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Inmate gouges his eye out at New York City’s Rikers Island jail in front of horrified corrections officers and does it again after doctors reinserted it An inmate gouged his eye out in front horrified corrections officers at New York City’s Rikers Island jail over the weekend The unidentified inmate from the Anna M. Kross … Read more
Britain’s youngest female murderer – who stabbed a stranger to death aged just 12 – loses bid to relax her jail regime after fantasizing about killing an inmate Sharon Carr brutally murdered Katie Rackliff by stabbing her 32 times in 1992 She is now eligible for release but authorities consider her a danger to society … Read more
The Supreme Court has issued a stay of execution in the final hours for Nathaniel Woods who was convicted of the murder of three police officers The Supreme Court has issued a stay of execution in the final hours for an Alabama man convicted of the murder of three police officers. Nathaniel Woods, 44, was … Read more
A murderer has been executed in Tennessee, making him the fifth inmate to die in the electric chair since 2018. Nicholas Sutton, 58, was pronounced dead at 7:26pm CST, according to the Tennessee Department of Correction. In his last words he thanked God and said that he was ‘a winner’ in death. He paid tribute … Read more
A murderer has been executed in Tennessee, making him the fifth inmate to die in the electric chair since 2018. Nicholas Sutton, 58, was pronounced dead at 7:26pm CST, according to the Tennessee Department of Correction. In his last words he thanked God and said that he was ‘a winner’ in death. He paid tribute … Read more
Drug dealer who was at the centre of a coronavirus scare when he collapsed in HMP Bullingdon after being transferred to the UK from a Thai jail pleads guilty to conspiracy to supply cocaine and cannabis as second in command of a 15-strong crime gang Mark Rumble was one of two inmates isolated but both … Read more
The husband of a prison teacher exposed her affair with an inmate after finding 107 messages between the pair on a secret mobile phone SIM card, a court heard today. Melissa Frost, 36, exchanged letters, phone calls and text messages with the prisoner while having a relationship with him at Wayland Prison near Thetford, Norfolk. … Read more
SOCIETY A BIT OF A STRETCH: THE DIARIES OF A PRISONER by Chris Atkins (Atlantic Books £16.99, 336pp) Documentary maker Chris Atkins is in a rundown cell with a psychotic prisoner discussing the intricacies of quantum mechanics. He has more prison access than any journalist could dream of, but there’s just one catch: he is … Read more