The Latest Breaking News from Prison

Commentary: Here in San Quentin, I see why solitary confinement must end

Advocates almost succeeded this year in curbing the use of solitary confinement in California’s prisons and jails. The California Mandela Act, named after the long-imprisoned South African president, received the support it needed in August to pass the Assembly 41-16 and land on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk. He vetoed the…

Los Angeles Times · Oct 28, 2022

Porsche driver Pusey taken to court naked

Richard Pusey, who refused to attend a hearing over their use of graphic Eastern Freeway crash photos, has been carried naked from their prison cell to court.

AAP · Oct 28, 2022

Dig finds evidence of Revolutionary War prison camp location

Researchers say they have solved a decades-old riddle by finding remnants of the stockade and therefore the site of a prison camp in York, Pennsylvania, that housed British soldiers for nearly two years during the American Revolutionary War

The Independent UK · Oct 28, 2022

Federal prison worker pleads guilty to inmate sex abuse

One of five workers accused of sexually abusing inmates at a federal women’s prison in California has pleaded guilty and could face up to two years in prison

The Independent UK · Oct 27, 2022

Australian women and children returning to Sydney from Syrian detention camp, where they were held after the fall of Islamic State

The first group of Australian women and children held in Syria is returning to Sydney after spending four years languishing in a detention camp.

ABC News · Oct 27, 2022

Death row inmate cuts off his own penis after being denied suicide watch

Henry Hodges mutilated himself after a prison official allegedly denied his request to be put on suicide watch

The Independent UK · Oct 27, 2022

Sentence handed down for slaying of New Mexico girl

A man convicted of child abuse and other charges stemming from the 2016 death and dismemberment of an Albuquerque girl has been sentenced to 37 1/2 years in prison

The Independent UK · Oct 27, 2022

Attorney: Death row inmate on suicide watch severed penis

An attorney for Tennessee death row inmate Henry Hodges says he cut off his own penis in a prison cell after slitting his wrists and asking to be put on suicide watch

The Independent UK · Oct 27, 2022

‘Wendell & Wild’ review: Key and Peele voice an animated Netflix tale of demons, earthlings and ... the evils of the prison industrial complex?

Somehow, the marriage of two singular film talents has produced the least special work either has ever done.

Chicago Tribune · Oct 27, 2022

Jan 6 rioter who dragged officer Michael Fanone into mob gets over seven years in prison

A Tennessee man who dragged a police officer into a mob of rioters during the U.S. Capitol attack has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison

The Independent UK · Oct 27, 2022