The Latest Breaking News from Prison

Death row killer spared lethal injection after he's poked with needles for hour

Alan Eugene Miller was due to be executed on September 22 but his death was scrapped after prison staff were unable to connect an IV line as he pleaded with a judge to change his execution method

Daily Mirror · Nov 30, 2022

U.S. deeply concerned about Whelan, American jailed in Russia -White House

The United States is "deeply concerned" about detained American Paul Whelan in Russia, and has not been able to get information from Moscow on his whereabouts or condition, White House national security spokesman John Kirby said on Wednesday.

Reuters · Nov 30, 2022

US ‘deeply concerned’ about Whelan, citizen detained in Russia

Family of Paul Whelan, jailed on espionage charges in Russia, says they have not heard from him in days.

Al Jazeera · Nov 30, 2022

Mandela grandson protests release of anti-apartheid leader Hani's killer

A small group of demonstrators gathered outside South Africa's parliament in Cape Town on Wednesday to protest against the release from prison of the man who killed anti-apartheid leader Chris Hani in 1993.

Reuters · Nov 30, 2022

South Africans protest pending release of Hani's killer

More than a thousand people have protested outside a prison in South Africa against the pending release of Janusz Walus, the convicted killer of anti-apartheid leader Chris Hani

The Independent UK · Nov 30, 2022

MoJ requests urgent use of 400 police cells for male prisoners

Prisons minister writes to police chiefs to establish Operation Safeguard due to lack of space in men’s prisons

The Guardian - UK · Nov 30, 2022

Offenders could be held in police cells as prisons nearly full from 'surge'

Strikes by barristers are being partly blamed

Wales Online · Nov 30, 2022

UK prisons running out of space as government asks police to use 400 cells

Justice Minister Damian Hinds told MPs he had triggered Operation Safeguard after an "acute and sudden increase in the prison population"

Daily Mirror · Nov 30, 2022

Prisoners could be held in police cells in bid to cut jail overcrowding

Justice minister Damian Hinds said the Government has asked to use 400 police cells to hold inmates after a sudden increase in the prison population.

The Independent UK · Nov 30, 2022

Freed Japan-China friendship group head says charges false

The former head of a Japan-China friendship group who recently returned to Japan from six years in a Beijing prison for what he said were false spying charges says he still hopes to see China become a global leader but with better treatment of human rights

The Independent UK · Nov 30, 2022