The Latest Breaking News from Prison

Drug-carting drone crashes into prison

Parcel delivery has soared to new heights with a drone carrying drugs to inmates worth $250,000 crashing in a Townsville jail.

AAP · Dec 23, 2022

Drone used in attempt to smuggle $250,000 worth of drugs into Townsville Correctional Centre

Patrolling officers discovered the crashed drone and a package of drugs on the prison grounds last month.

ABC News · Dec 23, 2022

UCSF apologizes for experiments done on prisoners in the '60s and '70s

The University of California, San Francisco has issued a public apology after conducting an investigation into experiments performed by two faculty members in the 1960s and '70s on prisoners, some of whom were mentally ill. In many cases, there was no record that the prisoners had provided informed consent.

Los Angeles Times · Dec 23, 2022

Adnan Syed hired by Georgetown University for its prison reform organization

BALTIMORE — Adnan Syed is now a Georgetown University employee, the private university in Washington, D.C., announced.

Tribune News Service · Dec 22, 2022

Pervert headteacher out of prison just weeks before he struck again

Sex offender was out of prison for a matter of weeks before he 'went back to his old ways'

Liverpool Echo · Dec 22, 2022

Britain's most evil offenders who will spend the rest of their lives behind bars

Damien Bendall who brutally murdered his girlfriend and three children last year has recently joined the list of the UK's most twisted criminals who have been sentenced to a whole-life order in prison.

Daily Record · Dec 22, 2022

Boris Becker reunited with 87-year-old mum after deportation following prison stint

Fallen tennis star Boris Becker was released from prison and deported back to Germany this week, after serving just eight months of his two and a half year sentence

Daily Mirror · Dec 22, 2022

Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp lifts lid on "risk" of visiting Boris Becker in prison

Boris Becker recently left prison after serving eight months of a two-and-a-half-year sentence, and Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp was deemed too big a security risk to visit the tennis icon

Daily Mirror · Dec 22, 2022

Head of 'family from hell' who tortured and murdered daughter-in-law dies in prison

Rachel, a young mum, was tortured, insulted and humiliated by the family members after she moved in with them in Stockhill, Nottingham, in November 2002.

Nottingham Post · Dec 22, 2022

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is about to make his first US court appearance as he faces decades in prison

Bankman-Fried's closest business associates had also been charged and had secretly pleaded guilty.

Fortune · Dec 22, 2022