times · Jan 20, 2023