The Latest Breaking News from Prison

Court rules family's appeal can advance in 'Serial' case

An appeal can move forward of the court proceedings that freed Adnan Syed from prison filed by the family of the murder victim in the case chronicled in the true-crime podcast “Serial.”

The Independent UK · Nov 4, 2022

Gavin Newsom grants posthumous pardon to California abortion provider

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Recognizing that California hasn’t always been the bastion for reproductive freedom that it is today, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday granted a posthumous pardon to a woman who went to prison for providing then-illegal abortions in the 1930s and 40s.

Tribune News Service · Nov 4, 2022

Disgusting Newcastle drug dealers jailed after dogs left to starve in locked room with mountain of faeces

The RSPCA rescued three neglected canines from squalor but two had to be put to sleep

Chronicle Live · Nov 4, 2022

Canadian Supreme Court sides against First Nations woman in sentencing case

A split Canadian Supreme Court on Friday ruled limits on conditional sentences are constitutional, a setback for advocates of indigenous rights who argued the provisions discriminate against indigenous people, who are overrepresented in the country's prisons.

Reuters · Nov 4, 2022

Family of murdered Irish boxer Kevin Sheehy protesting killer's move to UK prison outside the Dáil

The next court hearing date of the transfer application is next Thursday

Irish Mirror · Nov 4, 2022

Is Sally McNeil from Netflix Killer Sally still in prison?

Netflix’s gripping new true crime series details bodybuilding’s most notorious crime.

Manchester Evening News · Nov 4, 2022

Woman tried to smuggle phone and drugs into prison in packet of Maltesers hidden in her bra

Samantha Jewell tried to enter HMP Shotts with a Maltesers bag with a mobile and drugs stashed in her bra. The 32-year-old was caught by guards trying to enter the notorious prison.

Glasgow Live · Nov 4, 2022

American given 4-week jail term for slapping crew during plane bomb hoax

An American whose bomb hoax on a commercial flight prompted Singapore to scramble fighter jets was sentenced to four weeks in prison on Friday, after a court found him guilty of causing hurt by slapping a cabin crew member.

Reuters · Nov 4, 2022

Brit stuck in Egyptian prison goes on full hunger strike and will die in weeks

Egypt has still not granted the UK consular access to Alaa Abdel Fattah despite British and Egyptian officials working closely together on planning for the climate summit

Daily Mirror · Nov 4, 2022

Salah Abdeslam: Terrorist involved in deadly ISIS attacks on Paris in 2015 gets married in prison

Abdeslam, 33, took part in a ceremony by phone from his high-security cell

Evening Standard · Nov 4, 2022