UK’s new left-wing govt is releasing the first of thousands of prisoners, convicts saying they would be voting Labour after gaining liberty.
Concerns have been raised over the government’s plan to release some 1,700 prisoners this week could lead to outbreaks of gang warfare.
Snipers from Russia’s national guard on Friday killed four inmates who had seized prison guards as hostages and declared allegiance to ISIS.
The emergency Operation Early Dawn measure to clear prison space amid the sentencing of anti-migration rioters will reportedly see at least 5,500 criminals released early.
The new Labour Party government is reportedly considering a scheme to release some criminals free early to reduce prison overcrowding.
A hunger strike that thousands of Venezuelan inmates staged on Sunday in 16 prisons has reportedly expanded to at least 51 prisons.
President of Ecuador Daniel Noboa announced on Thursday that the South American country will soon begin construction of two maximum-security prisons in the same style as the “mega-prison” built by Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele in 2023.
A former soldier who escaped from a London prison while awaiting trial on terrorism charges was captured Saturday, police said.
British police have conceded the prison escape ‘terrorist’ may have had inside assistance in his escape, and may already have made it abroad.
A biological male who was convicted of raping two women has complained about allegedly suffering transphobic abuse in a male prison.
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele announced a “war” on corruption during his fourth annual presidential speech on Thursday evening.
A jailed murderer who identifies as transgender is looking to have a male-to-female sex change surgery that is funded by the UK taxpayer.
The mayor of Medellín, Colombia, Daniel Quintero Calle, announced this weekend that the city’s council has approved the budget to build a new metropolitan jail in the same style as the one built by Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele and recently inaugurated in February.
El Salvador on Friday moved the first 2,000 inmates to the new Center for the Confinement of Terrorism (CECOT), a 40,000-bed “mega prison” larger than all 20 of the country’s existing prisons combined. Over 64,000 suspects have been arrested so far in President Nayib Bukele’s crackdown on gang violence.
The family of a woman murdered along with her two children have expressed outrage that the Parole Board for England and Wales is considering sending the killer to a so-called “open prison”.
Discussions regarding the protection of women and girls in UK prisons could be “transphobic”, a pro-LGBT group has claimed.
El Salvador on Tuesday formally opened an immense prison called the Terrorism Confinement Center. The prison has 40,000 beds, making it one of the largest in Latin America, with more capacity than all of El Salvador’s 20 existing penal facilities combined.
The number of inmates in French prisons has reached a record high as crime continues to surge.
Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D), who is running against Dr. Mehmet Oz for the state’s open United States Senate seat, helped free a convicted first-degree murderer from prison in 2019.
Male prisoners who identify as “transgender” are to be no longer incarcerated with women, a minister is set to promise.
The Spanish Interior Ministry has warned prison guards and other prison officials to take extreme caution over threats to their safety from Jihadi inmates after threats made in a radical Islamic magazine. the Interior Ministry warned prison employees to take
An internal report has claimed that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) is not doing enough to monitor extremism in Canadian prisons and prisons need to do more to share more information.
Britain’s Justice Tsar was greeted by shouts of ‘Allahu Akbar’ on a visit to a UK prison, in which Islamists are now said to be running amok.
Devin Buckley, a feminist who was to speak at Harvard, was blocked because she is against biological men competing against women.
Nearly one-third of occupants in Italian prisons are migrants, with the latest official data showing over 17,000 prisoners came from abroad.
Female prisoners in California are seeking help from being housed with biological men who see themselves as “transgender women.”
Taliban officials claimed on Friday that a viral video showing the destruction of Afghanistan’s historic Gereshk Fortress was a “misunderstanding.” The video clearly shows the walls of the ancient site coming down, but the Taliban claimed it was merely demolishing an unused prison located near the fortress.
A report noted “at least one woman” has become pregnant after enactment of a California law forces women to be housed with men in prisons.
A new law in a California that allows men prisoners to be housed with women and officials are responding by handing out condoms.
George Soros-funded Bard College is featuring a course this fall that aims to teach students how to “sell” abolishing prisons and the police.
Tewkunzi Green was released from prison 22 years early after murdering Montral Fleming in Peoria in 2007 when Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) signed a “commutation of sentencing order.” Fleming’s family says they were not notified of her prison release through the state, but instead through Facebook. Multiple families have had similar experiences, and Illinois Senate Republicans are asking why.
Officials in Pittsburg are worried about the safety of transgender inmates in Allegheny County Jail but not the threat to biological women.
A poll released by Russia’s state-funded VTsIOM polling agency on Tuesday found seven out of ten Russians supporting the return of gulag labor camps, a notorious Stalinist practice that used prisoners for slave labor on state construction projects.
Maine is mulling a bill that would allow incarcerated individuals in the state to be housed in prisons based on their “gender identity.”
A labor union with more than 600,000 active and retired members is blasting President Joe Biden’s ending federal contracts with privately-operated prisons that hold mostly foreign nationals convicted of felonies.
California state officials have made more than 63,000 felons convicted of violent crimes eligible for early prison release, including almost 20,000 convicts who are serving life sentences.
A coronavirus variant spread around Michigan as Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s (D) Department of Corrections (DOC) transferred inmates between prisons.
The Housing and Urban Development Department (HUD) is charting a new course that contrasts with the Trump administration’s effort to prevent men from being housed in spaces with vulnerable women.
Migrant minors are reportedly causing havoc in French prisons and juvenile detention centres, though some doubt the migrants are the age they claim to be.
President Joe Biden is reinstating an Obama era-policy to phase out the Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP) contracts with a handful of privately-managed prisons that almost entirely hold foreign nationals convicted of federal crimes.