9 h. ago Prisoner is allowed to walk out of jail to pick up tomatoes for the canteen in 'unbelievable' security breach

EXCLUSIVE: The farcical yet deeply concerning incident unfolded on Saturday at HMP Downview, a closed women's prison on the outskirts of Banstead in Surrey.

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30 h. ago Abusers deserve harsher sentences after child victim left broken by monster

Record View says Scotland’s prisons may be fit to bursting, but that cannot be allowed to influence how long convicted abusers are sent down for.

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42 h. ago Man wees on altar at St Peter’s Basilica as onlookers gobsmacked by security breach

A young man horrified worshippers at St Peter's in Rome by peeing on the altar and then mooning the congregation as he was dragged out by plain-clothed policemen

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48 h. 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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6 d. ago British Army probes major security breach at Royal Artillery HQ after thieves cut through fences to steal 'large quantity' of fuel

The raid took place at the Larkhill Royal Artillery Barracks in Wiltshire on Saturday and triggered a lockdown amid initial fears terrorists had breached the base's security.

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6 d. ago Lawyer hurls shoe at India’s chief justice inside Supreme Court over remarks on Hindu god

Attack on BR Gavai in open court condemned as serious insult and breach of security

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3 w. ago RAF’s first aircraft deployed to secure Polish airspace after Russian drone breach

British RAF fighter jets have conducted an air defence mission over Poland in response to Russian drone incursions over Nato airspace, according to the Ministry of Defence.

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