4 h. ago Murderer who slit inmate's throat and said he'd happily die in prison found dead in jail

WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT: Brian Wade was already in prison on three life sentences when he was found dead last month, having admitted that he would happily die while in prison during a hearing in June

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28 h. ago 'Queen' of 'lost African tribe' living in Scots woods reveals past life in prison

'Queen Nandi' is a mother of seven, and self proclaimed ruler of the Kingdom of Kubala - a tribe that she shares with her husband 'King Atehene' in the forest in Jedburgh.

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7 d. ago Grim details emerge about Erin Patterson's isolated prison life

Patterson, 50, was found guilty of poisoning three of her in-laws - and attempting to kill another - with a lunch laced with death cap mushrooms in July 2023.

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8 d. ago Teen tortured for weeks as eyes gouged out and scalp removed in UK's worst murder

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: James Patterson Smith was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of 17-year-old Kelly Anne Bates, who he tortured for weeks in one of the UK's most shocking crimes

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8 d. ago Erin Patterson court LIVE updates: Evil mushroom murderer's bleak life behind bars is laid bare as prison boss exposes how she has become a hermit

Follow Daily Mail's live coverage of death cap mushroom murderer Erin Patterson's pre-sentence hearing at the Supreme Court of Victoria.

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1 week ago Menendez brothers’ parole hearings to begin as duo who killed parents 36 years ago push for prison release: Live

In 1996, Erik and Lyle Menendez were sentenced to life in prison with no parole for 1989 murders but became eligible for release earlier this year

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1 week ago Menendez brothers face parole hearings as they seek release after three decades

Erik and Lyle Menendez, sentenced to life over 1989 killings of parents, eligible for parole after judge’s May decisionThe Menendez brothers are scheduled to face separate parole hearings beginning Thursday, marking the closest they have been to winning freedom after spending nearly 30 years in prison in the slaying of their parents inside their Los Angeles home.Erik and Lyle Menendez were sentenced in 1996 to life in prison for killing their father, Jose Menendez, and mother, Kitty Menendez, in their Beverly Hills mansion in 1989. They were 18 and 21 at the time. Defense attorneys argued the brothers acted out of self-defense after years of sexual abuse by their father, while prosecutors said the brothers killed their parents for a multimillion-dollar inheritance. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Menendez brothers’ parole hearings to begin as duo who killed parents 35 years ago push for prison release: Live

In 1996, Erik and Lyle Menendez were sentenced to life in prison with no parole for 1989 murders but became eligible for release earlier this year

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1 week ago Menendez brothers’ parole hearing to begin as duo who killed parents 30 years ago push for prison release: Live

Erik and Lyle Menendez were sentenced to life in prison with no parole in 1996 for 1989 murders but became eligible for release earlier this year

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1 week ago Menendez brothers’ parole hearings to begin as duo who killed parents 30 years ago push for prison release: Live

Erik and Lyle Menendez were sentenced to life in prison with no parole in 1996 for 1989 murders but became eligible for release earlier this year

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1 week ago Supporting freedom of expression is not wrong, Jimmy Lai’s lawyer tells court

Closing arguments made in Hong Kong media mogul’s national security trial, which has lasted more than 140 daysA lawyer for Jimmy Lai has argued that it is not wrong to support freedom of expression, as he began his final argument in the prominent Hong Kong democracy activist and newspaper founder’s landmark national security trial.The barrister Robert Pang is representing Lai in his fight against charges of colluding with foreign forces to endanger national security and conspiring with others to issue seditious publications. Lai, 77, faces up to life in prison if convicted under a national security law imposed by Beijing after anti-government protests in 2019. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Florida man who fatally stabbed friend over Trump convicted of second

Donald Jamesbrown Henry and Shawn Popp got into a fight over ‘Trump going bankrupt’ when the latter was attackedA Florida man who fatally stabbed a friend during an argument in 2022 over Donald Trump’s businesses having gone bankrupt, is facing possibly spending the rest of his life in prison after being convicted of murder.Donald Jamesbrown Henry, 38, awaits a sentencing hearing tentatively scheduled for October after jurors found him guilty Friday of second-degree murder in the killing of Shawn Popp, whose death came to be regarded by some as an example of the havoc that politics can wreak on interpersonal relationships in the US. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago University colleagues warned of Bryan Kohberger’s sexist, creepy behavior before Idaho murders

Kohberger was sentenced to life in prison without parole last month

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2 w. ago The GHOST that walks on Death Row: US prisoner jailed for murder he didn't commit reveals inmates saw a SPIRIT 'walk down the hallway' whenever there was an execution

In the fragile space between life and death, Florida prison inmates sit in a damp jail cell waiting to learn their fate. 

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2 w. ago British woman 'raped' by Nicholas Rossi accuses CPS of 'victim blaming' after refusing to prosecute him

Nicholas Rossi, 38, is facing life in prison after he was found guilty of sexually assaulting a former girlfriend in 2008 last week.

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2 w. ago Lucy Letby 'has new hope' as lawyer says baby killer 'was broken' and 'hopeless'

Lucy Letby's lawyer Mark McDonald has said he is "not naive" and knows the serial baby killer is "guilty", but he is determined to free her from prison where she is currently serving 15 whole-life sentences

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2 w. ago Murderer Bryan Kohberger whines that he is being taunted by other inmates while being held in Idaho prison

The 30-year-old was sentenced to life in prison for the 2022 slayings of four University of Idaho students

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2 w. ago Ashley Biden caught husband on camera with ANOTHER WOMAN, as grim new divorce details emerge

Former First Daughter Ashley Biden, 44, filed for a divorce from her plastic surgeon husband Howard Krein, 58, in a Philadelphia court on Monday after 13 years of marriage.

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2 w. ago ‘Death always feels imminent’: a moving Netflix documentary on prison, music and forgiveness

In Songs from the Hole, a man convicted of murder when he was a teenager finds healing in music during his sentenceIn 2014, a sergeant at a California state prison sent James “JJ’88” Jacobs, who was 25 at the time, to “the hole” – solitary confinement in a 6-by-6 cell. One bunk, one strip of a window. Jacobs had already been incarcerated for a decade by then; at 15, he was given a double life sentence for second-degree murder. Alone in the hole, Jacobs thought, as he always did, about the most devastating month of his life, April 2004: on the 16th, he shot and killed a fellow teenager outside a nightclub in his home town of Long Beach, California. Three days later, another young man shot and killed his beloved older brother Victor. For years, Jacobs was caught in a terrible cycle of grief – for what he had done, for what had been done to him.In the hole, Jacobs would lie on the floor, eyes closed, and imagine his life outside prison. He’d make beats by pounding on his bunk or chest....

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2 w. ago Jamie Rothwell's life in Monster Mansion revealed as gangster faces hell in prison

'He knows what is ahead of him - years in high security conditions in very confined space, with a mind numbing routine that he will have to make the best of'

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