Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from Prison

Nearly 50,000 People Were Held in Solitary Confinement in the U.S. Last Year, Study Finds

More than 900 had been held in isolation for more than a decade.

Reason

ICE detainees say they were forced into labor in Georgia, file lawsuit

ATLANTA — A lawsuit filed against Georgia’s largest immigrant jail charges the private prison company that runs it broke federal anti-slavery laws by forcing detainees to work against their will.

Tribune News Service

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange files latest appeal in bid to stop extradition to United States

The appeal argues Assange is being prosecuted and punished for his political opinions and for protected speech, and that the extradition request violates the US-UK Extradition Treaty and international law

ABC News

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Pa. man who beat officer with a Trump flag at Jan. 6 riot sentenced to nearly 4 years

PHILADELPHIA — A Montgomery County man who beat a Washington, D.C., police officer with a Trump flag during the Capitol riot was sentenced to nearly four years in federal prison Friday — one of the harshest punishments imposed so far for a person accused in the Jan. 6 attack.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Inside a 'tale of greed' in San Francisco: Bribery scandal leads to 7-year prison sentence

Federal prosecutors called it "a tale of greed as old as time" — a powerful San Francisco official at the heart of a web of kickbacks, bribery and fraud that stretched across more than a decade.

Los Angeles Times

'Missed opportunities' at HMP Nottingham after inmate killed by cellmate

"Prison staff consistently failed to execute their responsibilities"

Nottingham Post

Wife of murdered Perth aid worker David Haines says her pain goes on as Isis killer is jailed

El Shafee Elsheikh was sentenced on Friday in the US for his role in the hostage-taking outrage after being convicted by a jury in April this year

Daily Record

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Khalil Awawdeh: Palestinian who was on a 172-day hunger strike

Palestinian prisoner Khalil Awawdeh was on a hunger strike demanding Israel end his continued detention without charge.

Al Jazeera

Garda anger as thug who beat and left officer for dead walks free after 45 days

Gavin Quinn was released from prison on Wednesday afternoon – and celebrated his freedom with members of his family

Dublin Live

Former Ravensthorpe CEO Gavin Pollock jailed for using ratepayers' money to pay for sex

Former Ravensthorpe Shire chief executive Gavin Pollock, who used tens of thousands of ratepayers' dollars for sexual services, has been sentenced to two years in prison.

ABC News

Gangster facing prison disciplinary charges after allegedly becoming violent after cell booze-up

Scott Capper, a right hand man of Dublin mob boss Mr Flashy before he was jailed last year, is alleged to have been aggressive when warders confronted him over his suspected whiskey and beer binge in Mountjoy

Dublin Live

Philippines inmates protest on prison roof over food, warden

About 100 inmates in an overcrowded jail have climbed atop the roof of a prison building in the central Philippines and noisily protested with clenched fist and placards, saying they are not being fed well and demanding the removal of the jail warden

The Independent UK

Ex-San Francisco official sentenced to 7 years in prison

San Francisco’s former public works director was sentenced Thursday to seven years in prison for steering public contracts and taking pricey gifts in a corruption case that ensnared several City Hall officials and insiders

The Independent UK

Two plead guilty in Biden diary plot

Conspirators in bungled plot sold presidential daughter's diary for $40,000, face up to five years in prison

Salon

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Independent UK

Steven Hoffenberg: Who is the former Epstein associate and New York Post owner?

Once one of ‘brashest figures on New York business scene’, Steven Hoffenberg served 18 years in prison before trying to help Epstein’s victims

The Guardian - UK

Dominic Raab made Parole Board’s ‘difficult job next to impossible’

Justice secretary criticised by senior officials after board is ‘last to hear’ about important policy changes

ABC News

Rockhampton woman calls for new laws after death in custody at same prison where brother died by suicide

Devastated at news of another death in custody this month in the same prison where her brother took his own life, Pam White-Row Row launches a campaign to stop more families from suffering.

The Independent UK

California may allow more ill, dying inmates to leave prison

California would allow more ill and dying inmates to be released from state prisons under legislation that cleared the state Senate and heads to the Assembly for final approval

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Independent UK

Chauvin moved to Arizona federal pen in George Floyd killing

Derek Chauvin has been moved from a Minnesota state prison where he was often held in solitary confinement to a medium-security federal prison in Arizona, where the former police officer convicted in George Floyd’s killing may be held under less restrictive conditions

The Independent UK

Former Epstein mentor and New York Post owner Steven Hoffenberg found dead

The 77 year old spent 18 years in prison after being convicted of running a $500m Ponzi scheme

ABC News

Speech program helps prisoners find jobs, reconnect with family on release

An Australia-first speech pathology course, designed to teach prisoners language and literacy skills, is helping people find employment, reconnect with family and reduce their chances of reoffending.

The Independent UK

A wave of anti-abortion ‘trigger’ laws are now in effect. More are coming

Two months after the Supreme Court struck down Roe v Wade, abortion is outlawed in 12 states and more than 20 million women have lost access to care, Alex Woodward reports

Benzinga

Weed In Russia: Cannabis Legal Status Guide

This article was originally published on 2Fast4Buds and appears here with permission.

Reuters

U.S. report identifies 21 'filtration' locations run by Russia for processing Ukrainians

Russia and its proxy forces in Ukraine are operating 21 locations used to detain, interrogate and process prisoners of war and civilians, according to a new report by Yale University researchers backed by the U.S. State Department as part of efforts to hold Moscow accountable.

Salon

Texas abortion providers face prison

Texas now has three significant bans on the books, setting up a potential legal minefield

1 … 833 834 835 836

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Russian Defence Ministry

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.