The Latest Breaking News from Prison

Bail laws need to change to reduce harm to children, Victorian inquiry finds

Parental incarceration can interrupt childhood development and affects wellbeing, report finds

The Guardian - AU · Aug 4, 2022

County Durham woman threatened to burn down carer's home within hours of prison release

Laura Walker, 34, went to a full-time carer's home and made terrifying threats to burn her house down

Chronicle Live · Aug 4, 2022

Mountjoy prisoner killed in assault had been attacked just two days earlier on different wing

Gardai are now treating the investigation as a murder inquiry after O’Connor’s life support machine at the nearby Mater Hospital was switched off in the early hours of yesterday morning.

Irish Mirror · Aug 4, 2022

US says Russia aims to fabricate evidence in prison deaths

U.S. officials believe Russia is working to fabricate evidence concerning last week’s deadly strike on a facility housing prisoners of war in a separatist region of eastern Ukraine

The Independent UK · Aug 4, 2022

NCA bomber Domenic Perre loses appeal against conviction for spitting on police officer

Domenic Perre — the man found guilty over a deadly parcel bomb attack on the National Crime Authority in Adelaide nearly three decades ago — loses a bid to overturn a guilty verdict for spitting at a police officer in prison.

ABC News · Aug 4, 2022

'Decolonising' classrooms could help keep First Nations kids in school and away from police

The recent decision to transport juvenile offenders into an adult maximum-security prison in Western Australia shows the youth justice system is in crisis. The findings of the Don Dale Royal Commission, and the landmark Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody were uncomfortably similar, even though being held almost three…

The Conversation · Aug 4, 2022

Animal sanctuary owner charged for refusing to return cows to beef farm

Tracy Murphy could face up to seven years in prison if convicted

The Independent UK · Aug 4, 2022

NY man who sent threats to LGBTQ groups gets 30 months

A former schoolteacher from suburban New York City has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for mailing dozens of violent threats to LGBTQ affiliated individuals, groups and businesses over several years

The Independent UK · Aug 4, 2022

UN fact-finding mission will probe Ukraine prison killings

The United Nations chief says he is appointing a fact-finding mission in response to requests from Russia and Ukraine to investigate the killings at a prison in a separatist region of eastern Ukraine that the warring nations accuse each other of carrying out

The Independent UK · Aug 3, 2022

Russia sentences Griner to 9 years in prison, White House calls for her release

A Russian court sentenced U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner to nine years in prison on Thursday after finding her guilty of deliberately bringing cannabis-infused vape cartridges into Russia, a ruling that U.S. President Joe Biden called "unacceptable."

Reuters · Aug 3, 2022