The Latest Breaking News from Prison

Russian proxy court in east Ukraine convicts ex-OSCE staff on treason charges

A Russian proxy court in eastern Ukraine on Monday sentenced two former Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) staff to 13 years in prison on treason charges that the OSCE called "inhumane and repugnant".

Reuters · Sep 19, 2022

Notorious killer pursues parole for second time after 23 years in prison

Craig Belcher brutally killed 22 year old, Kirsty Carver with a hammer at a petrol station in 1998.

Daily Record · Sep 19, 2022

Prisoner from Greenock jail escapes while at hospital

The prisoner was attending for treatment at accident and emergency.

The National (Scotland) · Sep 19, 2022

Taliban release American Mark Frerichs in prisoner swap

Frerichs is the last American known to be held hostage in Afghanistan

Axios · Sep 19, 2022

Locked Up: The prison labor that built business empires

In a joint investigation, reporters from the Associated Press and Reveal at the Center for Investigative Reporting spent months unearthing the history of convict leasing that built business empires

The Independent UK · Sep 19, 2022

Washington Steps Up Efforts to Close Guantanamo

US President Joe Biden’s administration is revamping its efforts to close the Guantanamo Bay prison by appointing a senior diplomat to oversee detainee transfers, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. The new special representative, Tina Kaidanow, a State Department official, has been chosen to review the case files of…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Sep 19, 2022

Former NY women’s prison detainees pursue lawsuit over sex assault and abuse by guards at closed Manhattan lockup

Like other state prisoners from New York City, A.Q. wanted to be closer to home — so much so she lobbied the state correction commissioner to finish her sentence at a Manhattan women’s prison.

Tribune News Service · Sep 19, 2022

Michelle Foster's killer hospitalised for homicidal ideation day after release from jail, inquest hears

A man who killed an Adelaide woman in a random attack at a suburban shopping centre was hospitalised a day after his release from prison because he was experiencing homicidal ideation, a coronial inquest has heard.

ABC News · Sep 19, 2022

'Isolation, brutality' at WA youth prison

The disability royal commission has heard harrowing evidence about historical conditions inside the Banksia Hill juvenile detention centre in Perth.

AAP · Sep 19, 2022

California 'chameleon' awaits 2016 kidnapping hoax sentence

Federal prosecutors say a Northern California woman should be sentenced to eight months in prison for carefully faking her own kidnapping

The Independent UK · Sep 19, 2022