A Uighur prisoner has sent a message from inside a detention camp to claim Chinese authorities are instructing children as young as 13 to ‘regret and surrender’. Merdan Ghappar, who was once a model for online retailer Taobao, provided a chilling first-hand account of China’s highly secure and secretive detention system. The 31-year-old was able … Read more
Prisons and jails number among the top hotspots for coronavirus outbreaks in the US – and new Harvard University research suggests that for every one person who goes into a jail, another two people in the communities they return to develop COVID-19. By the end of last month at least 78,526 people had tested positive … Read more
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 drunken bully faces jail after leaving his ex-girlfriend feeling like a ‘prisoner in her own home’ – two years after walking free for an attack because a judge said he deserved ‘another chance’. Stephen Crellin, 37, pointed a knife at Hayley MacAdam’s throat after he falsely accused her of being unfaithful during their relationship. … 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
What is the coronavirus? A coronavirus is a type of virus which can cause illness in animals and people. Viruses break into cells inside their host and use them to reproduce itself and disrupt the body’s normal functions. Coronaviruses are named after the Latin word ‘corona’, which means crown, because they are encased by a … 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
The repeated escape attempts and day to days lives of prisoners inside one of Nazi Germany’s most notorious prisoner of war camps have 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 … Read more