6 h. ago Prison officer had ‘illicit calls' with inmate who 'severed man’s leg with machete'

Heather Pinchbeck was allegedly found to be making secret calls to the deadly prisoner whilst she was working at HMP Dovegate, with officers seemingly going weeks without noticing

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11 h. ago Prison officer 'made illicit phone calls to prisoner' jailed for machete attack

Heather Pinchbeck, 28, appeared in court earlier this month charged with making illegal mobile communication with a prisoner who she allegedly met while on duty

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12 h. ago Glamorous prison officer, 28, charged with making illicit phone calls to prisoner locked up for severing a man's leg with a machete

Heather Pinchbeck has been charged over the provocative chats and could now end up in prison herself if convicted.

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40 h. ago Besotted prison officer who was jailed after being caught sneaking into cupboard with convicted drug dealer says minimum age for guards should be raised

Morgan Farr Varney was sentenced to ten months after 'falling in love' with a convicted drug dealer serving more than five years at HMP Lindholme in South Yorkshire.

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4 d. ago ‘How is this possible?’: a new film looks inside the appalling abuses of the Alabama prison system

In the year’s most shocking documentary The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for helpWhen film-makers Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman visited Alabama’s Easterling prison in 2019, they found a deceptively pleasant scene. Like Alabama’s 13 other prisons, Easterling largely prohibits media access, but allowed the documentarians to film its annual volunteer-run barbecue, a sunny day in which incarcerated men, most of them Black, ate fresh roasts to live music and sermons. On camera, men danced and smiled. But off camera, many more told a different story – horrific beatings, unreported stabbings, unimaginable violence swept under the rug and appalling conditions that “ain’t fit for human society”. Cries for help emerged from inside the sweltering, filthy dorms. When Jarecki approached the voices, a prison official shut down filming, claiming that it was unsafe for him to speak to the men without a police chaperone.“It was very clear that there were are...

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5 d. ago Ian Watkins killer 'given bonus points' by inmates after stabbing Lostprophets paedo to death

An ex-prison officer said other paedophiles jailed at HMP Wakefield are likely to have a tough time after former Lostprophets star Ian Watkins was stabbed to death in his prison cell

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5 d. ago Ronnie Kray's intimate message to killer as victim's family suspect chilling link

Notorious East End villain Ronnie Kray called Nizamodeen Hosein 'the sweetest' in a prison card as the pair served life sentences in HMP Parkhurst on the Isle of Wight in the 1970s

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6 d. ago Middle school teacher jailed for raping a student is killed in prison by his murderer cellmate, officials say

Ernest Nichols, 60, was convicted of rape in 2011 and set to be released in 2027

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7 d. ago Family claim 'corrupt officers and organised crime groups have flooded' prison where man died

They were speaking via lawyers after the inquest into their relative's death concluded on Thursday. The family claim measures that were in place to prevent drugs being smuggled into the prison weren’t effective

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7 d. ago Watch: Emotional moment Donald Trump tells Israeli hostage families their loved ones are coming home

The US president announced that Israel and Hamas will begin releasing hostages and prisoners, with Sir Keir Starmer calling it a ‘moment of profound relief felt around the world’

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1 week ago Firearms officer used excessive force in fatal shooting of unarmed man in London, misconduct hearing told

Jermaine Baker, from Tottenham, killed during operation to stop plot to spring gang leader from prison in 2015A firearms officer used excessive force when he shot dead an unarmed 28-year-old man involved in a foiled attempt to spring a gang leader from prison, a police misconduct hearing has been told.The officer, known only as W80, killed Jermaine Baker, from Tottenham, north London, during an operation to interrupt a criminal plot to snatch Izzet Eren, the head of the Tottenham Turks organised crime group, from a van heading towards Wood Green crown court in December 2015. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Prison officers had just minutes to save cellmates after one of them started fire

Carlo Shepherd's cellmate was 'overwhelmed by the smoke' and required oxygen

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1 week ago Diddy sentencing live updates: Sean Combs to appeal sentence as his lawyer calls 4 years in prison ‘un

The disgraced music titan, 55, was convicted of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution

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1 week ago Prison officer cries as she's jailed over secret affair with inmate

Amie Turner's lawyer said she had been manipulated by a “sophisticated criminal” and feared blackmail.

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1 week ago Gang of hotel migrants from Iran and Iraq are jailed for 22 years for 'ferocious and frighteningly violent' machete attack on shop owner

The four men, Hana Hassan, 22; Yosef Shaban, 24; Osama Qadir, 21, and Dawan Mantik, 28, all from Iran and Iraq arrived in Britain on small boats.

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1 week ago Prison officer sobs as 'inappropriate tryst' with inmate she smuggled for is exposed

A senior Manchester prison officer has been sentenced to 15 months in jail after making dozens of secret sexual calls and messages to an inmate on a smuggled phone

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1 week ago Shamed prison officer cries after her secret messages to inmate are exposed

Amie Turner, 34, was sentenced to 15 months in prison

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2 w. ago Female prison officer, 34, who smuggled phones into jail for her inmate lover is locked up

Amie Turner's secret came to light in April 2016 when intelligence reports first raised concerns about her behaviour, Manchester Crown Court heard.

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2 w. ago Arbitrary detention victims urge Starmer to press Modi on jailed British Sikh

Activist Jagtar Singh Johal has been held in Indian prison for nearly eight years without full trial The sisters of the British-Egyptian human rights campaigner Alaa Abd el-Fattah have intervened for the first time since his release from prison in Egypt to call on Keir Starmer to push Narendra Modi to free a British Sikh activist when he meets the Indian prime minister next week.Jagtar Singh Johal, from Dumbarton, has been held in an Indian jail for nearly eight years without facing full trial in what his supporters say is an arbitrary and egregious denial of justice by a British ally. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Prison officers reveal shame over "barbaric" death of inmate Allan Marshall at Saughton jail

Officers claim Allan's death was result of "barbaric" response to a medical situation. Sources say ongoing denials of blame have damaged SPS.

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