The Latest Breaking News from Prison

'I go inside the minds of the UK's worst sex offenders locked up in maximum security jails'

Dr Rebecca Myers, who was just 22 when she first entered a maximum security prison, opens up about the shocking moments she has has experienced giving rehab to sex offenders

Daily Mirror · Sep 4, 2022

Evil former garda scrubbing toilets in prison after being jailed for abuse

Paul Moody, 42, was jailed for three years and three months for a campaign of terror on his former partner who was ill with cancer

Dublin Live · Sep 4, 2022

Iran’s Crackdown on Filmmakers Escalates

One year after ultraconservative President Ebrahim Raisi came to power, Iranian authorities are targeting the country's cinema. The July arrests of directors Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof, both icons abroad, reflect the pressure that filmmakers and actors are facing. The Iranian film community has been asking "who will be next?"…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Sep 4, 2022

Jim Crow revived in new voting laws

Felon disenfranchisement was a key 1890 "reform" meant to drive Black voters off the rolls. Now it's back

Salon · Sep 3, 2022

Family of father executed after wrongful murder conviction given police apology after 70 years

British Somali and former seaman Mahmood Mattan was hanged at Cardiff prison on 3 September 1952 despite having numberous alibis backed by witnesses and a lack of forensic evidence

The Independent UK · Sep 3, 2022

Lag who befriended Charles Bronson reveals truth about UK's 'most notorious prisoner'

Stephen Gillen was locked up in one of the highest security prisons in the UK where he met infamous lag Charles Bronson, reputed to be Britain's most violent prisoner

Daily Mirror · Sep 3, 2022

Dublin killer gets married after being released from 18 year prison stretch

He was released after 18 years for the brutal murder of Joe Cummins who he shot dead in an act of revenge outside The Dragon Inn pub in Tallaght, South Co Dublin in 2001

Dublin Live · Sep 3, 2022

The unsolved murder of the pawnbroker slashed with a razor that saw an innocent man hanged

Mahmood Mattan was executed 70 years a go for a crime he did not commit. The real killer has never been caught and the crime remains unsolved

Wales Online · Sep 3, 2022

Steve Bannon’s request for new trial rejected by federal judge meaning he will be sentenced

Trump’s former adviser faces minimum prison time of 30 days when he is sentenced

The Independent UK · Sep 2, 2022

Nelson Mandela’s grandson criticises Meghan Markle over royal wedding celebration remarks

Meghan claimed that she was told people ‘rejoiced in the streets’ the same way as when Mandela was freed from prison

Chronicle Live · Sep 2, 2022