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Further details have emerged regarding the prison attack on George Floyd killer Derek Chauvin. Last month, it was revealed that the former Minneapolis police officer was the victim of a serious attack at the Federal Correctional Institution in Tucson, Arizona. The medium-security prison has previously faced criticism for security lapses…
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A death row inmate in Alabama used his final words to make a strong accusation against his executioner. Casey McWhorter, who was executed last Thursday, had spent nearly 30 years on death row after he was convicted of the 1993 murder of Edward Lee Williams during a home invasion and…
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Oscar Pistorius is set to be released from prison on parole - nearly 11 years after the killing of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. In February 2013, the now-37-year-old former Paralympian and Olympian shot his girlfriend - model and law graduate Steenkamp - four times through their bathroom door. The South…
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A Texas man who spent more than three decades on death row uttered his final words to his victim's family. On Thursday (November 9), Brent Ray Brewer, 53, was put to death by lethal injection at the Texas State Penitentiary in the town of Huntsville, prison officials confirmed. He was…
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In one of the weirdest and wackiest crossovers to ever exist, it has been reported that Gypsy Rose Blanchard hopes to meet Taylor Swift after her release from prison next month. While some people look forward to eating their favorite meals or seeing their loved ones freely after doing some…
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Todd Chrisley has said that he believes God put him in prison in order to help others. Speaking to TMZ, the 54-year-old's attorney Jay Surgent said that the things he has seen while behind bars at Flordia's Federal prison Camp Pensacola, which is a minimum-security United States federal prison for…
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A prisoner who is known as the "most isolated inmate in the United States" revealed exactly what it's like spending almost three decades in solitary confinement. Thomas Silverstein was originally locked up when he was 19 years old for an armed robbery but after an incident inside the prison saw…
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It has been confirmed that Gypsy Rose Blanchard, who was sentenced to 10 years for conspiring to kill her own mom, will be released from prison early on parole. The story of Gypsy Rose Blanchard has had the world hooked. From the outside, what looked to be a loving relationship…
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Ian Watkins, the convicted pedophile who once fronted the British band Lostprophets, is in hospital after being taken hostage and stabbed while in prison. Watkins, 46, is currently 10 years into a 29-year jail sentence for multiple sexual offences, including serious crimes against young children and babies. The sex offender…
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Harry Potter star Jamie Waylett has a very different life now after spending time behind bars. Fans of the popular franchise will recognize Waylett as he appeared on the big screen alongside Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson. and Rupert Grint, in the first Harry Potter movie, The Philosopher's Stone, and the…
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Officials allowed Jeffrey Epstein to make an unmonitored call to his "mom" on the night of his death - even though she had been dead for years. Epstein, who was 66 at the time, was booked into prison in July 2019 on federal charges of sex trafficking underage girls and…
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On Tuesday, the US Justice Department's watchdog reported that a mix of "negligence and misconduct" permitted notorious financier Jeffrey Epstein to take his life in a federal jail in New York City. This latest report lands more than four years after Epstein died by suicide at the Metropolitan Correctional Center…
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Ted Kaczynski - the domestic terrorist more commonly known as the Unabomber - has been found dead. BBC News reports that Kaczynski was found dead in his prison cell on Saturday. He was 81. Kaczynski was being held at a federal prison medical facility in North Carolina after being sentenced…
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Gypsy Rose Blanchard opened up about her feelings after she was sentenced to 10 years in prison for murdering her mother, Dee Dee, in 2015. In an interview with Dr. Phil, the now 31-year-old revealed that she didn't believe she deserved such a lengthy stint in prison for her crimes…
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A man who made a joke about marriage during an appearance on Family Feud has been found guilty of his wife's murder. On May 31, a jury in Adams County, Illinois, found Timothy Bliefnick guilty of fatally shooting his estranged wife, Rebecca Bliefnick, as reported by USA Today. In addition…
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A man who was wrongfully imprisoned for 32 years for a murder that he didn't commit has been awarded $13 million in compensation. Victor Rosario was arrested in 1982 when he was 24 after being convicted of arson and murder following a fire that took the lives of eight people,…
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A death row inmate had consumed a 29,000-calorie final meal before his execution. On June 2012, Gary Carl Simmons Jr received a lethal injection at the Mississippi State Penitentiary for the tragic murder of Jeffrey Wolfe. The former grocery store butcher used his meat carving knives to slaughter his 21-year-old…
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A Michigan mom who thought that SpongeBob had ordered her to brutally murder her three-year-old will spend the rest of her life behind bars. Justine M. Johnson, 23, was handed a life sentence without the possibility of parole after she stabbed her daughter, Sutton Marie Mosser, 17 times on September…
