A bruising, lyrical, Oscar-tipped tale of institutional abuse
Colson Whitehead has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, putting him up there with only Faulkner, Updike and Booth Tarkington in the most rarefied rank of American novelists. The….
Colson Whitehead has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, putting him up there with only Faulkner, Updike and Booth Tarkington in the most rarefied rank of American novelists. The….
Overcrowding, ageing and creaking infrastructure and shortage of staff were some of the problems witnessed by members of the parliamentary portfolio committee on correctional services during a visit to some….
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A Texas man convicted of fatally stabbing twin 16-year-old girls more than three decades ago was executed on Tuesday evening. Garcia Glenn White was pronounced dead at 6:56 p.m. following a chemical injection….
Two alleged members of the notorious Alameddine crime group have been charged for their roles in supplying drugs to prisons in New South Wales. Detectives identified an alleged syndicate operating….
HMP Brixton, the most overcrowded prison in the country for moderate-risk inmates, is failing to prepare prisoners for release, with nearly half saying it is easy to buy drugs, a….
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The United Kingdom’s prison crisis is the product of a….
ABUJA, Nigeria — Nigerian authorities said 281 inmates escaped after devastating floods brought down a prison’s walls in the country’s northeast. A major dam collapsed on Sept. 10, unleashing severe flooding….
Good evening. Some prisoners released early this week have been recalled to jail within days of being freed, The Telegraph can reveal. Elsewhere in today’s newsletter, Jay Blades has been….
Larry Barnett junior, aged 38, denies conspiring to convey drugs into a prison