44 h. ago Ecuador reveals how notorious gang leader 'Fito' hid in his hometown for 18 months after jailbreak

Ever since Ecuador’s most notorious gang leader vanished from his prison cell in January 2024, the mystery of his whereabouts has been the buzz of the nation

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47 h. ago What life is REALLY like for Lucy Letby behind bars: £33 a week to spend on sweets and chocolate, more time outside her cell...and TWICE as many visits as other prisoners

Letby has been given a cleaning job and her privileged status allows her a visit every week - twice as many as standard prisoners, a source said.

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3 d. ago Scots prison rapper films bizarre music videos from jail cell

Several clips have been uploaded to an Instagram account in recent days of an inmate at a Scots prison in a black balaclava rapping.

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3 d. ago Moment 'corrupt' prison officer tells inmate how to get away with using drugs behind bars as dire state of Britain's out

The video, taken on a phone a lag had smuggled into his cell, shows an officer confronting a prisoner as he stands outside their door - confronted with the stench of marijuana.

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5 d. ago ‘Helpless and trapped’: political prisoners stuck in Tehran jail with no way to flee bombings

Families of detained activists talk of their fear and confusion as Israeli missiles strike Evin prison in IranWhen Mehraveh Khandan heard about Israel’s evacuation order in Tehran last week, the first thing she thought of was her father. Reza Khandan, imprisoned for his human rights activism in 2024, was sitting in a cell in Tehran’s Evin prison on the edge of the evacuation zone.She fielded calls from her friends, who were breathless from the shock of the Israeli bombs as tens of thousands fled the Iranian capital. Her father, by contrast, had no way to flee. He was stuck. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Prison officer jailed for filming cell sex with lag reveals cryptic tattoo in the sun

Linda de Sousa Abreu was discovered engaging in sexual activities with a prisoner while she was married and working as a prison officer at HMP Wandsworth last year

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1 week ago Teen lag hurls boiling water at guard in suspected terror attack ‘inspired by Axel Rudakubana’

The teenage prisoner boiled water in his in-cell kettle and mixed it with sugar before throwing it at the officer - in an attack believed to be inspired by Axel Rudakubana

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1 week ago 'Hannibal the Cannibal' killer Robert Maudsley wants to return to 'Monster Mansion'

Robert Maudsley, 71, has made an official complaint about his transfer to Whitemoor prison, Cambs., and may yet return to his 'glass cage' cell in Wakefield jail

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1 week ago Pussy Riot’s founder built a ‘police state’ in an LA art gallery. Then the national guard arrived

Nadya Tolokonnikova tells the Guardian she felt she had ‘entered a wormhole’ when her police state exhibition was shut down – by the police stateNadya Tolokonnikova, the co-founder of the feminist art collective Pussy Riot, was sitting in a replica Russian prison cell in downtown Los Angeles when the police started shutting down the streets around the art museum.Police helicopters hovered overhead. Somewhere, through a loudspeaker, an officer delivered a tinny order to disperse. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Married prison guard who was filmed having sex with an inmate is FREED from jail after just five months

Married Linda de Sousa Abreu, 31, was sentenced to 15 months for having sex with  serial burglar Linton Weirich in his prison cell at HMP Wandsworth last June.

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2 w. ago Greta Thunberg is locked in an Israeli jail for migrants and will be dragged to court with other 'freedom flotilla' activists, her lawyer claims

Thunberg, alongside the 11 other activists on board are expected to appear in court on Tuesday morning after they were taken to the Israeli port city of Ashdod.

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3 w. ago Moment gobsmacked jailbird is arrested as he leaves prison after he was caught dealing cocaine from his cell

Samuel Watts, 34, had just been released HMP Kirkham after a three-year sentence for a drug dealing plot but only tasted freedom for a matter of seconds.

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3 w. ago Men appear in court over fires at properties linked to Keir Starmer

Provisional trial date set for next April for Roman Lavrynovych, 21, Stanislav Carpiuc, 26, and Petro Pochynok, 34Two men charged with arson over fires at homes and a car linked to Keir Starmer made their first appearance at a crown court on Friday.The Ukrainian national Roman Lavrynovych, 21, and the Ukrainian-born Romanian national Stanislav Carpiuc, 26, appeared at the Old Bailey in London via video link from Belmarsh prison. Petro Pochynok, 34, a Ukrainian national, refused to leave his cell and did not appear in court. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago 'Killer' mum leaves trail of eerie social media posts before being found dead

Lauren Ingrid Flanigan, 32, is believed to have stabbed her toddler Sophia Rose 'multiple' times - and just days later was discovered unconscious in her high security prison cell

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4 w. ago Chilling CCTV shows killer lags leaving cell after battering prisoner to death

The moment two grinning prisoners coldly left a fellow inmate's cell after battering him to death at a new prison was captured on chilling CCTV footage and shown to a court

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4 w. ago Chilling moment inmate caught grinning seconds before killing prisoner in cell

Two inmates convicted after killing 31-year-old Mahir Abdulrahman at new Serco prison in Leicestershire

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4 w. ago CCTV captures chilling moment prisoners smirk before killing fellow inmate in 37

CCTV cameras from inside HMP Fosse Way in Leicestershire caught the moments before and after two inmates brutally killed another inmate in his cell in just 37-seconds

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4 w. ago The surprising TV shows Rose West watches alone in her prison cell to pass the time

Rosemary West is one of only four women in Britain to be given a whole life order. Amid new reports of her life in prison, the Mirror takes a look at how the UK's most reviled woman passes the time behind bars

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4 w. ago Chilling moment prisoners smirk before killing fellow inmate in brutal 37

Ashirie Smith, 19, murdered Mahir Abdulrahman, 31, by brutally stamping on his head and neck inside his cell at HMP Fosse Way in Leicestershire on August 20 last year.

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last month Britain's 'most hated drill rapper' is hauled to court AGAIN from his prison cell after driving his £200,000 Lamborghini without insurance near Piccadilly Circus

Digga D was prosecuted over the incident in 2023 while languishing in HMP Brixton where he is currently serving more than three years for drugs offences.

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