The Latest Breaking News from Prison

Jayaraasa, 41, Sri Lankan citizen, arrested by Mandapam police at Rameswaram. He escaped from Sri Lanka fearing arrest for criminal activities, reached Dhanushkodi by boat. Rumours of LTTE sympathiser. Central & State agencies inquired into history. Police registered case, to be produced before Judicial Magistrate & taken to Puzhal Central…

The award-winning Irish author on losing his father at 18, the drawbacks of English editors and the theme of imprisonment in his work

The PCC – First Capital Command – arose in the country’s notoriously brutal penitentiaries 30 years ago but now controls a billion-dollar drug trade supplying much of Europe’s cocaine

A military court in Myanmar has sentenced a general who until recently was a senior member of the country’s ruling council to five years in prison for abusing his authority and taking bribes

Ex-president Donald Trump faces 91 felony counts across four prosecutions as he runs for 2024 election

Umar Patek was freed last year after serving 11 years in jail for his role in the Bali bombings that killed 202 people.

A report also warned of ‘unprecedented pressures on the prison estate’ which it said threaten the quality of resettlement services.

There were 1,204,300 people in prison in the US in 2021, or 363 for every 100,000 people. Between 2011 and 2021, the prison population decreased by 25%.

Collector C. Palani orders detention of S. Mohanraj, 31, of Tirukovilur under Goondas Act for peddling ganja. Despite multiple arrests, Mohanraj continued to indulge in crime. Order served in Cuddalore Central Prison on recommendation of SP G. Shashank Sai.

Cops were warned to check crime suspects for tattoos linked to the El Tren de Aragua prison gang. A Sun-Times analysis found shoplifting and domestic violence arrests, but little proof of the gang’s presence among migrants.

The case prosecutes crimes committed at detention centers, including Banfield Pit, under the 1976 to 1983 dictatorship