Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) benefited financially from the existence of private prisons despite vowing to ban them on the grounds that they are “profiteering off cruelty,” a report from the Washington Free Beacon revealed.
Registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was allowed 90 visits with one of his underage rape victims during his 2008 incarceration in Palm Beach, Florida, reports said.
Labour’s London mayor Sadiq Khan has launched a pilot programme which would see women who have committed “lower-level, non-violent offences”, such as thieves and shoplifters, avoid jail in favour of receiving mental health and substance abuse support.
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) unveiled a sweeping criminal justice reform plan Monday and dedicated a significant portion of it to the legalization of marijuana, promising to facilitate government loans to “socially and economically disadvantaged individuals” in the marijuana industry.
Two convicts in Montana have been ordered to write the names of all Americans killed in Afghanistan and Iraq as part of their sentencing, reports said.
Does the phrase “convicted felon” seem too harsh? A Calif. city board thinks so, and now they want people to say “justice-involved person.”
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) unveiled a sweeping criminal justice reform plan Sunday aimed to combat “institutional racism” in the country. The plan includes diversifying police forces, creating a civilian corps of unarmed first responders, ending cash bail, and cutting the U.S. prison population in half.
Jeffrey Epstein bought two pairs of size small women’s panties from a jail store during his incarceration in 2008, according to reports.
Someone helped Jeffrey Epstein commit suicide, Epstein’s longtime bodyguard, Igor Zinoviev, said Monday.
An HIV-positive man remanded in custody for beating a woman squirted a mixture of what he said was “s***t, p*** and a bit of semen” in the faces of prison guards, but was allowed to walk out of court with a suspended sentence.
The warden of the prison where Jeffrey Epstein was held has been temporarily reassigned, the Department of Justice (DOJ) ordered Tuesday.
One of the Metropolitan Correctional Center guards assigned to check on Jeffrey Epstein – the convicted pedophile who faced up to 45 years behind bars on sex-trafficking charges – was not a correctional officer, according to recent reports.
At least one-in-nine inmates residing in prisons across Washington, DC, and 34 states identify as Muslim, state data reveals.
A Brazilian man imprisoned for drug trafficking failed in his attempt to escape prison in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday after dressing up as his 19-year-old daughter, who was heading home after visitation hours.
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The United Nations has criticised Sweden for an increase in children being detained, as statistics from the Swedish prosecutor’s office have revealed.
A total of nine prison officers were injured, including two with serious cranial trauma, after a migrant prisoner violently attacked them, leading to major complaints being lodged by the Autonomous Penitentiary Police Union (SAPPE).
About 3-in-4 American voters oppose a plan by socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to allow convicted felons in local, state, and federal prisons to vote in federal elections from their jail cells, a new poll finds.
Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) recent endorsement of giving voting rights to all American citizens who are currently in prison for local, state, and federal crimes would allow some 183,000 convicted murderers and 164,000 convicted rapists to vote from their jail cells.
UK government plans to do away with short prison sentences could result in tens of thousands of convicts on Britain’s streets, “unleashing a crime wave” on citizens, a think tank report has warned. Civitas’s report published Monday predicts that the government’s
Nicaragua’s Sandinista regime sentenced several anti-government protesters to hundreds of years in prison for defying the regime this week.
The number of prisoners in Switzerland has soared in the last 30 years with foreigners now accounting for 80 per cent of the prison population, according to the Swiss Federal Statistical Office.
Illegal aliens concentrated in 10 U.S. states are up to more than five times as likely to be in prison for crimes than American citizens and legal immigrants, a new study reveals.
Court of appeal judges have overturned a two-year suspended sentence on a London teen who attacked a car with a large ‘zombie’ knife in broad daylight, ordering he be imprisoned for three and a half years.
A man who ran an international child porn ring was beaten to death in prison this week, but one of his victims predicted his fate long before his demise.
INTERPOL secretary-general Jürgen Stock has sounded the alarm on a potential new wave of radical Islamic terrorism, saying that Islamists about to be released from prison could pose a new terror threat to Europe.
Avril Richardson has been charged with second-degree sexual assault for her sexual relationship with an inmate at Northern State Prison.
The French prison population has increased by almost 25 per cent in ten years, leading to problems with overcrowding. A report published by the Council of Europe and released on Tuesday says there has been a 23.3 per cent increase in
David Bohart, 34, was arrested at a hotel on Friday on suspicion of the fatal stabbing of 49-year-old Marika L. Jones after recently being released from an Arizona prison.
Terror convict Anjem Choudary must complete a compulsory de-radicalization program as part of his probation following early release from prison.
A Christian Chaplin at a south London prison had his gatherings stormed by pro-terrorist Muslims and was hounded out his job by an Islamic imam accusing him of extremism.
A transgender person convicted of multiple rapes and sexual abuse of a child carried out sex attacks on fellow inmates within days of being remanded into a women’s prison.
An alleged leader of the MS-13 gang complained to a New York judge that he faces a hard life behind bars because he has limited access to a phone and faces “discrimination” at his jail, according to a Monday report.
There has been a 23 percent surge in drugs found in UK prisons in just one year, with the number of prisoners testing positive hitting a 12-year high.
The judge who rushed to send activist Tommy Robinson to jail did not even watch the full video in which he supposedly breached contempt of court laws, his lawyers have claimed.
NANTERRE, France (AP) — French investigators believe a team of four or five loyal accomplices carried out the brazen prison helicopter escape of one of France’s most notorious criminals.
TEL AVIV – A Jordanian journalist who spent time in an Israeli prison told a Saudi TV station that he was “ashamed” of the differences between prisons in the Arab world and those of Israel, in which prisoners are able to receive an education.
PARIS (AP) – France’s justice minister says investigators believe that drones seen months ago buzzing above a prison may be linked to the brazen escape of a notorious French criminal. Justice Minister Nicole Belloubet said authorities are urgently looking for
Britain’s prison population is at its lowest in eight years thanks to new government rules which have boosted early releases by more than 50 percent in the last six months.
The UK taxpayer will hand over around £20,000 so a transgender murderer, accused of having sex with women in female prisons, can be flown hundreds of miles for a surgical sex change.
