11 h. ago Chris Brown gives fellow inmate handwritten note before singing during jail stint

US singer Chris Brown has been released on £5 million bail after spending time at HMP Forest Bank in Salford, where he was held on a GBH charge

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14 h. ago Inmate manages to escape from a Louisiana jail for the second time in a year

Authorities say a Louisiana jail inmate who escaped from a parish jail about a year ago has accomplished the same feat again

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16 h. ago New Orleans' jail system was troubled decades before 10 inmates made an audacious escape

The recent jailbreak in New Orleans followed decades of dysfunction in the city's jail system and recent warnings that conditions were ripe for catastrophe

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60 h. ago Busted doors, cut bars, and a hole behind the toilet: Everything we know with 5 inmates still on the run after Louisiana jail escape

Three people have been arrested in connection with New Orleans jailbreak

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3 d. ago Key update on New Orleans jail break fiasco which saw 10 inmates make daring escape

The lags at the Orleans Parish Jail yanked open a faulty cell door, moved the toilet and slithered through the hole in one of the largest jail breaks in recent US history

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3 d. ago Busted doors, cut bars, and a hole behind the toilet: Everything we know with 6 inmates still on the run after Louisiana jail escape

Three employees have been suspended as sheriff claims that breakout may be tied up in politics around an upcoming sheriff’s election

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3 d. ago Maintenance worker arrested for aiding New Orleans jail escape says inmate threatened to ‘shank’ him

Jail worker charged with malfeasance over assisting escape

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3 d. ago New Orleans jail maintenance worker arrested on allegations he helped 10 inmates escape

Investigators arrested Sterling Williams, who allegedly admitted he turned water off to toilet covering hole in wallA maintenance worker at New Orleans’s jail has been arrested on allegations that he turned water off to a toilet covering a hole in the wall that 10 men who escaped from the facility early Friday used for their getaway.Investigators arrested 33-year-old jail maintenance worker Sterling Williams after he allegedly admitted to officials that one of the men “advised him to turn the water off in the cell” before the men slipped away through the hole in the wall at the Orleans Justice Center (OJC), the Louisiana attorney general’s office said in a statement. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago A New Orleans sheriff's office staffer has been arrested following the escape of 10 jail inmates

Authorities have arrested an Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office employee following the escape of 10 inmates

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4 d. ago Busted doors, cut bars, and a hole behind the toilet: Everything we know with 7 inmates still on the run after Louisiana jail escape

Three employees have been suspended as sheriff claims breakout may be tied up in politics around an upcoming sheriff’s election

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5 d. ago Foreign inmates could be deported after serving only 12 per cent of their sentence to free up space in our jails, under proposed new 'early removal scheme'

The 'early removal scheme' allowing foreign national offenders (pictured, file photo) to be deported after 50 per cent of their sentence should be changed to 30 per cent, it will recommend.

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5 d. ago Reward increased for capture of escaped New Orleans inmates as 7 remain on the lam

Officials have increased the reward for the capture of seven inmates who escaped from a New Orleans jail by fleeing through a hole behind a toilet

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5 d. ago ‘It’s a scandal’: Fury as inmates trapped on indefinite jail terms excluded from scheme to free up prison space

Exclusive: Seven in 10 recalled IPP prisoners have committed no further crime but are held for more than two years on average. Releasing them would free up a prison, but they have been left out of the government’s scheme to reduce the recall population

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6 d. ago Critics blast hourslong gap before officials disclosed 10 inmates' escape from New Orleans jail

At least a dozen law enforcement agencies are searching for seven of the 10 men who broke out of a New Orleans jail by fleeing through a hole behind a toilet and scaling a wall

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6 d. ago Prison officer who 'f***** her life up' over behind bars affair with inmate wants to rekindle their romance after her release from jail, his mother claims

EXCLUSIVE: Jordan Stones and Morgan Farr Varney would sneak off for sex sessions in a cupboard while she was meant to be guarding him at while working at HMP Lindholme.

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7 d. ago Busted doors, cut bars, and a hole behind the toilet: Everything we know about 10 inmates who escaped Louisiana jail

Three employees have been suspended as sheriff claims breakout may be tied up in politics around an upcoming sheriff’s election

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7 d. ago Ten Louisiana inmates escape by derailing jail cell doors and squeezing through bathroom wall in suspected inside job

One inmate has been captured since escape was discovered, according to state police

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7 d. ago Sheriff says there are indications 10 inmates who escaped New Orleans jail had inside help

Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson says there are indications that the ten inmates who escaped from a New Orleans jail received help in their escape from people in the department

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7 d. ago Prison officer, 27, caught kissing drug dealer inmate on her own bodyworn camera is spared jail

Disturbing bodyworn camera footage shows Tracy Boateng, 27, lean in multiple times as she makes the inappropriate contact with Vincent Ojo at HMP Pentonville.

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8 d. ago Former West Virginia jail supervisor sentenced in coverup of assault that led to inmate's death

A former West Virginia jail supervisor has been sentenced to more than 17 years in federal prison for his role in the coverup of an assault by other corrections officers that led to an inmate’s death

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