14 h. ago Tiger King star Joe Exotic marries fellow inmate behind bars

The former tiger trader, who is serving a 21-year prison sentence, announced his engagement to Jorge Marquez last October

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16 h. ago Tiger King star Joe Exotic introduces younger husband as he marries fellow inmate

Tiger King star and former zookeeper Joe Exotic has tied the knot while he is in behind bars in the US, with fellow inmate Jorge Marquez becoming husband number six

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16 h. ago Tiger King star Joe Exotic ties the knot for the sixth time from jail as he serves 21

The Netflix star has shocked followers announcing his sixth marriage to fellow inmate Jorge Flores Maldonado, as he serves 21 year prison sentence

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19 h. ago Netflix's Tiger King Joe Exotic marries again behind bars as he ties knot with fellow inmate

Tiger King star Joe Exotic has married again while serving his 21-year prison sentence, with the Netflix star tying the knot with fellow inmate Jorge Flores Maldonado.

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20 h. ago Tiger King Joe Exotic marries fellow inmate as they tie the knot behind bars

Tiger King star Joe Exotic has tied the knot once again as the jailed zookeeper said 'I do' while behind bars

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21 h. ago Joe Exotic is married! Tiger King star ties the knot with fellow inmate in prison

The Tiger King star, 62, revealed on Tuesday he got married to fellow inmate Jorge Flores Maldonado.

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35 h. ago The Guardian view on Pope Francis: an outsider who was a force for good in the world | Editorial

The Argentine pontiff was a vital progressive influence on issues such as migration, and fought for a more merciful, less rigid Catholic churchDefying doctors’ orders to rest following his battle with double pneumonia, a weak Pope Francis last week visited Rome’s Regina Coeli prison, where he blew kisses towards inmates and spent half an hour in discussion with some of those incarcerated. Sadly, this Maundy Thursday encounter turned out to be one of the last acts of a supremely hardworking papacy. In retrospect, its location was entirely appropriate.Throughout his 12 years in Saint Peter’s chair, Francis sought admirably to refocus the Catholic church’s energies on the marginalised, while challenging the power of entrenched interests. Coming, as he put it, “from the ends of the earth”, the first non-European pontiff of modern times was an outsider pope and a radical one. Within the church, the Argentine was a sometimes spikily direct reformer; outside it, he was a signific...

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65 h. ago Katie Piper says women she met in US prison were left in tears over her acid attack ordeal

Katie Piper has been filming a documentary in a New Orleans prison, and the inmates had some interesting theories about how she came to be so badly scarred

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66 h. ago Would you check into a prison hotel? South Korean 'jail' charges guests £100 to become overnight inmates

The hotel, in Hongcheon, around 80km east of Seoul, mimics the daily existence of criminals serving time in prison says it's the ultimate digital detox and guests almost never regret checking in.

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68 h. ago Over £10million of payouts handed to prison guards in last five years after violent inmate attacks

Around 202 injured officers have received payouts from the Ministry of Justice since 2019/20, it comes in the wake of Hashem Abedi's brutal attack on three prison guards at HMP Frankland

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3 d. ago Prison guards handed £10million in payouts in last 5 years over violent inmate attacks

Some 202 prison officers injured by inmates have been handed Ministry of Justice payouts since 2019/20 – totalling £10.3 million and averaging at £51,000 per person

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4 d. ago Trump news at a glance: Maryland senator says Ábrego García moved from notorious El Salvador prison

Senator Chris Van Hollen accuses El Salvador’s government of planting margarita glasses to undermine his trip – key US politics stories from Friday 18 April at a glanceMaryland senator Chris Van Hollen revealed that Kilmar Ábrego García had been moved from El Salvador’s notorious Cecot prison – where he was sharing a cell with 25 other inmates – to a detention center with better conditions.Van Hollen met with Ábrego García, whom the Trump administration admits it mistakenly deported, and said that he had been left “traumatized” after facing threats in the Cecot facility. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Death row inmates sue to stop Trump from sending them to prison that housed Timothy McVeigh and the Unabomber

Attorney says Trump administration is ‘just assuming they are the worst of the worst by virtue of their death sentences’

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4 d. ago Investigation launched after inmate at Forest Bank prison dies

An investigation is underway - it's the latest in a series of fatalities at the privately-run prison over recent years

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4 d. ago Murderer killed after being smacked over head with dumbbell inside jail gym

John Mansfield was killed while serving a life sentence at HMP Whitemoor in Cambridgeshire after he was jailed in 2014 for the murder of his elderly neighbour Ann Alfonso

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5 d. ago Faith and festivity: The best Easter images from around the world in 2025

From chimpanzees finding treat-filled eggs to the Pope visiting inmates in a Rome prison, here are this year’s best Easter moments in pictures

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6 d. ago 10 guards charged over the fatal beating of a New York inmate, including 2 with murder

Ten prison guards were charged in connection with the fatal beating of a 22-year-old prison inmate, including two charged with murder

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6 d. ago 'I was a sexy prison guard showered with gifts by inmates – their wives hated me'

A sexy prison guard who grappled with temptation every day as prisoners flocked to her with gifts and compliments has opened up about how she had to 'constantly reject' advances inmates made

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8 d. ago Manchester Arena families in ‘disbelief’ that ‘evil’ Hashem Abedi was able to attack prison officers

Inmates in high-security units banned from kitchens after prison officers attacked by Manchester Arena bomber with hot oil and blades

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9 d. ago Ban inmates from cooking after Hashem Abedi assault, says prison union

Chair of prison workers body says copycat incidents must be prevented after attack by convicted terroristThe union representing prison officers has said inmates should be banned from cooking in jail, with staff fearing copycat incidents after the brother of the Manchester Arena bomber attacked three officers at HMP Frankland.Hashem Abedi, a convicted terrorist who was jailed for life after helping his suicide bomber brother Salman Abedi carry out the Manchester Arena attack in 2017, is alleged to have set upon staff with hot cooking oil and improvised blades. Continue reading...

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