British Prime Minister Andy Burnham has proposed putting male inmates in female prisons to ease Britain's prison overcrowding crisis.
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham has outlined a new plan to address critical overcrowding in prisons , which includes placing male criminals in women’s prisons. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: British Prime Minister Andy Burnham proposed putting male inmates in female prisons on Tuesday, to ease Britain’s prison overcrowding crisis. KEY QUOTE: “It will be based on a range of options including the three strands of further work I asked him to initiate last week: increasing the rate of removal of foreign national offenders from the prison estate to their country of origin; finding an early resolution to the long-running injustice of IPP [Imprisonment for Public Protection] sentences, which could allow for the release of lower-risk…Open
Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage has announced negotiations with El Salvador to deport foreign criminals to the Central American country.
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK is discussing transferring foreign criminals to El Salvador, led by President Nayib Bukele, with the Central American country. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: - DETAIL: On Monday, it was revealed that Reform will send a team of negotiators, led by party chairman Lee Anderson, to El Salvador. This follows discussions about the possibility of a Reform-led government renting prison space in El Salvador to alleviate prison overcrowding. The negotiations between Reform and the El Salvador government are scheduled to take place later this year. The announcement of potential co-operation between a Reform government and El Salvador coincides with Farage’s commitment to build “Nightingale” prisons. These…Open
Inmates ended up in possession of firearms, which they fired at the guards
A two-day Negombo prison revolt in Sri Lanka left 26 dead, including seven prison guards, and resulted in 77 hospitalized — 23 prison officials and 54 inmates — with officials saying the violence was due to narcotic drugs. The riot that broke out in the prison was between two rival groups of prisoners, permanently convicted inmates and those temporarily imprisoned. It began on Sunday and started growing more violent on Monday. Justice Minister Harshana Nanayakkara told the Sri Lankan parliament that he believed the riot was linked to narcotic drugs and prison gang rivalries, according to the Associated Press (AP). He claimed that the riot began with those who had informed the guards about the other groups’ illegal drug…Open