The government was warned of the potential for disorder months before Britain’s biggest prison riot in decades but failed to act, and now the violence is threatening to spread to other vulnerable jails.
Britain’s Justice Secretary has said those responsible for yesterday’s prison riot “will face the full force of the law” after hundreds took control of wings and looted riot gear. Speaking after officers finally regained control of HMP Birmingham late on
Prisoners posted images and selfies of themselves rioting in real time from the inside of a British prison today after guards “lost control” of the facility. Inmates at HMP Birmingham, a privately run Category B prison in Winson Green, Birmingham rioted
TEL AVIV – Israel granted asylum to a gay Eritrean man on the grounds that returning to his home country – where homosexuality is illegal – would endanger his life.
TEL AVIV – Turkish authorities reportedly tortured political detainees after a failed military coup led to thousands of arrests during the government-declared state of emergency, NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) has alleged.
A manhunt is currently underway in Louisiana as law enforcement officials search for three male inmates who escaped from a detention center in the state.
A man named Sheetal Kawale became the first beneficiary of an initiative by the government of Maharashtra, India, for convicts to earn reduced sentences by completing a yoga program.
Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder took the stage at the Democratic National Convention and took swipes at Donald Trump’s presidential campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again,” and said, “Donald! America is already a great nation.”
(AFP) – Belgium faces a growing crisis in its prisons, with the army called in to help and inmates stuck in their cells 24 hours a day as the government struggles to end a strike by prison staff. “The situation
The bipartisan sentencing reform push in Congress would cause the premature release of many criminal aliens without a guarantee of deportation, according to NumbersUSA.
United States Border Patrol has recaptured an escaped prisoner who walked away from a minimum security facility in California’s Sierra Nevada foothills in December 2010.
A former paratrooper on remand in prison was beaten by a gang led by a Muslim convert in what is now being described as a “terrorist attack” in Britain Eight men attacked Craig Jones in his cell at Hewell Prison
Nearly one inmate a week on average has been mistakenly released from prison over the last decade, new figures reveal. Just under a quarter of those accidentally let go were serving time for burglary or violent offences. According to data
Computer-determined inmate release in Washington state has come to a screeching halt after the discovery of a computer error that led to the DOC releasing state prisoners prematurely.
House Speaker Paul Ryan’s first budget provides extra funding for President Barack Obama’s effort to release more convicts from federal prisons, despite warnings from police officials and the FBI chief.
A transgendered man ‘identifying’ as a woman, who was sentenced to a term in a male jail, has been moved to an all female prison. This is despite a court stressing his “worrying” violent history and it emerging that he
Muslim inmates in many of Britain’s high security prisons are forcing non-Muslims to pay a “protection” tax if they refuse to convert to Islam in jail. The ‘tax’, known as ‘jizya’, is described in the Koran and is currently being
In another victory for #hashtag activism, prison authorities are preparing for a climb-down by transferring a violent, biologically male prisoner with a male passport to a female jail after 97,000 people signed an online petition, promoted by a Conservative Member of
Roughly 1 in 9 black children you pass on the street has or has had a parent in prison, according to a recent study by Maryland-based research firm Child Trends.
White House officials are aggressively pushing back at FBI director James Comey’s remarkable—although indirect—public criticism of President Barack Obama’s crime policies.
On October 26, the International Association of Chiefs of Police met in Chicago for their annual conference where they dropped their push for longer prison sentences and refocused their attention on passing more gun control.
A new report has warned that within the UK’s first majority Muslim prison, non-Muslim inmates are being pressured to convert to an “Islamic protection racket” which forms the largest “power block” in the jail. The number of Muslims in Whitemoor prison in Cambridgeshire is
Scotland’s largest prison has been “twinned” with the country’s largest mosque in a bid to cut reoffending rates among Muslim ex-convicts. If successful, the scheme is likely to be rolled out to other institutions across the country. HM Prison Barlinnie,
One of the oddest spectacles of recent years has been the political class’s utter befuddlement as to the decline in crime over recent decades.
Illegal immigrants awaiting deportation at a detention centre are to be offered a “culturally diverse” menu after inspectors ruled that prison staff must cater for their tastes. The 575 male inmates at Verne Immigration Removal Centre, in Portland, Dorset hail
Three corrections officers were arrested early Thursday morning on suspicion of murder after a mentally ill inmate at Santa Clara County Main Jail was found dead in his cell on August 27.
Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, 65, a Tibetan monk and prominent political prisoner, died in Chinese captivity on Sunday. In 2002, he was arrested and imprisoned on a bombing charge his supporters claim was wrongful. The United States, European Union, and international human rights organizations all pushed for his release.
PHOENIX (AP)—Some inmates at the Maricopa County Jail did a double-take after seeing actress Pamela Anderson serving their lunches.
NEW YORK (AP) — John Legend has launched a campaign to end mass incarceration. The Grammy-winning singer announced the multiyear initiative, FREE AMERICA, on Monday. He will visit and perform at a correctional facility on Thursday in Austin, Texas, where
A heroin dealer and an attempted murderer were let out of prison on day release to watch 50 Shades of Gray at their local cinema. Roseanne McCreadie, 34, and Kim Gray, 47, were taken on the trip to the Vue
Labour would give prisoners a say on how jails are run, it has emerged. They have justified the proposal on the ground that prison should be about rehabilitation, not just a form of punishment. The proposal was revealed in a
According to a Texas border television station, when about 2,000 illegal aliens engage in a mass riot, yelling, overturning tents, and setting fires, it is only a “demonstration.”
Approximately 2,000 inmates at a federal detention center near the border that primarily houses immigration detainees rioted and set off fires, requiring a massive mobilization of law enforcement to secure the perimeter and restore order.
Two convicted murderers serving life-terms are set to marry in the UK’s first gay marriage behind bars. Both were jailed after targeting and killing gay men. Mikhail Ivan Gallatinov, 40, was jailed in 1997 for the “cold blooded” murder of 28-year-old gay
Convicted child sex offender, drug trafficker and prior deportee Eloy Chavez-Loviano was arrested near Calexico, California on Monday when Border Patrol agents caught Chavez attempting to cross back into the United States from Mexico.
San Diego-based rapper Tiny Doo could receive 25 years to life in prison for violent lyrics in his album No Safety, from which prosecutors allege he directly benefited as a result of criminal gang violence.
