All news on the topic: Prisoners

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Machete attacker and yob who left baby paralyzed are set to be released early from prison
Adam Andrews is due to be released despite leaving a baby boy with injuries so severe that he now needs round-the-clock care and suffers from about 40 seizures a day
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First UK prisoners released early express dissatisfaction, calling the situation ’a bit s**t’
Prisoners released early under a government overcrowding scheme voiced concerns about housing support and strict tagging conditions
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A "dangerous" British prisoner has escaped from a Portuguese jail by reportedly "climbing up a ladder"
A British prisoner serving time at a Portuguese jail for kidnap and robbery has managed to escape by ‘climbing up a ladder’.
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Martin Jackson: Police search for escaped prisoner missing from HMP Castle Huntly
Jackson is on the run from HMP Castle Huntly, which is west of Dundee, and was reported missing to police on Wednesday evening.
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HMP Wandsworth had the "worst year in memory" for inhumane conditions
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ), said it had "inherited a justice system in crisis".
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Prison crowding emergency measures described as a ’sticking plaster,’ Starmer told
Ministers activate Operation Early Dawn, so defendants can be held in police cells as more are sentenced over riots
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Spanish journalist or Russian spy? The mystery of Pablo González’s double life
Among the Russians freed in this week’s historic exchange of prisoners between Russia and the West was a Russian-born freelance journalist from Spain who had been based in Poland since 2019
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Kris Maharaj, who spent 38 years in Florida prison despite judge finding him innocent, dies
Kris Maharaj was convicted of the murder of a father and son back in 1986, but he always maintained his innocence. In 2019 a judge ruled he had proved so.
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Russia frees Evan Gershkovich and others in biggest prisoner swap since cold war
Several foreigners and Russian political prisoners released as Germany frees hitman Vadim Krasikov as part of deal
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Dual UK-Russian national ‘freed by Putin in largest prisoner swap since Cold War’
One of Vladimir Putin’s top enemies – who is a Russian-British citizen – will be released from a penal colony as part of a high-profile exchange of prisoners between Russia and the West, it is understood.
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US reporter Evan Gershkovich released by Russia in major prisoner exchange
Russia is releasing Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and former Marine Paul Whelan as part of a major prisoner swap with the US
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Sandra Hemme to be released from prison after 43 years for a murder she didn’t commit
The 64-year-old Missouri woman’s conviction was overturned last month, but has since gone through a legal rigmarole preventing her from being released
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Police hunt for prisoner after escape from London hospital
Graham Gomm, 63, had been on remand for burglary offences at HMP Wormwood Scrubs
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Exact number of prisoners to be freed early revealed as jails runs out of cells
Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood gave details of the early release scheme for prisoners as she confirmed how many offenders will be let out in a Commons statement
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Concerns mount over UK prisons nearing capacity before early release initiative starts
With Labour plan not coming into effect until September, ex-prison governor says emergency measures can only ‘keep a lid on things’
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Notorious gangster with terrifying nickname captured in a pub in Wigan
An infamous gangster known as ‘big Viking Stomper’ has been caught after escaping prison in late May.
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Prisons in England and Wales will reach ’breaking point’ by July, governors warned
Heads of prisons say they will no longer be able to accept new inmates ‘very soon’ after 4 July election
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El Salvador mega prison detains dangerous criminals where ’no one sleeps’
Inmates inside El Salvador’s Centre for the Confinement of Terrorism face brutal conditions with 80 crammed into one cell and no natural daylight as President Bukele takes a tough crackdown on drugs gangs
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Escaped prisoner Daniel Gee seen in new CCTV images with a woman and a pram
Notorious gangster Daniel Gee escaped from Kirklevington Prison in Stockton on May 27, and Cleveland Police has now released CCTV images of a woman who appeared to meet him at a train station.
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Mariupol police officer returns home after two years of torture camps hell
This is the heart-wrenching moment a police officer stepped onto Ukrainian soil for the first time after two years in ‘filtration’ camps in Russia.
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Notorious gangster the public ’must be protected from’ absconds from prison
Daniel Gee Gee was jailed after a secret probe caught him conspiring to buy guns and threatening to kill a teenager
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Inmates used plastic cutlery to dig through the walls of Winchester prison
One in 10 prisons in England and Wales barely fit for purpose, says audit of prisoner treatment
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Man who stabbed ’defenceless’ grandfather ’for people of Gaza’ jailed
Ahmed Ali Alid, 45, told police after his arrest that the attack was "for the people of Gaza" and that if he had access to a machine gun he would have killed more people.
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Kent: 25 workers ’poisoned’ at Swaleside prison by ’inmates working in staff canteen’
Workers were allegedly given the narcotic by "prisoners working in the staff canteen" at HMP Swaleside in Kent, with a union demanding a "full investigation".
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Emergency measures activated to tackle prison overcrowding in England
Those in police custody could remain there as bail hearings are delayed in case they are placed in prison while awaiting trial because of a lack of jail cells.