4 h. 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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1 week ago My message from prison: Just Stop Oil may be ending civil disruption, but the struggle must go on | Indigo Rumbelow

We forced the government to take some action, but still it closes it eyes to the impending climate collapse. A new method of confrontation is neededIndigo Rumbelow is co-founder of Just Stop Oil. She is currently on remand in HMP StyalAfter three years, Just Stop Oil is ending its campaign of non-violent civil disruption: we are hanging up the high-vis. But this does not mean the resistance is over. Sitting here in a prison cell in HMP Styal, I am still demanding an end to oil and gas. Every prison key that rattles, every door that is bolted shut, every letter that is read by the prison staff – it all reminds me that 15 Just Stop Oil supporters are currently locked up for refusing to obey governments whose climate inaction is frankly murderous.There has been some progress. The Labour government was elected last year on a manifesto including the pledge that they will “not issue new licences to explore new [oil and gas] fields”. This is a victory for civil resistance and the climate m...

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2 w. ago Female prison officer who filmed cell sex with lag made wild plans for his release

Linda De Sousa Abreu, 30, shot to global infamy when she was featured in a viral video clip of a female prison officer having a steamy affair with an inmate in his cell

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2 w. ago Riddle of Jeffrey Esptein's grim final days and frantic behaviour before death

The disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein had sleepless nights in the corner of his Manhattan prison cell and complained to prison guards he was being treated like a "bad guy"

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2 w. ago Young man dies in Parc Prison after smoking 'bad batch' of spice

'Loving son' Lewis Petryzyn was found unresponsive in his cell at HMP Parc Prison on April 15, 2022

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3 w. ago Killers could serve shorter jail terms for good behaviour in radical overhaul of sentencing, justice minister signals

Shabana Mahmood warned ‘short sentence reform on its own isn’t going to be enough’ to ease the overcrowding crisis as she opened a new 1,500-cell prison

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3 w. ago Kristi Noem criticized for filming video in front of caged prisoners in El Salvador

Noem stood in front of a jam-packed prison cell filled with men in uniform clothing and haircuts to threaten other migrants who enter the U.S. illegally

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3 w. ago Charles Bronson belts out Frank Sinatra at pub karaoke live from his prison cell

The notorious prisoner sang Frank Sinatra's My Way during the live link-up from his cell at HMP Long Lartin in Evesham, Worcestershire, and dedicated the track to Ronnie Kray

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4 w. ago Haul of weapons found in prison cell searches during drones and drugs crackdown

Four men were arrested after a drone was spotted flying near HMP Manchester

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4 w. ago I had to drink my own urine when I was chained up in Thai prison cell for 10 days and beaten by guards after being spiked with psychoactive drug

Lewis Green, 22, was arrested on January 24 - the day before he was due to fly home from a eight-week solo trip - and suffered fractured ribs, a broken wrist and foot lacerations.

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4 w. ago Pensioner kept out of trouble for more than 60 years but now he's in a prison cell

Graham Jones, 65, had never been in trouble with the law before he entered into a 'lucrative business' dealing drugs worth tens of thousands of pounds from his home in Birkenhead

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