The Latest Breaking News from Prison

"Saudi Doctoral Student Gets 34 Years in Prison For Tweets"

The AP reports: A Saudi court has sentenced a doctoral student to 34 years in prison for spreading "[allegedly false] rumors" and retweeting dissidents, according to court documents obtained Thursday, a decision that has drawn growing global condemnation. Activists and lawyers consider the sentence against Salma al-Shehab, a mother of…

Reason · Aug 19, 2022

"I’ve survived a heroin addiction and prison, it has made me a better leader"

Michael Maisey's petty theft stealing sandwiches quickly escalated - an attempted suicide behind bars at 18 saw him decide to rebuild his life

Daily Mirror · Aug 19, 2022

How a ban on visitors impacted the smuggling of drugs into Florida prisons

Prison officials have long said that inmates’ friends and family members bear the most blame for the flow of drugs and other forbidden items into Florida prisons.

McClatchy Washington Bureau · Aug 19, 2022

Woman tortured by 'evil' partner days before her drug overdose death, court told

Bobby Hardman has been jailed for four years after pleading guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm and false imprisonment following the death of girlfriend Charissa Brown-Wellington

Daily Mirror · Aug 19, 2022

Star Hobson's killer walks around prison with 'big smile' on her face, inmate claims

Inmates at HMP Styal claim that Savannah Brockhill is walking around the facility escorted by guards and 'grinning' as she serves a life sentence for murdering the toddler

Daily Mirror · Aug 19, 2022

South Australian mother accused of son's criminal neglect remanded in custody, pending appeal against bail

A South Australian woman charged with the criminal neglect of her two-year-old son is granted home-detention bail by an Adelaide court but will not be released from prison for now, after police seek a review of the magistrate's decision.

ABC News · Aug 19, 2022

ISIS ‘Beatle’ Faces Life Sentence for Us Hostage Deaths

A member of the notorious ISIS kidnap-and-murder cell known as the "Beatles," is to be sentenced in a US court on Friday for the deaths of four American hostages in Syria. El Shafee Elsheikh, 34, faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison after being convicted in Alexandria, Virginia, in…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Aug 19, 2022

China sentences tycoon Xiao Jianhua to 13 years, fines his company $8.1 billion

A Shanghai court on Friday sentenced Chinese-Canadian billionaire Xiao Jianhua, not seen in public since 2017, to 13 years in jail and fined his Tomorrow Holdings conglomerate 55.03 billion yuan ($8.1 billion), a record in China.

Reuters · Aug 19, 2022

El Shafee Elsheikh: London-raised ‘Beatle’ IS terror cell member to be sentenced in US

A member of the so-called “Beatles” Islamic State terror cell could be sentenced to life in prison on Friday in the US.

Evening Standard · Aug 19, 2022

Inside maximum security prison ISIS Beatle will go to - from where nobody escaped

ISIS Beatle member El Shafee Elsheikh is set for decades inside the 'Alcatraz of the Rockies' when he is sentenced today. Prisoners held there survive in near-continuous solitary confinement

Daily Mirror · Aug 19, 2022