3 d. ago Former aide to de facto leader of Georgia being held as ‘personal prisoner’, mother claims

Marina Ramazashvili says son, Giorgi Bachiashvili, was the victim of a ‘vendetta’ by billionaire politicianThe mother of a jailed former aide to Bidzina Ivanishvili has accused the de facto leader of Georgia of treating her son as his “personal prisoner” as she appealed to the west for help.Marina Ramazashvili, a renowned ophthalmologist in Georgia, said Giorgi Bachiashvili, who has allegedly been beaten in his prison cell, was the victim of a “vendetta” waged by the billionaire politician. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Mum helped her 'violent' gangster boyfriend run coke ring from inside UK prison cell

Lisa Prescott, who was in a relationship with criminal James Close, admitted being part of a cocaine ring which dealt thousands of pounds of drugs. She was caught out by DNA

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5 d. ago South Africa to reopen Steve Biko inquest 48 years after death in police custody

Death of anti-apartheid activist in 1977 after police beat him into a coma sparked outrage across the worldSouth African prosecutors will reopen an inquest into the death of the prominent anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko, nearly 50 years after he died in police custody.Biko, the founder of South Africa’s Black Consciousness Movement, died in a prison cell in 1977 aged just 30, after being beaten into a coma by police who had arrested him nearly a month earlier. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Mia O’Brien's mum launches fresh bid to free daughter from 'hellhole' Dubai prison

Mia O'Brien, 23, was handed a 25-year sentence after being found with 50g of cocaine in Dubai and is thought to be serving her time in a hellhole prison, sharing a cell with up to six other inmates

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1 week ago 'I gave birth as a prisoner, I was handcuffed and guards watched me breastfeed'

Two women have opened up about their experience of giving birth during a prison sentence - from being 'left in a cell during labour' and handcuffed at the hospital, to having guards closely watch them while breastfeeding

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1 week ago The beautiful tribute to an innocent and caring mum killed in her own home by stranger

Lisa Fraser was found dead at her home, and a man who was arrested for her murder was found hanged in his prison cell two weeks later

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1 week ago Epstein document dump blows huge hole in Pam Bondi's 'missing minute' theory as pressure mounts for Trump to disclose the truth

A newly-released minute of surveillance footage from outside of Jeffrey Epstein's prison cell has blown a huge hole in Attorney General Pam Bondi's explanation of footage that was previously released.

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2 w. ago Gunman who assassinated prison officer who exposed his relationship with female guard is jailed for 45 years

A criminal who shot dead the prison officer who found an illicit phone in his jail cell has been jailed for life with a minimum 45 years before parole.

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2 w. ago Woman killed in her own home died from 'multiple sharp force injuries including a cut throat'

A man admitted to police that he had killed Lisa Fraser in Pembroke Dock, but was found hanged in a prison cell two weeks later. An inquest into the death of Mrs Fraser has now been opened

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2 w. ago Prison guard seen coming out of cell with two inmates is jailed

Aimee Duke, 26, is the third prison guard to be convicted over relationships with inmates at the same jail

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3 w. ago El Chapo whines about 'lack of sun' in prison as he longs for beauty queen wife

The former Mexican drug lord has many concerns about his time spent in an isolated prison cell, having filed an amended federal complaint as he misses the sun and his wife

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3 w. ago Albanian murderer posts TikTok video from his British jail cell begging to be sent to prison in his home country 'because the food is terrible and he wants to see his family'

Eugert Merizaj, 32, has been repeatedly posting on social media after being handed a 32-year sentence in May 2022 for the shotgun killing of rival drug dealer Hemawand Ali Hussein.

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3 w. ago Gooch gang boss Lee Amos held lag's hand in jail as he clutched his chest and died

Lee Amos, 48, collapsed in his cell at HMP Oakwood, a privately-operated category C prison in Staffordshire, on April 22 last year after suffering a heart attack

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4 w. ago NADINE DORRIES: Lucy Letby's old friends have told me the truth about her. Forget what you've read, this is who she REALLY is

Yet another week has passed in which Lucy Letby, 35, has had to while away endless hours in the prison cell where she is condemned to spend the rest of her life.

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4 w. ago Scouse gangster Sam Walker held in prison cell for hours after cops storm hospital

A gangster has been arrested on suspicion of possessing a firearm after armed police stormed a hospital in Merseyside, with the influencer claiming it was all down to 'trolls'

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4 w. ago For Putin, an outbreak of peace means certain death. Like any gangster, he has only one hope of survival, writes WILLIAM BROWDER

For Vladimir Putin, an outbreak of peace means certain death - by assassination, overthrow and execution, or in an international prison cell as a war criminal.

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last month 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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