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    • Convicted killer among three prisoners on the loose after absconding from Derbyshire jail
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      Convicted killer among three prisoners on the loose after absconding from Derbyshire jail

      Police issued an urgent warning after Lewis Daniel Thornton, Daniel Gerald Ferris and Rory Allen left HMP Sudbury on Saturday. 

    • Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe dies in hospital after refusing COVID treatment
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      Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe dies in hospital after refusing COVID treatment

      A Prison Service spokesperson said: “HMP Frankland prisoner Peter Coonan (born Sutcliffe) died in hospital on 13 November.

    • Criminals 'handed coronavirus discounts as sentences shortened because of harsh new prison conditions'
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      Criminals 'handed coronavirus discounts as sentences shortened because of harsh new prison conditions'

      The Court of Appeal ruled that the impact of going to prison is much harsher during the coronavirus pandemic.

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      Criminal justice reform group gets bill passed in California to improve state’s probation system

      REFORM Alliance, the criminal justice reform organization co-founded by Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter, rapper Meek Mill, entrepreneur Michael Rubin and New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft among others, just passed its first significant reform law in the U.S., which dramatically changes California’s probation system. AB 1950, signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom this week, will limit adult probation sentences to a maximum of one year for misdemeanor offenses and two years for felony offenses.

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      Invisible workers: Prison fire crews save lives while incarcerated then left to fend for themselves once released

      There are currently more than 14,000 firefighters struggling to battle roughly 7,000 blazes in California, many working 24-hour shifts. Among those pushed to the limit, as this year’s fire season in California burns an area now the size of the state of Delaware, are approximately 3,100 inmates trained as wildland firefighters.

    • Prisoners suffering violent attacks from prison staff for being well-behaved, torture watchdog warns
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      Prisoners suffering violent attacks from prison staff for being well-behaved, torture watchdog warns

      The Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture said some of the findings were of 'deep concern'.

    • Harvey Weinstein tests positive for coronavirus in prison: union official
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      Harvey Weinstein tests positive for coronavirus in prison: union official

      Weinstein, 68, has been placed in isolation at Wende Correctional Facility, said Michael Powers, president of the New York State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association. Powers said he learned that the test came back positive on Sunday morning and is concerned about the corrections officers, who he said lack proper protective equipment. Weinstein arrived at Wende Correctional Facility, a maximum security prison east of Buffalo, New York, on Wednesday after being housed at New York City's Rikers Island jail.

    • London Bridge terrorist Usman Khan ‘wrote thank-you poem to rehab programme’ he attacked
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      London Bridge terrorist Usman Khan ‘wrote thank-you poem to rehab programme’ he attacked

      Usman Khan wrote a poem and a thank-you note to prisoner rehabilitation initiative Learning Together.

    • Child rapist who filmed his abuse of girl, 5, may never be released from prison
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      Child rapist who filmed his abuse of girl, 5, may never be released from prison

      William Rigby presents 'a risk to the public' and was given a lifelong restriction.

    • One of Britain’s worst paedophiles found ‘stabbed to death’ in prison cell
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      One of Britain’s worst paedophiles found ‘stabbed to death’ in prison cell

      Richard Huckle, 33, was found dead at a prison in York.

    • Reward of £1,000 offered for information on convicted rapist on the run after prison escape
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      Reward of £1,000 offered for information on convicted rapist on the run after prison escape

      Convicted rapist Stephen Tierney, 39, escaped from North Sea Camp prison in Lincolnshire earlier this month.

    • Government accidentally reveals fears no-deal Brexit could lead to prison riots over food and medicine shortages
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      Government accidentally reveals fears no-deal Brexit could lead to prison riots over food and medicine shortages

      The leaked part of a government document revealed fears of rioting in prisons in the event of a no-deal Brexit.

    • Murderer stabbed fellow inmate to death with prison kitchen knife while cutting vegetables
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      Murderer stabbed fellow inmate to death with prison kitchen knife while cutting vegetables

      William Tolcher murdered fellow inmate Alex Cusworth by stabbing him with a kitchen knife at Dartmoor Prison.

