7 h. ago Trump’s prison officials visited Alcatraz this week to assess reopening it, superintendent confirms

How feasible the president’s plan to revive the historic maximum security penitentiary might be is a matter of some debate among experts

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8 h. ago Female prison officer had fling 2 inmates – robber and crim who has 147mph police chase

A female police officer will face a plea hearing soon before facing trial later this year for allegedly having sexual relations with two inmates during her time working in a prison

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30 h. ago D.C. teen accidentally shoots and kills herself while filming social media video, cops say

A 14-year-old girl accidentally shot and killed herself while filming a social media video in Washington, D.C., police said.

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38 h. ago ‘Shakespeare would be writing for games today’: Cannes’ first video game Lili is a retelling of Macbeth

Translocating the Scottish play to Iran with help from the RSC, iNK Stories’ version focuses on a Lady Macbeth contending with an oppressive surveillance state The Cannes film festival isn’t typically associated with video games, but this year it’s playing host to an unusual collaboration. Lili is a co-production between the New York-based game studio iNK Stories (creator of 1979 Revolution: Black Friday, about a photojournalist in Iran) and the Royal Shakespeare Company, and it’s been turning heads with its eye-catching translocation of Macbeth to modern-day Iran.“It’s been such an incredible coup to have it as the first video game experience at Cannes,” says iNK Stories co-founder Vassiliki Khonsari. “People have gone in saying, I’m not familiar playing games, so I may just try it out for five minutes. [ ] But then once they’re in, there is this growing sense of empowerment that people from the film world are feeling.” Continue reading...

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45 h. ago Australian woman, 25, urges travellers to avoid the United States after she was detained, stripped and forced to spend the night in a federal prison for a ridiculous reason

Former NSW police officer Nikki Saroukos spent a sleepless night in a US prison cell after being denied entry to visit her husband, a US citizen and army officer.

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47 h. ago Prison officer, 46, who was caught with extreme donkey porn and child abuse images walks free from court

Peter Sugden, 46, from Falkirk, delivered 'intensive' rehab courses to sex offenders but has now been placed on the register himself following the grim discovery.

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47 h. ago Prison officer who ran sex offender rehab caught with sick images of children and animals

Peter Sugden's home was raided by police after he was caught in a 'sting' set up London-based group of paedophile hunter

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55 h. ago Shocking moment grinning female police officer is caught on camera saying 'let her rot' about vulnerable teenager

The female police office made the remark after the 19-year-old, who has a history of mental health issues, failed to open the door when she and three colleagues called round.

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60 h. ago Prison officer who sent indecent messages to fake profile of girl, 13, spared jail

Peter Sugden, 46, sent numerous indecent messages and sexual remarks to the fictional teenager over 16 days

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60 h. ago Prison officer who ran sex offender rehab caught with child abuse images and donkey porn

Peter Sugden's home was raided by police in June last year where they found extreme porn including a woman having sex with a donkey.

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61 h. ago Prison officer who messaged fake profile of girl, 13, while at work spared jail

Peter Sugden, 46, of Falkirk, sent numerous indecent messages and sexual remarks to the fictional teenager over the course of 16 days.

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61 h. ago Three free mobile phone games that have people 'hooked' for surprising reason

When you're looking to pass the time, you may turn your hand to a mobile phone game. However, there are three people are "hooked" to for a key reason

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63 h. ago 'I filmed my outfit at tube station and tannoy worker's comments stunned me'

Fashion stylist Talia-Brodie Francis was left fuming after a tannoy announcer made a 'rude' comment about her outfit while she was filming a video at a tube station

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65 h. ago Woman filming outfit video at station shocked by tannoy worker's 'rude' reaction

A woman has shared her shock after being told she wasn't allowed to film her outfit on the London underground – and travellers believe the rules are unfair

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69 h. ago Prison officers at youth jails 'warned to NOT take TVs away from disruptive teenagers'

Officers in youth jails have been left stunned by the instruction - which sees sets returned to lags, including rapists and murderers.

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2 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 Talks to settle £120m legal claim against Vodafone end without success

Sixty-two operators claim drastic cuts to commission rates caused franchise owners to run up huge personal debts Talks to settle a £120m legal claim between Vodafone and more than 60 of the mobile phone group’s franchise operators have ended without resolution – leaving the case potentially heading for the high court.The case was filed in December with the claimants accusing Vodafone of “unjustly enriching” itself by implementing a series of cost-cutting tactics as the UK emerged from initial Covid-19 restrictions in 2020. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Gary Neville showed his true colours after Wayne Rooney smashed up Ravel Morrison's phone

Gary Neville played peacemaker after Wayne Rooney lost the plot wth Manchester United team-mate Ravel Morrison over a mobile phone that had been taken off charge

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3 d. ago Moment cat caught smuggling Class A drugs into Costa Rican prison

Police officers have caught a cat carrying hard drugs into a prison in Costa Rica.

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3 d. ago Spain hit with nationwide mobile phone outage weeks after electricity blackout

Phone lines reportedly collapsed early on Tuesday morning following network updates by Telefónica

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