The Latest Breaking News from Prison

Man who threatened Dr. Fauci, other official, gets 3 years

A West Virginia man has been sentenced to three years in federal prison after sending emails that threatened Dr. Anthony Fauci and another federal health official

The Independent UK · Aug 4, 2022

Albert Woodfox, inmate who spent decades in solitary, dies

Albert Woodfox, a former inmate who spent decades in isolation at a Louisiana prison and then became an advocate for prison reforms after he was released, died Thursday of complications from COVID-19

The Independent UK · Aug 4, 2022

US keeping ex-prison chief as top adviser after rocky tenure

The federal Bureau of Prisons is keeping its former director on the payroll as an adviser to his successor, at least for a short time

The Independent UK · Aug 4, 2022

EXPLAINER: What will it take to get Brittney Griner home?

Now that WNBA star Brittney Griner has been convicted of drug possession and sentenced to nine years in prison, attention turns to the prospect of a prisoner swap between the United States and Russia that could get her home

The Independent UK · Aug 4, 2022

Griner reaction: WNBA players ‘having a hard time’ with verdict

MINNEAPOLIS — Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve said Thursday that her team's players and coaching staff "have been glued to seeing Brittney [Griner] in the trial" that ended with the Phoenix Mercury star being found guilty of drug possession and sentenced to nine years in prison by a Russian judge.

Tribune News Service · Aug 4, 2022

WNBA’s Brittney Griner gets 9-year Russia jail term in drug case

A Moscow court sentenced WNBA player Brittney Griner to nine years in prison on drug charges, raising the stakes in deadlocked talks between Russia and the U.S. on a possible prisoner exchange involving the basketball star.

Tribune News Service · Aug 4, 2022

WNBA denounces nine-year prison-term for Brittney Griner

“Today’s verdict and sentencing is unjustified and unfortunate, but not unexpected and Brittney Griner remains wrongly detained,” the WNBA and NBA’ said in a joint statement.

Chicago Sun-Times · Aug 4, 2022

Undercover journalist in Afghanistan finds Taliban are abducting, imprisoning women

Filmmaker Ramita Navai has seen girls and women forced to marry Taliban members or arrested for violating the morality code. Her new PBS Frontline documentary is Afghanistan Undercover.

WEKU · Aug 4, 2022

‘We will see a death’: advocates fear for children inside maximum-security Perth prison after boy self-harms

Teenager taken to WA hospital is one of 17 young people transferred from Banksia Hill juvenile detention centre

The Guardian - AU · Aug 4, 2022

Man with half a head jailed for 10 years for attacking supermarket shop worker

The judge rejected an appeal to and sentenced Robert Matthew Berkopec to 10 years in Montana State Prison, saying it was his own violence that put him there

Daily Mirror · Aug 4, 2022