40 h. ago Prison officer, 46, caught performing sex act on inmate on her own bodyworn camera is jailed

Rebecca Pinckard, 46, had the 'intimate encounter' with serving prisoner and convicted drug dealer Erion Nakdi, 42, in a store cupboard at HMP Highpoint in Suffolk.

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42 h. ago Prison officer jailed after bodycam caught her sex act with inmate

Rebecca Pinckard, 46, had an 'intimate encounter' with serving prisoner in a store cupboard

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42 h. ago Prison officer jailed after sex act with inmate caught on her own bodycam

Rebecca Pinckard, 46, had the 'intimate encounter' with serving prisoner in a store cupboard

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44 h. ago Female prison officer jailed after bodycam caught sex act with inmate

Rebecca Pinckard was accused of embarking on a secret relationship with the prisoner at HMP Highpoint in Stradishall, Suffolk

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45 h. ago Prison officer jailed after 'performing sex act' on lag during 'secret fling'

Prison officer Rebecca Pinkard, 46, embarked on a fling with an inmate at HMP Highpoint in Suffolk, and was said to have 'performed oral sex on that prisoner'

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5 d. ago Death on the inside: as a prison officer, I saw how the system perpetuates violence

A rise of murders is traumatising inmates and staff, and making life harder for staff. But even in prison, violence isn’t inevitableThere are hotspots for violence in prison. The exercise yard, the showers. There are peak times, too. Mealtimes and association periods are particularly volatile.But first thing in the morning is not when you expect to hear an alarm bell. I certainly didn’t, at 6am in my office on the residential wing of a high-security prison in late 2018. All prisoners were locked up at that time. But overcrowding has long been a problem in UK prisons, and keeping three men in cells designed for one can be a recipe for disaster. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Families of prisoners in Venezuela wait in anguish as promised releases trickle

Yaxzodara Lozada has woken up freezing on a sidewalk outside a Venezuelan prison, hoping her husband, a police officer detained in November, will be released

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5 d. ago 3 inmates dead, corrections officer and others injured in Georgia prison fight, police say

Police in Georgia say three inmates were killed and a corrections officer and several other inmates were injured when a fight broke out at a state prison

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6 d. ago Secret heartache of Traitors star Matthew Hyndman whose prison officer uncle was shot dead by the New IRA as he drove to work in 2012

Faithful Matthew Hyndman has suffered the grief of losing a loved-one in the most horrific way possible when his uncle was killed by New IRA gunmen.

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9 d. ago Female prison officer who became pregnant with inmate's baby after starting a relationship with him while he was on overnight release is spared jail

Sarah Barnett, 33, who worked as a member of operational support staff at HMP Sudbury in Derbys, spent two nights with Scott Taylor after he was temporarily freed from the Category D prison.

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1 week ago Prison officer 'had intimate relationships with prisoners and smuggled drugs into jail'

Kayleigh Robson, 29, allegedly struck up inappropriate romances with prisoners at HMP Peterborough over a nine-month period, before getting involved in an alleged money laundering plot

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1 week ago Female prison officer accused of 'intimate relationships' with prisoners

A prison officer accused of smuggling drugs, laundering money, and having "intimate relationships with prisoners" could soon trade her badge for a cell as she faces explosive misconduct charges

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1 week ago Female prison officer denies relationships with inmates and smuggling cannabis in UK jail

Kayleigh Robson, 29, appeared at Cambridge Crown Court accused of misconduct, smuggling cannabis and tobacco, and money laundering at HMP Peterborough. She pleaded not guilty

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1 week ago Female prison officer, 29, had intimate relationships with inmates and smuggled drugs and tobacco into jail, court hears

Kayleigh Robson, 29, struck up inappropriate romances with prisoners at HMP Peterborough over a nine-month period, it is alleged.

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2 w. ago Jailed Islamist killer who won payout under ECHR rules for solitary confinement held prison officer hostage at knife point and told him: 'I've killed two people and I'll kill you'

Drug gangster turned jihadist sympathiser Fuad Awale, 38, used European rights laws to argue that his being locked up alone was unfair - despite the move following his hostage taking terror attack.

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2 w. ago Fury at 'sick joke' £240,000 taxpayer bill for Islamist double killer under ECHR rules after he whined that putting him in solitary for taking prison officer hostage breached his human rights

Fuad Awale was given the cash in compensation and costs by the High Court after he complained that a decision to place him in solitary confinement left him 'severely depressed'.

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2 w. ago Fury at 'sick joke' £240,000 handout for Islamist double killer under ECHR rules after he whined that putting him in solitary for taking prison officer hostage breached his human rights

In what has been branded a 'sick joke' Fuad Awale was given the cash by the High Court after he claimed that a decision to place him in solitary confinement left him 'severely depressed'.

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2 w. ago Islamist double killer wins £240k payout after suffering ‘severe depression’ due to being isolated from other inmates

AN Islamist double murderer has been awarded a £7,500 payout after a taxpayer funded £234,000 legal battle. Fuad Awale was convicted in January 2013 of the execution-style shooting of two teenagers and given a life sentence with a minimum term of 38 years. He was then given a further six years for taking a prison officer...

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2 w. ago Islamist double murderer who held prison officer hostage is awarded £240k taxpayer

Fuad Awale was transferred to a special separation unit for dangerous convicts after he and another convict ambushed a jail worker and threatened to kill him.

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2 w. ago The US reporter who has witnessed 14 executions: ‘People need to know what it looks like’

South Carolina-based journalist Jeffrey Collins observed back-to-back executions in 2025 after the state revived the death penalty following a 13-year pauseJeffrey Collins has watched 14 men draw their final breaths.Over 25 years at the Associated Press, the South Carolina-based journalist has repeatedly served as an observer inside the state’s execution chamber, watching from feet away as prison officials kill men who were sentenced to capital punishment. South Carolina has recently kept him unusually busy, with seven back-to-back executions in 14 months. Continue reading...

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