All news on the topic: Prisoners

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Early release prisoner fatally stabs man on day of release
A 26-year-old man who was let out of prison on the government’s early release scheme stabbed a man the day he was let out.
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Jamie Cooper caught in Blackburn after dramatic escape from GEOAmey prison van on M55
Jamie Cooper escaped from a GEOAmey prison van after faking a medical emergency and ’overpowering guards’ while on his way to court, fleeing on the M55
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Jamie Cooper, 33, flees from transport van near Preston; police urge public not to approach
A police manhunt is in progress after a prisoner overpowered officers and escaped from a van transporting him to court on Wednesday - the public is advised ’do not approach’.
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IPP sentence ‘scandal’ continues as four more prisoners take their own lives
Prisoners trapped under indefinite jail terms continuing to take their own lives, say campaigners, as government resists calls to re-sentence them
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Russia’s ‘terrorist’ claims: The brutal reality of Ukrainian POWs and civilians in captivity
At the International Summit on the Support of Ukraine, which was held in Kyiv in February, President Volodymyr Zelensky said that an important step Russia could take towards ending the war is the release of all Ukrainian prisoners.
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Dean MacLeod, son of feared Edinburgh gangster, dies in jail
Dean MacLeod, who was found dead in his jail cell days after a violent attack on an officer, committed horrific crimes alongside his father, Ian MacLeod, a notorious gang leader.
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Parents who allowed their ballerina daughter to decrease to just 4st sent to prison as victim speaks out
An unnamed Australian in their mid-40s was jailed last month at Perth’s District Court of Western Australia for neglecting their only child after the child was admitted to the hospital severely malnourished.
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Two British pensioners found dead at their home on Spain’s Costa Blanca after ’lying undiscovered for days’ as police investigate the deaths
Two British pensioners in their 80s have been found dead at a Costa Blanca home after their bodies reportedly remained undiscovered for days.
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Chief inspector of probation says prisoners are being sent back to jail because it’s the ’easiest solution’
Martin Jones said prisons are overcrowded for "limited benefit" as the number of offenders sent back to jail after release has more than doubled in 10 years.
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Father serving indefinite jail term for phone theft loses hope after being denied hospital transfer
A father who has spent 13 years in prison for stealing a phone and set himself alight in desperation has “totally disengaged and lost hope” after being denied a hospital transfer, his devastated family have said.
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Escaped ’violent’ British prisoner Mark Roscaleer recaptured in Portugal
Mark Roscaleer was one of five men who escaped Vale de Judeus Prison Alcoentre near Lisbon - We’ll be bringing you the very latest updates, pictures and video on this breaking news story.
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Manhunt initiated for 44-year-old ex-Cardiff and QPR footballer Leonne Jeanne, wanted for prison return
Former football star Leonne Jeanne, who played for Cardiff and QPR, has been ’recalled to prison’ by South Wales Police, who are appealing for information on the 44-year-old.
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France’s first prison for drug lords to open in July
France will open its first prison dedicated to isolating the country’s top 100 drug lords in July as part of efforts to stop inmates from running criminal networks from behind bars.
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Charles Bronson, the UK’s most notorious prisoner, could be released within months as he makes a fresh bid for freedom
Charles Bronson, who has changed his name to Charles Salvador, has been convicted multiple times since 1974 for crimes...
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Guantanamo Bay’s longest-held detainee has been released after 23 years in detention
Guantanamo Bay’s earliest captive has finally been released after more than two decades in limbo.
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Prison officers deal drugs and ask inmates for sex, media told
Next to a vandalised wire fence opposite HMP Bronzefield in Surrey, 28-year-old Beatrice Auty brushes away tears. The memories of her time inside the jail are too much to bear.
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Five individuals remain in jail 16 years after receiving IPP sentences of less than six months
‘Horrendous’ MoJ figures show some prisoners given indeterminate sentences in England and Wales before 2008 still behind bars
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Prisoners leave in supercars minutes after early release
Around 1,100 prisoners have started to be released from prison early as part of a plan to ease overcrowding in prisons.
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Marseille drug wars resurface as a 14-year-old boy is allegedly hired as a hitman
Teenager alleged to have been recruited by prisoner who later called police to report him over killing of taxi driver
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Alabama executes death row prisoner using nitrogen gas
Alan Miller, 59, second person in US to be executed via controversial technique, shook and trembled on gurney
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Dozens of prisoners mistakenly released under Labour’s early release scheme
The Ministry of Justice has admitted 37 prisoners were wrongly released under Labour’s plans to reduce overcrowding in jails.
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Hundreds of prisoners released early in England and Wales were not fitted with electronic tags
Serco says it is working to fit electronic devices, which were a condition of early release of 1,700 last week
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Inside the Brooklyn federal jail where Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is incarcerated: a look at the violence, squalor, and death
Fighting to keep Sean “Diddy” Combs out of jail after his sex trafficking arrest, the music mogul’s lawyers highlighted a litany of horrors at the Brooklyn federal lockup where he was headed: horrific conditions, rampant violence and multiple deaths.
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Machete attacker and yob who left baby paralyzed are set to be released early from prison
Adam Andrews is due to be released despite leaving a baby boy with injuries so severe that he now needs round-the-clock care and suffers from about 40 seizures a day
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First UK prisoners released early express dissatisfaction, calling the situation ’a bit s**t’
Prisoners released early under a government overcrowding scheme voiced concerns about housing support and strict tagging conditions