Police are investigating an alleged attack on a prison officer by Southport killer Axel Rudakubana on Thursday, according to a report in the Sun. A Prison Service spokesperson said: “Police are investigating an attack on a prison officer at HMP Belmarsh yesterday. “Violence in prison will not be tolerated and we will always push for...
An inmate armed with a plastic prison knife who took a Dartmoor prison officer hostage has been jailed. Scott Patterson handcuffed the warder and held him for three hours during the attack at HMP Dartmoor in July 2023. Patterson, 37, admitted false imprisonment, assaulting an emergency worker and possessing an offensive weapon in prison. Judge...
A Kenyan court has sentenced four men to one year in prison or pay a fine of $7,700 (£5,800) for trying to smuggle thousands of live ants out of the country. The four suspects – two Belgians, a Vietnamese and a Kenyan – were arrested last month with 5,000 ants at a guest house in...
Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News, White House Getty Images The price to keep prisoners at Alcatraz was significantly higher than elsewhere in the federal prison system. US President Donald Trump has doubled down on his proposal to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the once-notorious prison island in the icy waters of San Francisco Bay. Alcatraz- popularly...
Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the former prison on an island off the coast of California. In a message on his Truth Social site on Sunday, President Trump said that “for too long America has been plagued by vicious, violent, and repeat criminal offenders”. The reopening of...
Twenty-five people have been arrested in early morning raids across France in response to a wave of coordinated attacks on prisons and the homes of prison officers in April. Raids are taking place across the country on Monday including in the capital Paris, Marseille and Bordeaux in the south, and the city of Lyon. French...
“This is, to us, an unprecedented opportunity,” the executive chairman of GEO Group said shortly after the election. As the Trump administration is ramping up detentions and deportations of immigrants living in the United States, it is also revising and expanding contracts with private prison facilities. Prison companies can earn millions from the federal government...
“How could [my activism] be a threat to anybody except the war machine that is feeding this?” Mahdawi said. Vermont Sen. Peter Welch (D) met with Columbia University activist Mohsen Mahdawi in a Vermont prison on Monday, where the Palestinian student pleaded for peace and urged those advocating for his release to continue fighting for...
Former Australia cricketer Michael Slater has been handed a partly suspended four-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to domestic violence charges. However, the 55-year-old will walk free – having already served more than a year in custody after being refused bail in 2024. Slater, who played 74 Tests for Australia between 1993 and 2001, pleaded...
Prison officers are to demand that staff be given electric stun guns to protect themselves while guarding the UK’s most dangerous jails when they meet the justice secretary on Wednesday. The meeting with Shabana Mahmood comes after Hashem Abedi, one of the men responsible for the Manchester Arena bombing, threw hot oil at officers and...
“I lie sleepless … in Jena, Louisiana, far from my wife, Noor, who will give birth to our baby in two weeks,” he wrote. In a letter from an immigrant detention center in Louisiana, pro-Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil has pleaded for his case to spur the public into action against the rapid erosion of civil...
The Prison Service will conduct a snap review into whether protective body armour should be made available to front-line staff, the justice secretary has said. Shabana Mahmood’s announcement comes after Manchester Arena bomber Hashem Abedi threw hot oil at prison officers and stabbed them with makeshift weapons at HMP Frankland on Saturday. In a statement,...
A prison officer at HMP Frankland in County Durham has told the BBC “there needs to be an urgent change in security measures” across all prisons or staff will die. It comes after the Manchester Arena bomber Hashem Abedi threw hot oil at officers and stabbed them with makeshift weapons at the prison on Saturday....
The far-right anti-Islam activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, better known as Tommy Robinson, has lost an appeal against his 18-month prison sentence for contempt of court. Yaxley-Lennon was jailed last October after he ignored a court order not to repeat lies about a Syrian refugee, who had successfully sued him for libel. The 42-year-old appealed against the...
Thomas Mackintosh & Tom Symonds BBC News Greater Manchester Police Hashem Abedi left prison officers at HMP Frankland in hospital with serious injuries following an attack on Saturday A Manchester Arena bombing survivor has said he is angry, disgusted and broken after the bomber was able to attack three prison guards at a high-security unit...