    • Treatment of diabetic prisoner who died after being restrained and left for 21 hours was 'truly shocking', report finds
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      Treatment of diabetic prisoner who died after being restrained and left for 21 hours was 'truly shocking', report finds

      Annabella Landsberg, 45, died after being restrained and left on a cell floor in isolation for 21 hours at HMP Peterborough.

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      Unfiltered: Leather and bondage, and parole board justice

      In this week’s episode of “Unfiltered,” Yahoo News speaks with gay Muslim activist Ali Mushtaq about diversifying the primarily white world of leather and bondage, and hears from Professor Frederic Reamer, whose decades-long career on the Rhode Island Parole Board afforded him a unique insight into the meaning of justice.

    • Tycoon's son jailed for causing death of girl who died nine years after car crash
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      Tycoon's son jailed for causing death of girl who died nine years after car crash

      A multi-millionaire’s son has been jailed for causing the death of a toddler who died nine years  after he smashed head-on into the car she was travelling in. “Arrogant” Antonio Singh Boparan, who was 19 at the time of the crash, ploughed his Range Rover into the family car while speeding on the wrong side of the road at 70mph in a 30mph zone. Cerys Edwards, then just one, was left paralysed, unable to breathe unaided and needing 24-hour specialist care. She died in October 2015, a month before her 10th birthday, after complications caused by an infection.

    • Prisoners smoke pages from a Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire book sprayed in drugs
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      Prisoners smoke pages from a Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire book sprayed in drugs

      A Harry Potter book sprayed with drugs was smuggled into a UK prison, where inmates are suspected to have smoked the pages.

    • Teen who avoided jail after attacking car with 'zombie knife' put behind bars in sentence review
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      Teen who avoided jail after attacking car with 'zombie knife' put behind bars in sentence review

      Joshua Gardner was originally given a suspended prison sentence but has now been jailed for three-and-a-half years after judges agreed it was too lenient.

    • Report into 'filthy' HMP Bedford reveals inmate was spotted catching a rat during prison inspection
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      Report into 'filthy' HMP Bedford reveals inmate was spotted catching a rat during prison inspection

      A report on an inspection of HMP Bedford found a rat infestation, high levels of violence, drug use and filthy conditions.

    • Prisoners smoke bits of dressing gowns soaked in Spice and smuggled into jail to get high
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      Prisoners smoke bits of dressing gowns soaked in Spice and smuggled into jail to get high

      Inmates at Leeds Prison have been smuggling clothes soaked in the drug spice to smoke behind bars

    • Stephen Lawrence murder suspect attacked in jail just days into nine-year sentence
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      Stephen Lawrence murder suspect attacked in jail just days into nine-year sentence

      Jamie Acourt - one of those suspected of the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence - has been attacked by a fellow inmate just days into his sentence for running a £3 million drugs plot.

    • Mother and ex-partner jailed for 'brutal' death of her three-week-old baby
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      Mother and ex-partner jailed for 'brutal' death of her three-week-old baby

      Roxanne Davis, 30, of Gosport, Hampshire and ex-partner Samuel Davies, 24, of Southampton, were jailed for 10 years each at Winchester Crown Court for causing or allowing the death of Stanley Davis.

    • Brazen inmates post footage of themselves 'kicking back' at HMP Doncaster...AGAIN
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      Brazen inmates post footage of themselves 'kicking back' at HMP Doncaster...AGAIN

      The group of inmates at Serco-run HMP Doncaster in South Yorkshire posted footage of themselves in their cells on Facebook.

    • Sarah Payne's killer Roy Whiting attacked in prison by fellow inmates
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      Sarah Payne's killer Roy Whiting attacked in prison by fellow inmates

      Roy Whiting, who is serving a life sentence for the murder of schoolgirl Sarah Payne, was reportedly attacked with makeshift blades by fellow inmates at Wakefield Prison.

    • Child grooming gang ringleader Ahdel Ali ‘left scarred for life after prison knife attack’
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      Child grooming gang ringleader Ahdel Ali ‘left scarred for life after prison knife attack’

      Ahdel Ali, 31, who is serving an 18-year jail sentence for grooming teenage girls and selling them for sex, was reportedly attacked at Wakefield Prison.

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