Married prison teacher, 39, who exchanged love letters with inmate before her own husband reported her to police avoids jail Iryna Durham wrote letters to inmate at HMP Moorland in Doncaster for months Husband found out about relationship and reported her to police in June 2019 Teacher admitted misconduct and was given a four-month suspended sentence … Read more
Prison vicar gets arrested after she is seen in a clinch with inmate behind bars Female vicar arrested after being caught ‘in a clinch’ with convicted arsonist Prison officer interrupted the vicar and the criminal as they allegedly canoodled The priest is believed to be 58 and cannot be named for legal reasons By David … Read more
Prison vicar gets arrested after she is seen in a clinch with inmate behind bars Female vicar arrested after being caught ‘in a clinch’ with convicted arsonist Prison officer interrupted the vicar and the criminal as they allegedly canoodled The priest is believed to be 58 and cannot be named for legal reasons By David … Read more
A federal appeals court has cleared the way for the only woman on federal death row to be executed before President-elect Joe Biden takes office. The ruling, handed down Friday by a three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, concluded that a lower court judge erred when he … Read more
A Missouri inmate on Tuesday became the first person to be executed since the coronavirus pandemic took hold. Walter Barton, 64, died by lethal injection for killing Gladys Kuehler, 81, in 1991. A jury recently said that ‘compelling’ new evidence made them feel ‘uncomfortable’ about the conviction and he had long maintained his innocence. His case … Read more
A Missouri inmate on Tuesday became the first person to be executed since the coronavirus pandemic took hold. Walter Barton, 64, died by lethal injection for killing Gladys Kuehler, 81, in 1991. A jury recently said that ‘compelling’ new evidence made them feel ‘uncomfortable’ about the conviction and he had long maintained his innocence. His case … 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