2 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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29 h. ago Watch: Justice secretary update on prisons review as chemical castration considered for sex offenders

The justice secretary has said that many sentencing reforms aimed at easing prison overcrowding have been accepted by the government, including chemical castration for sex offenders.

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31 h. ago Watch live: Justice secretary update on prisons review as chemical castration considered for sex offenders

Watch live as the justice secretary delivers an update on UK prisons reform, in what is the biggest shakeup of sentencing in more than 30 years, in Parliament on Thursday (22 May).

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34 h. ago UK politics live: Net migration to UK plummets by more than 400,000 in a year

Difference between the number of people moving to the UK and leaving the country has fallen to the lowest level since the pandemic

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34 h. ago UK politics live: Chemical castration considered for sex offenders as review reveals prison capacity crisis

An independent review has recommended that prisoners be released for good behaviour and shorter sentences of less than 12 months to be scrapped

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3 d. ago Legal bid over plans to use pepper spray in young offender institutions

Charity Howard League for Penal Reform has sent a letter before claim to Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood urging her to withdraw the decision.

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3 d. ago Murderer freed from prison early because he was 'polite' stabbed his great

Direece Roche, 30, was released in 2023 after serving 12 years of a life sentence imposed in 2011 for stabbing an innocent bystander to death outside a New Year's Day party.

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3 d. ago At least 50 Venezuelans sent to El Salvador prison entered US legally, report finds – US politics live

Libertarian thinktank says ‘dozens of legal immigrants were stripped of their status and imprisoned in El Salvador’At least 50 migrants sent to El Salvador prison entered US legally, report findsJD Vance extended an invitation to Pope Leo XIV to visit the United States during a meeting at the Vatican on Monday ahead of a flurry of US-led diplomatic efforts to make progress on a ceasefire in Russia’s war in Ukraine, the Associated Press reports. Vance gave the first American pope a letter from Donald Trump and the first lady inviting him. The Chicago-born pope took the letter and put it on his desk and was heard saying “at some point”, in the video footage of the meeting provided by Vatican Media. Vance, who converted to Catholicism in 2019, also gave the Augustinian pope a copy of two of St Augustine’s most seminal works, The City of God and On Christian Doctrine, the vice-president’s office said. Another gift: A Chicago Bears T-shirt with Leo’s name on it. “As you can probably imag...

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9 d. ago More emergency prison measures revealed as jails to run out in FIVE months

In a speech from Downing Street on Wednesday, Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood said three new prisons will be built as part of a 'record prison expansion' backed by £4.7billion

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9 d. ago Cannibal killer who murdered pals and ate them freed for chilling reason

Denis Gorin, 45, was sentenced to 22 years in a penal colony in 2018 for stabbing a man to death before eating some of his flesh. He was later freed to fight for Russia in the war in Ukraine

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1 week ago Menendez brothers resentencing hearing to begin after months of delays

LA judge will decide whether Erik and Lyle Menendez should be freed after serving 30 years in prison for murderAfter months of delays, a hearing starts on Tuesday to decide whether Erik and Lyle Menendez should get a chance at freedom after serving nearly 30 years in prison for the double murder of their parents.A Los Angeles judge will preside over the resentencing hearing that is expected to last two days. If he shortens their sentences, the brothers would still need approval from the state’s parole board to get out of prison. They could then potentially go free on time served. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago One of Alcatraz’s last living inmates speaks out on Trump’s plan to reopen prison

Charlie Hopkins believes president is not serious about reviving storied San Francisco jail

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2 w. ago By calling a genocide a genocide, Andor just made its most political point yet

Tony Gilroy’s Star Wars show has repeatedly felt like it was ripped from today’s headlines – but Mon Mothma’s radical speech was written two years agoWarning: this contains spoilers for episode nine of Andor season twoSince it started in 2022, the Star Wars spin-off Andor has proved an unexpectedly bolshie addition to the Disney-owned mega-franchise. By portraying worker uprisings, surveillance states, sexual violence and prison industrial complexes, showrunner Tony Gilroy added fresh political nuance and human stakes to George Lucas’s endless galactic civil war.And since its April premiere, the show’s second and final season has only doubled down. In the first episode, viewers saw smarmy spin doctors from the Empire’s “Ministry of Enlightenment” discuss how to “weaponise” galactic opinion to manufacture public approval for ethnic cleansing on the planet Ghorman. News anchors parrot Imperial talking points, while the military plots a long game: to provoke an uprising from “rebels yo...

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2 w. ago Trump plans to jumpstart one of the nation’s worst prisons. Officials may have to boot threatened seabirds to do it

The tourist destination is home to thousands of seabirds that rely on the island to nest and raise their families

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2 w. ago Critics blast Trump’s Alcatraz plan over cost: Everything you need to know about reopening the notorious prison

Trump has directed officials to reopen a ‘substantially enlarged and rebuilt’ prison on Alcatraz Island - but is it really viable?

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2 w. ago Trump orders reopening of Alcatraz prison for ‘most ruthless offenders’

Plan to expand and reuse long-shuttered penitentiary off San Francisco described as ‘not serious’ by Nancy PelosiDonald Trump has said he is directing the administration to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on an island off San Francisco that has been closed for more than 60 years.California lawmakers called the idea “absurd on its face” and part of the US president’s strategy of political distraction. Other officials pointed to the closure of the prison complex in 1963, known for its brutal conditions, due to operational expense and the high number of (unsuccessful) escape attempts. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Trump orders reopening and expansion of notorious Alcatraz prison

The former federal penitentiary is located on a remote San Francisco island and closed in 1963

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2 w. ago Trump orders reopening and expansion of Alcatraz to house country’s ‘most ruthless’ offenders

The former federal penitentiary is located on a remote San Francisco island and closed in 1963

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2 w. ago Trump says he has ordered reopening and expansion of Alcatraz to house country’s ‘most ruthless’ offenders

The federal penitentiary is located on a San Francisco island and closed in 1963

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4 w. ago Pepper spray to be used in young offender institutions from this summer

Pava spray will be made available ‘in limited circumstances’ to a select number of staff at three centres holding under-18s.

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