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Police launch manhunt as prisoner, 21, due in court escapes custody after claiming he was ill then fleeing hospital Police have launched a manhunt for a prisoner due in court in Manchester today 21-year-old claimed he was ill before escaping Tameside General Hospital Suspect is charged with two counts of burglary, three counts of theft of … Read more
A prisoner who stunned Boris Johnson by trying to smuggle drugs into his jail in a Kinder Egg inside him has had more time added to his sentence. When the PM was shown body scan images of packages hidden up inmates’ bottoms last summer he grimaced and said: ‘You’re joking.’ One of the images was … Read more
Coronavirus prisoner death toll hits NINE as 107 inmates and 19 staff test positive – after government announces 4,000 ‘low-risk’ convicts will be freed Three of the dead prisoners were inmates at HMP Littlehey in Cambridgeshire Others at Birmingham, Manchester, Altcourse, Belmarsh, Whatton, Low Newton 107 prisoners have tested positive in 38 jails plus 19 … Read more
From the plumped up pillows of his king-size bed, through the tall windows above the famous rose garden, he can look down on the vast emptiness of Horse Guards Parade. Closer to home he can see the couriers bringing government papers, the delivery men with their supplies and the to-ing and fro-ing of visitors. But … Read more
Former Cabinet Minister Jonathan Aitken famously emerged unscathed from a seven-month stretch inside for perjury and perverting the course of justice. But those halcyon days are over. For I can disclose that, 20 years after his release, he has been subjected to an assault while visiting HMP Pentonville in his new role as an unpaid prison … Read more
First UK prisoner catches coronavirus: HMP Manchester inmate is taken to hospital after testing positive for killer bug as 13 convicts and four staff are put in isolation Inmate at Strangeways prison in Manchester is now being treated for the virus No other prisoners or wardens tested positive and visits continuing as normal Prison service … Read more
A British-Iranian prisoner has revealed how soldiers are wearing worn out masks and no gloves as the Iranian prison system collapses into coronavirus chaos. Anoosheh Ashoori, who is being held in Tehran on spying charges, also said no one checked his temperature when he was moved to a bedbug riddled ward in Evin prison without … Read more
Life behind the bars of one of Nazi Germany’s most notorious prisoner of war camps has been revealed with a collection of photographs. German photographer Johnannes Lange was tasked with documenting every failed Allied escape from Colditz Camp in Leipzig during the Second World War. Among the shots is a solider sheepishly poking his head … Read more
A woman who was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder after getting drunk and knifing her partner in the heart during an argument has spoken of the moment she had to tell her young son she was behind bars for killing his father. Tonight’s episode of Channel 4 show Prison, featured Lexi Heckles, 40, from … Read more