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

Breaking Live 3 publishers covering this story in the last 6 hours

8m ago Molly's murderer set to appeal, dashing family's hopes
29m ago Driver Who Thought He Hit a Kangaroo Avoids Jail for Killing Pakistani Student Appearing to Pray on Adelaide Road
1h ago Chess pro's alleged stalker goes on hunger strike
4h ago Australian engineer detained in Iraq granted release
5h ago Lawyers who helped detained Australian Robert Pether leave Iraq criticise Wong for announcing news

You may not hear much more about a Brittney Griner prisoner swap and there’s a good reason why

This is why the Brittney Griner prisoner swap negotiations are going to go quiet again.

USA Today Sports Media Group · Aug 5, 2022

US, Russia say they're willing to discuss prisoner swap after Griner conviction

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday they’re willing to pursue talks on a prisoner exchange involving WNBA star Brittney Griner and another jailed American.

Tribune News Service · Aug 5, 2022

Wanted rapist who absconded from prison may be living ‘off grid’, police say

Sean Phipps, who has convictions for rape and kidnap, has been missing since June 1 after absconding from HMP Leyhill in south Gloucester.

The Independent UK · Aug 5, 2022

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

Scots woman battered with dumbbell by convicted killer says she forgives him as he faces parole hearing

Robbie McIntosh has only served five years for his crazed attack on Linda McDonald which left her with serious injuries

Daily Record · Aug 5, 2022

Man who sent death threats to Fauci sentenced to three years in prison

‘Smart and technologically sophisticated, the defendant intended to heighten the terror he sought to instill by using a foreign encrypted email provider’, prosecutors say

The Independent UK · Aug 5, 2022

Russia ‘ready to discuss’ prisoner swap but will resist pressure to free Brittney Griner

Biden ‘hopeful’ about Griner release after foreign minister Sergei Lavrov warns Russia will not tolerate ‘megaphone diplomacy’

The Guardian - US · Aug 5, 2022

Russia "ready to discuss" prisoner swap for Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan

The U.S. has proposed exchanging Griner and Whelan for convicted Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout.

Axios · Aug 5, 2022

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

Kremlin says Griner swap must be discussed without publicity

The Kremlin says it’s open to talking about a possible prisoner exchange involving American basketball star Brittney Griner but strongly warned Washington against publicizing the issue

The Independent UK · Aug 5, 2022

Ex-MP Natalie McGarry lodges appeal against embezzlement conviction

The 40-year-old former SNP politician was sentenced to two years in prison earlier this year.

The Independent UK · Aug 5, 2022

After Griner trial, Kremlin says: we'll not discuss swaps in public

The Kremlin said on Friday that possible prisoner exchanges with the United States should not be discussed in public because if they were then they would never take place.

Reuters · Aug 5, 2022

Prisoners removed after violent protest erupts in Moutjoy Prison

There has been heightened tension all week in Mountjoy following the murder of Robert O'Connor

Dublin Live · Aug 5, 2022

Explainer-Who is Viktor Bout, arms dealer linked to swap for Americans held by Russia?

The life of Viktor Bout, the Russian arms dealer jailed in the United States and linked to a possible swap for two U.S. citizens imprisoned by Moscow, sometimes reads like a far-fetched spy thriller.

Reuters · Aug 5, 2022

Violent protest by over 40 inmates at Mountjoy as prisoners removed and sent to other jails

There has been heightened tension all week in Mountjoy following the murder of 34-year-old prisoner Robert O'Connor

Irish Mirror · Aug 5, 2022

'I forgive the man who tried to murder me with a dumbbell - I'm not angry at him'

Linda McDonald remembers thinking 'this is the day you die and this is the way you die' while she lay bleeding from Robbie McIntosh's attack in August 2017

Daily Mirror · Aug 5, 2022

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Asharq Al-Awsat · Aug 5, 2022

Russia Ready to Discuss Prisoner Swap with US, Lavrov Says

Russia said on Friday it was ready to discuss prisoner swaps with the United States through an existing diplomatic channel, a day a Russian court sentenced basketball star Brittney Griner to nine years in prison for a drugs offence. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said President Vladimir Putin and his US…

Reuters · Aug 5, 2022

After Griner gets jail, Russia ready to discuss swap with U.S

Russia said on Friday it was ready to discuss a prisoner swap with the United States in private, a day after a Russian court jailed U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner for nine years for a drugs offence.

The Guardian - US · Aug 5, 2022

Family fights to free beloved US lawyer imprisoned in Venezuela while on vacation

Family of Eyvin Hernandez, a Los Angeles public defender, calls for Biden to help facilitate his return: ‘He is more valuable to the world being free’

Dublin Live · Aug 5, 2022

Mountjoy thugs suspected of killing inmate 'changed clothes' after vicious fatal attack

The investigation is continuing into O’Connor’s murder after his life-support machine was switched off in Dublin’s Mater Hospital in the early hours of Wednesday morning

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Irish Mirror · Aug 5, 2022

Suspected Mountjoy killers seen on CCTV acting 'like nothing happened' moments after viciously beating Robert O'Connor

A number of men were identified through CCTV which showed them fleeing the cell where O’Connor was viciously beaten on the C2 landing and going into a separate one

ABC News · Aug 5, 2022

WA government says transfer of Banksia Hill detainees to Casuarina has 'worked'

The West Australian government claims the relocation of young offenders to an adult prison has "worked", despite reports of self-harm emerging, and a retired judge saying the transfer represents a "broken system".

AAP · Aug 5, 2022

Dad reached over kids to fatally stab mum

James Leonard Fairhall will spend at least 18 years and six months in prison for fatally stabbing his ex-partner in the neck in front of their three children.

ABC News · Aug 5, 2022

James Fairhall jailed for 25 years for murder of partner Noeline Dalzell in front of their children

Melbourne man James Leonard Fairhall is sentenced in the Supreme Court of Victoria to 25 years in prison over the 2020 murder of his partner Noeline Dalzell.

The Independent UK · Aug 5, 2022

Electricity theft at record levels amid cost-of-living crisis

Electricity theft is punishable by up to five years in prison.

ABC News · Aug 5, 2022

Why is Brittney Griner in a Russian jail? What's the offer to get her out?

WNBA star Brittney Griner has been sentenced to nine years in Russian prison in a sentence that US President Joe Biden has deemed "unacceptable", but what did she do and what's the government's plan to get her out?

The Independent UK · Aug 4, 2022

Relatives of POWs call on Red Cross to help find loved ones

Relatives of prisoners of war taken captive by Russia after the fall of Azovstal steel plant are calling for answers a week on from a prison attack in a separatist region of eastern Ukraine that reportedly killed dozens

1 … 899 900 901 902

Coverage From

People

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

Organisations

Department of Justice

Scottish Prison Service

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.