After a 30-year career in property management, Lynn Jackson had been looking forward to retiring in December. So it’s a cruel irony that the 65-year-old has been denied access to her pension because it is trapped in a frozen property fund. Ordinary investors have around £13.5 billion of savings in property funds, which typically own … Read more
A Uighur prisoner has sent a message from inside a detention camp to claim Chinese authorities are instructing children as young as 13 to ‘regret and surrender’. Merdan Ghappar, who was once a model for online retailer Taobao, provided a chilling first-hand account of China’s highly secure and secretive detention system. The 31-year-old was able … Read more
Prisons and jails number among the top hotspots for coronavirus outbreaks in the US – and new Harvard University research suggests that for every one person who goes into a jail, another two people in the communities they return to develop COVID-19. By the end of last month at least 78,526 people had tested positive … Read more
The gamble that didn’t pay off: Indonesian prisoner is left with gruesome injuries after being whipped for violating Sharia law by betting in conservative Aceh region The Aceh Islamic Sharia Court administered him 17 lashes in Lhokseumawe City Shocking pictures show dark red marks on the man’s back and down his arm The defendant was arrested … Read more
Police launch manhunt as prisoner, 21, due in court escapes custody after claiming he was ill then fleeing hospital Police have launched a manhunt for a prisoner due in court in Manchester today 21-year-old claimed he was ill before escaping Tameside General Hospital Suspect is charged with two counts of burglary, three counts of theft of … Read more
Coronavirus prisoner death toll hits NINE as 107 inmates and 19 staff test positive – after government announces 4,000 ‘low-risk’ convicts will be freed Three of the dead prisoners were inmates at HMP Littlehey in Cambridgeshire Others at Birmingham, Manchester, Altcourse, Belmarsh, Whatton, Low Newton 107 prisoners have tested positive in 38 jails plus 19 … Read more
First UK prisoner catches coronavirus: HMP Manchester inmate is taken to hospital after testing positive for killer bug as 13 convicts and four staff are put in isolation Inmate at Strangeways prison in Manchester is now being treated for the virus No other prisoners or wardens tested positive and visits continuing as normal Prison service … Read more
A British-Iranian prisoner has revealed how soldiers are wearing worn out masks and no gloves as the Iranian prison system collapses into coronavirus chaos. Anoosheh Ashoori, who is being held in Tehran on spying charges, also said no one checked his temperature when he was moved to a bedbug riddled ward in Evin prison without … Read more
The repeated escape attempts and day to days lives of prisoners inside one of Nazi Germany’s most notorious prisoner of war camps have been revealed with a collection of photographs. German photographer Johnannes Lange was tasked with documenting every failed Allied escape from Colditz Camp in Leipzig during the Second World War. Among the shots … Read more
A woman who was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder after getting drunk and knifing her partner in the heart during an argument has spoken of the moment she had to tell her young son she was behind bars for killing his father. Tonight’s episode of Channel 4 show Prison, featured Lexi Heckles, 40, from … Read more