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NewsYahoo News UKConvicted 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.
NewsYahoo News UKYorkshire 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.
NewsYahoo News UKCriminals '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.
NewsYahoo News UKPrisoners 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'.
NewsReutersHarvey 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.
NewsYahoo News UKLondon 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.
NewsYahoo News UKChild 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.
NewsYahoo News UKOne of Britain’s worst paedophiles found ‘stabbed to death’ in prison cell
Richard Huckle, 33, was found dead at a prison in York.
NewsYahoo News UKReward 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.
PoliticsYahoo News UKGovernment 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.
NewsYahoo News UKMurderer 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.
NewsYahoo News UKTreatment 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.
NewsYahoo News UKTycoon'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.
EntertainmentYahoo News UKPrisoners 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.
NewsYahoo News UKTeen 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.
NewsYahoo News UKReport 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.
NewsYahoo News UKPrisoners 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
NewsYahoo News UKStephen 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.
NewsYahoo News UKMother 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.
NewsYahoo News UKBrazen 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.
NewsYahoo News UKSarah 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.
NewsYahoo News UKChild 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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