All news on the topic: Prisons

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Prison officers deal drugs and ask inmates for sex, media told
Next to a vandalised wire fence opposite HMP Bronzefield in Surrey, 28-year-old Beatrice Auty brushes away tears. The memories of her time inside the jail are too much to bear.
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Ex-soldier Daniel Khalife pleads guilty to escaping from HMP Wandsworth midway through trial
Daniel Khalife, an ex-soldier turned terror suspect who shot to national notoriety last year when he escaped from HMP Wandsworth, has pleaded guilty to the escape attempt midway through his trial
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Drugs and weapons have been seized in a sweep of the jail where Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is being held
Brooklyn detention center holding 1,200 has been under scrutiny since two fatal stabbings this summer
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Five individuals remain in jail 16 years after receiving IPP sentences of less than six months
‘Horrendous’ MoJ figures show some prisoners given indeterminate sentences in England and Wales before 2008 still behind bars
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Woman mistakenly classified as male and sent to an all-male prison
Once the gaffe came to light at HMP Perth, the woman was kept in segregation overnight and transported to the female prison estate the following morning.
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Fraud convictions didn’t prevent this lawyer from establishing a thriving practice in Cyprus
Cypriot authorities stalled for 13 years on a European Arrest Warrant filed by the U.K., where Christos Christodoulides absconded from prison. They finally let him serve the remainder of his sentence under house arrest in Cyprus.
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Over 1,000 drone incidents reported at prisons in England and Wales last year
MoJ attempts to fight back against brazen deliveries that often include household items like ketchup alongside drugs
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Prison employee involved in secret relationship with gangster inmate smuggles drugs into facility
Ashley Malloy was in a relationship with inmate John Mack who was serving a four-year sentence for drug offences - and when officers raided her locker, they found cocaine and heroin
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Prisoners leave in supercars minutes after early release
Around 1,100 prisoners have started to be released from prison early as part of a plan to ease overcrowding in prisons.
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Alabama executes death row prisoner using nitrogen gas
Alan Miller, 59, second person in US to be executed via controversial technique, shook and trembled on gurney
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Dozens of prisoners mistakenly released under Labour’s early release scheme
The Ministry of Justice has admitted 37 prisoners were wrongly released under Labour’s plans to reduce overcrowding in jails.
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Burglar awarded £5m after being stabbed in Chelmsford prison kitchen
Steven Wilson was attacked after risk assessment failed to stop convicted murderer working in kitchen with access to knives
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Inside the Brooklyn federal jail where Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is incarcerated: a look at the violence, squalor, and death
Fighting to keep Sean “Diddy” Combs out of jail after his sex trafficking arrest, the music mogul’s lawyers highlighted a litany of horrors at the Brooklyn federal lockup where he was headed: horrific conditions, rampant violence and multiple deaths.
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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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Swedish court sentences ex-Swedbank CEO to prison
A Swedish court overturned her previous acquittal, sentencing former Swedbank CEO Birgitte Bonnesen to 15 months in prison for making misleading statements about the bank’s inadequate anti-money laundering measures.
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A minister has not ruled out the possibility of the UK government renting prison space in Estonia
The Justice Ministry is reportedly considering sending criminals from England and Wales to a Baltic state.
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A leading Russian physicist has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for "state treason"
Sentencing of Alexander Shiplyuk is latest prison term for scientists working on military programmes
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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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Australia sentences 29-year-old in worst sexual extortion case in history
An Australian court sentenced a 29-year-old man to 17 years in prison for coercing 286 victims from several countries, including 180 children, into performing sexually explicit acts on camera or video.
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Only 100 spaces left in men’s prisons across England and Wales
Magistrates told to delay jailing criminals as weekly prison population reaches highest level since 2011
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Notorious gangster Curtis ’Cocky’ Warren admits six charges but avoids jail
Gangster Curtis ’Cocky’ Warren says he wants to be out of the ’public glare’ after admitting to breaching a Serious Crime Prevention Order he was slapped with for drug importation
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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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Russian court sentences US-Russian woman to 12 years in prison over $50 charity donation
Ksenia Khavana jailed for treason over donation to US charity that helps Ukraine
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Labour urged to scrap £4bn Tory mega-jails plan and invest in rehabilitation instead
Former chief inspector of prisons Nick Hardwick says money would be better spent preventing crime
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Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson could face up to 15 years in prison if convicted in Japan
Watson, founder of Sea Shepherd and co-founder of Greenpeace, has been arrested on an international warrant and is facing charges including accomplice to assault and ship trespass