Prisoners to be released after serving just a third of their sentences under new plans
A controversial reform is on the horizon, suggesting a third of a sentence might be enough for some prisoners. Is this the key to solving prison overcrowding? Daily Express :: News Feed
Security checks for UK’s most radical prisoners taken away because they were ‘offended’
Justice chiefs were accused of “pandering” to jihadists in HMP Frankland, County Durham, after sniffer dogs were removed from searches. Daily Express :: News Feed
Incredible life of Winston Churchill’s favourite spy who saved Nazi prisoners
As wartime SOE agent Krystyna Skarbek is honoured with a photograph at the National Portrait Gallery in London as part of a new exhibition on female spies, her biographer Clare Mulley recounts this extraordinary woman’s story… and her unbelievably tragic end Daily Express :: Books Feed
Zelensky says Russia is ‘playing with the lives’ of Ukrainian prisoners after plane crash
Volodymyr Zelensky has called for an international inquiry after a plane crash in Russia Daily Express :: News Feed
‘No survivors’ as Russian plane crashes and explodes with 65 Ukrainian prisoners onboard
The nerve-shredding footage shows the eruption of flames and smoke as the plane believed to carry 65 Ukrainian prisoners, crashes down into the ground. Daily Express :: World Feed
Putin plot: Russian prisoners in -35C jail forced into war as staff ‘cut heating in cells’
“They are prisoners, [national] minorities living in poor regions far from Moscow and new citizens.” Daily Express :: World Feed
Hamas wants ‘US prisoners released’ in exchange for Israeli hostages
Hamas has said it will execute hostages if Israel bombs residential areas with out warning. Now they have issued more demands for their release. Daily Express :: World Feed
Iran releases five American prisoners as officials confirm hostages are flying home
US officials have confirmed that five American prisoners held in Iran have left the country as part of a $ 6 billion prisoner swap. Daily Express :: World Feed
Drunk Russian troops ‘using pocket knives to castrate Ukrainian prisoners of war’
Two survivors of horrific Moscow-sanctioned torture camps relive the shock and trauma of terrifying treatment at the hands of sick and twisted enemy soldiers Daily Express :: News Feed
Russian prisoners make up most of 2,000 death toll in Ukraine, report finds
Roughly 20,000 Wagner Group mercenaries, many of whom were pulled from Russian prisons to fight in Putin’s “special military operation”, are believed to have died in the battle for the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut. Daily Express :: World Feed