The Latest Breaking News from Prison

Baltimore rapper YGG Tay federally indicted with alleged group of Black Guerilla Family members accused of 9 killings

BALTIMORE — Baltimore Rapper YGG Tay, who already is in federal prison, is among a group of alleged members of the Black Guerilla Family gang accused of carrying out nine homicides, a recently unsealed federal indictment shows.

Tribune News Service · Dec 19, 2022

Central Park entry gate commemorates the 'Exonerated Five'

An entryway to Central Park has been dedicated to remember the injustice that imprisoned five Black and Latino teenagers after they were wrongly convicted of the 1989 rape of a white jogger

The Independent UK · Dec 19, 2022

Who’s accused of what: Jan 6 panel makes criminal referrals

The former president has been referred under four criminal statutes including defrauding the US and inciting an insurrection

The Independent UK · Dec 19, 2022

Kettering murder accused seen for first time since mum and two young kids killed in home

Saju Chelavalel, 52, was pictured as he was led to a prison van after appearing at Wellingborough Magistrates' Court on Monday charged with the murders of his wife and two children

Daily Mirror · Dec 19, 2022

R. Kelly manager gets a year in prison for theater threat

R. Kelly’s onetime manager has been sentenced to a year in federal prison for calling in a shooting threat that halted a screening of a damning documentary about the R&B star

The Independent UK · Dec 19, 2022

Report shows rise in deaths in custody

The Australian Institute of Criminology has released new data showing 106 people died in custody in 2021/22, 23 more than last year.

AAP · Dec 19, 2022

Mutulu Shakur, planner of 1981 Brink’s robbery and Tupac Shakur’s stepfather, paroled from prison for health reasons

NEW YORK — A radical group leader who planned the 1981 Brink’s robbery that left two Nyack, New York, police officers and an armored car guard dead has been released from prison after 37 years, according to a report.

Tribune News Service · Dec 19, 2022

SC county settles ACLU lawsuit over ‘debtor’s prison,’ promises improved public defense

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Lexington County, South Carolina, has reached a settlement in a lawsuit brought by several people who had been jailed in the county for a failure to pay court fines and fees, who compared their situation to a modern-day “debtor’s prison.”

Tribune News Service · Dec 19, 2022

HMP Bristol prisoner 'heard shivering on the phone' as heating fails

"It’s to the point that when they’re on the phone, I can hear them shivering. It's inhumane."

Bristol Post · Dec 19, 2022

Indigenous deaths in custody rises to 516 since the 1991 royal commission, report says

The Australian Institute of Criminology’s annual report shows 106 people died in custody between July 2021 and July 2022, with 16 of those being of Indigenous descent

The Guardian - AU · Dec 19, 2022