31 m. ago Manchester Arena bomb plotter Hashem Abedi charged with three counts of attempted murder after prison officers attacked

Abedi has also been charged with one count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and one count of unauthorised possession of a knife or offensive weapon

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32 m. ago Manchester Arena bomb plotter charged with three counts of attempted murder

Hashem Abedi charged over incident in which four prison officers were injured at a maximum security prison in AprilThe Manchester Arena plotter Hashem Abedi has been charged with three counts of attempted murder after four prison officers were injured at a maximum security prison.Abedi, 28, is also charged with one count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and one count of unauthorised possession of a knife or offensive weapon after an incident at HMP Frankland in Durham on 12 April. Continue reading...

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34 m. ago Manchester Arena bomb plotter Hashem Abedi charged with three counts of attempted murder after four prison officers injured

Hashem Abedi, 28, was ordered to serve a record 55-year minimum term for helping his suicide bomber brother Salman murder 22 people, many of them children, at the Manchester Arena in 2017.

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43 m. ago Hashem Abedi charged with attempted murder after prison officers injured

Abedi, 28, is also charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm and possession of an offensive weapon after the incident at HMP Frankland

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50 m. ago Manchester Arena bomb plotter Hashem Abedi charged with three counts of attempted murder

The charges come after four prison officers were injured during an attack at HMP Frankland

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34 h. ago Female prison officer, 23, admits to having fling with inmate

A judge said 'all sentencing options' were open

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47 h. ago Most Palestine Action protesters unlikely to face prison, officials say

More than 500 people arrested in London on Saturday for supporting proscribed terrorist group

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53 h. ago Female prison officer admits illicit fling with inmate behind bars

Prison officer Megan Breen, 23, could face jail time after she admitted to an inappropriate relationship with an inmate between February and May 2022 in Gwent, South Wales

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53 h. ago Prison officer, 23, facing jail herself after admitting affair with an inmate

Megan Breen initially denied the fling with the unnamed prisoner while working at two prisons in 2022, but later changed her plea and admitted the illicit affair behind bars.

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53 h. ago Prison officer admits 'inappropriate' relationship with inmate

Megan Breen initially denied the fling with the unnamed prisoner while working at two prisons in Wales

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5 d. ago No contempt for Trump officials over Venezuelan migrant deportations to El Salvadorian prison, appeals court rules – live

Three-judge panel sided with government by a 2-1 vote, with two Trump-appointed judges and one Obama-appointed judge making the decisionAccording to new reporting by the New York Times, the president has secretly signed a directive to the Pentagon to begin using military force against certain Latin American drug cartels that the Trump administration considers terrorist organizations.According to the Times’ sources, US military officials have started drawing up options for how the military could go after the group. The Times also notes that this escalation would be the most “aggressive step” in the administration’s “campaign against cartels”. They also noted that this continues the president’s preference for using “military forces to carry out what has primarily been considered a law enforcement responsibility to curb the flow of fentanyl and other illegal drugs”. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Indiana announces a ‘Speedway Slammer’ to house migrants and become the Hoosier state’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

Indiana is expanding a state prison by 1,000 beds to house migrants in what Trump officials are calling the ‘Speedway Slammer.’

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7 d. ago Journalist sentenced to two years in prison for slapping police officer

The case against Mzia Amaghlobeli has been condemned as an attack on media freedom

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7 d. ago Georgian journalist is convicted of slapping a police office at a protest and gets 2 years in prison

A Georgian journalist has been convicted of slapping a senior police officer at an anti-government protest and sentenced to two years in prison in a case that was condemned by rights groups as an attack on press freedom

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7 d. ago Tennessee executes man despite concerns over shock from heart device

Byron Black, 69, put to death after legal battle in which lawyers said defibrillator would shock heart repeatedlyTennessee has executed a man without deactivating his implanted defibrillator, despite uncertainty about whether the device would shock his heart when a lethal drug takes effect.Byron Black died at 10.43am, prison officials said. Shortly after the lethal injection started, witnesses said Black told a spiritual adviser in the room that he was hurting so badly. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Prison officer killed 'one in a million' Scots dad in horror Cumbernauld crash

Robert Jardine was returning from a night shift at HMP Addiewell when he hit the man who was walking on a cycle path.

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9 d. ago Former New York prison guard sentenced to 15 years for beating death of inmate

A former corrections officer has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for his role in the death of an inmate at a New York prison

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3 w. ago Ian Huntley moans he’s ‘being picked on’ as prison officers seize items from cell

Ian Huntley, who is serving a life term at HMP Frankland, Durham, for the murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman has claimed he is "being picked on" behind bars

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3 w. ago Trump officials tour Alcatraz in bid to reopen prison amid outcry from California leaders

Doug Burgum, interior secretary, and Pam Bondi, attorney general, visited island jail as Nancy Pelosi calls idea ‘lunacy’A delegation of US officials toured Alcatraz on Thursday as part of Donald Trump’s pledge to reopen the shuttered federal prison and tourist attraction in the San Francisco Bay, amid an outcry from California leaders who have called the plan “lunacy”.Doug Burgum, the interior secretary, who visited the island prison with attorney general Pam Bondi, said the federal government was beginning “the work to renovate and reopen the site to house the most dangerous criminals and illegals”. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Southport killer Axel Rudakubana 'will kill someone with liquid napalm' while behind bars

An ex-prison officer has warned the Southport killer could claim a life while locked up in the pen. The ex-officer warns the killer could use a deadly weapon he calls 'liquid napalm'

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