Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Prison

Will the Menendez brothers get released from prison? Everything you need to know about their resentencing

Prosecutors have recommended that Erik and Lyle Menendez be resentenced for the 1989 killings of their parents. After 34 years behind bars, they’ll have a chance at freedom. Andrea Cavallier reports

The Independent UK

More than 1,000 drone incidents at jails in England and Wales last year

Exclusive: MoJ attempts to fight back against brazen deliveries that often include household items like ketchup alongside drugs

The Guardian - UK

Capitol Rioters Who Wanted Charges Dropped Unless Trump Also Convicted Fail To Convince Judge, Get Sent To Prison

A Texas couple is sent to prison for the Capitol riot, despite claiming all charges should be dropped if former President Trump is not found guilty.

International Business Times

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

What's driving France's sudden deportation of Kurdish activists?

France has a history of granting political asylum to Kurdish nationalists from Turkey who risk prison and torture back home. But recent deportations of Kurdish activists show a growing rift between the French state and its judiciary. One of these deportations has since been ruled illegal on appeal.

Radio France Internationale

Ex-Cop Blames PTSD, Frontal Lobe Damage After Brutally Assaulting Elderly Neighbors with Knives, Cattle Prod

A former police officer, who claimed she suffers from PTSD and frontal lobe damage, was sentenced to prison for attacking her elderly neighbors with weapons.

Latin Times

Former Texas Detective Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison For Role in Human Smuggling Operation

A federal investigation revealed that almost 200 migrants were smuggled by the human smuggling organization the former police detective worked for

Latin Times

Capitol Rioters Who Wanted Charges Dropped Unless Trump Also Convicted Fail to Convince Judge, Get Sent to Prison

A Texas couple is sent to prison for the Capitol riot, despite claiming all charges should be dropped if former President Trump is not found guilty.

Latin Times

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

Menendez Brother's Chances of Being Released From Prison After New Evidence Surfaces, According to a Legal Defense Expert

A criminal law expert is saying that there is a strong possibility that the Menendez brothers could soon be released from prison.

Latin Times

Prison officers dismissed for joking about inmate’s suicide

Two officers at HMP Wandsworth sent messages in staff WhatsApp group celebrating death of 21-year-old

The Guardian - UK

Ex-commander of a Ugandan rebel group has been sentenced to 40 years in prison

A former commander of the Lord’s Resistance Army rebels was sentenced by a court in Uganda on Friday to 40 years in prison for brutal crimes committed by the group during its insurgency that started in the 1980s

The Independent UK

Tory MP calls for ‘spitting crackdown’ and end to vandalism in bid to ‘make Britain vaguely civilised again’

Neil O’Brien claimed the desire to live in an ‘orderly and civilised society’ was ‘one of the most under-discussed’ things in politics

The Independent UK

Man jailed for missing pet scam blackmailed victim again days after release

Brandon Woolveridge was let out of prison under the government’s early release scheme

The Guardian - UK

Iran jails Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi for an extra six months

Mohammadi was already serving a 30-month sentence, to which 15 more months were previously added in January

The Independent UK

HMP Wandsworth prison officers 'made vile jokes about inmate's suicide'

One prison officer wrote ‘splendid if so. Total p***k’ after an inmate died at HMP Wandsworth

Evening Standard

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Independent UK

Mother who beat and starved her 5-year-old son to death faces over 50 years in prison

A New Hampshire woman faces a sentence of over 50 years to life in prison in the death of her 5-year-old son, who was beaten, starved and exposed to drugs

Pedestrian.tv

The Menendez Brothers Could Be Released From Prison In A Few Weeks As DA Pushes For Resentencing

The Menendez brothers may soon be freed after LA District Attorney George Gascón recommended resentencing based on new evidence & behaviours.

International Business Times

Menendez Brothers Could Be Freed After Prosecutor Urges Resentencing

Lyle and Erik Menendez, the two brothers whose grisly 1989 murder of their wealthy parents was the subject of a recent Netflix series, could be released from prison after a US prosecutor said Thursday he would ask a judge to look again at their sentences.

Latin Times

Minnesota Man Bragged on Social Media About Driving Twice the Speed Limit Sentenced to 9 Years in Prison for Vehicular Homicide

A Minnesota driver who posted his dangerously high speed to Snapchat moments before a deadly car crash has been sentenced to nearly a decade in prison.

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Independent UK

Los Angeles prosecutor recommends resentencing Menendez brothers for 1989 murders, making them parole eligible

Brothers sentenced to life in prison for high-profile 1989 killing of parents in Beverly Hills

Latin Times

LA DA George Gascón Recommends Resentencing for Menendez Brothers

Lyle and Erik Menendez have been allowed to stand in front of a judge to receive a new sentence for murdering their parents. The brothers were sentenced in 1996 to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

The Independent UK

A Detroit murder conviction is overturned 22 years later because of police misconduct

A Michigan man has been released from prison after 22 years after Detroit-area prosecutors acknowledged that his murder conviction was tainted by the key testimony of a rogue police officer

Top News

Prosecutors To Announce Decision On Menendez Brothers Resentencing

Prosecutors to announce decision on resentencing Menendez brothers for 1989 killings in Beverly Hills. Family advocates for release after decades in prison.

Latin Times

Four Charged and Sentenced For Making Death Threats Against Election Workers Across the U.S.

The threats were directed at volunteers, elected officials, and even FBI agents who were falsely accused of "lying" and "cheating."

The Independent UK

What happens now that a convicted felon has won the presidency?

Now that Trump has secured a second term in the White House, he could theoretically make history as the first president to run the country from a prison cell

The Independent UK

Todd Chrisley fired from job at prison chapel over interactions with other inmates

Reality TV star Todd Chrisley is serving a 12-year prison sentence in Florida for bank fraud and tax evasion charges

1 … 181 182 183 184

People

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

Organisations

the Department of Justice

the Ministry of Justice

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.