£1bn bill to keep serious criminals in jail for longer: Officials admit plan for tougher sentencing for worst offenders will cost £385,000 per inmate An extra £1billion will be spent to keep serious criminals in prison for longer Sexual and violent offenders will serve at least two thirds rather than half a term Justice Secretary … Read more
Prison diversity officer, 51, ‘had inappropriate relationship with inmate and failed to report he had mobile phone behind bars’ Former HMP Wormwood Scrubs officer Pamela Belonwu, 51, is set to go on trial She is accused of having ‘inappropriate’ relationship with inmate Clifton Thomas Alleged relationship said to have taken place between January and March 2019 … Read more
Prison officer, 30, is jailed after becoming ‘blinded by love’ for fugitive inmate lover who she let stay at her home when he escaped jail Chloe Jones, 30, has been jailed after harbouring an escaped convict lover Jones struck up a relationship with Philip King while working at HMP Altcourse Pair were apprehended after being … Read more
The U.S. Supreme Court halted the execution of a Texas death row inmate one hour before he was scheduled to die Tuesday. Ruben Gutierrez, 43, had been set to die at 6 p.m. CDT at the Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville for the 1998 murder of an elderly mobile-home park owner during a robbery. But he … Read more
Kim Kardashian congratulated former inmate and music producer David Jassy for his new mixtape recorded at San Quentin State Prison with young prisoners. The 39-year-old reality star in a video posted by TMZ on Thursday told Jassy, 46, said that she wanted to congratulate him and ‘all of the young men’ at the prison who … Read more
A Missouri inmate on Tuesday became the first person to be executed since the coronavirus pandemic took hold. Walter Barton, 64, died by lethal injection for killing Gladys Kuehler, 81, in 1991. A jury recently said that ‘compelling’ new evidence made them feel ‘uncomfortable’ about the conviction and he had long maintained his innocence. His case … Read more
Britain’s youngest female murderer – who stabbed a stranger to death aged just 12 – loses bid to relax her jail regime after fantasizing about killing an inmate Sharon Carr brutally murdered Katie Rackliff by stabbing her 32 times in 1992 She is now eligible for release but authorities consider her a danger to society … Read more
SOCIETY A BIT OF A STRETCH: THE DIARIES OF A PRISONER by Chris Atkins (Atlantic Books £16.99, 336pp) Documentary maker Chris Atkins is in a rundown cell with a psychotic prisoner discussing the intricacies of quantum mechanics. He has more prison access than any journalist could dream of, but there’s just one catch: he is … Read more