Prisoner

The Glasshouse gives paid work to women in prison to prepare them for life after release.

She added that: "People talk to them and respect them and listen to them." She said the project "has made a big difference" to the women, "because they can see that there's not this massive sign on their heads that says prisoner." She said: "I have learned a lot and I love the whole environment - the independence building, the self-esteem.

John Massey outside Pentonville Prison. HOW a prisoner serving a life sentence managed to escape over the walls of Pentonville Prison can now be revealed ...

Mr Massey who was finally released in 2018, has been working on his book for five years and covers from his childhood in Kentish Town to being one half of a bank robbing duo the police dubbed Laurel and Hardy – and his life as an armed criminal. And as the book reveals, this was not his first prison break. I was left with little choice but to take the matter in to my own hands.” Mr Massey had earned the role of a gym orderly, and staff at Pentonville had turned to him for a series of building projects and maintenance jobs. Mr Massey was convicted of the murder of Charles Higgins, a bouncer at a club on Hackney, in 1975. His breakout garnered national headlines and he was apprehended following a massive manhunt after a week on the run in Kent – where he had fled to pay a last visit to his ailing mother.

In this installment of Tales From the Clinic: The Art of Psychiatry, we discuss catatonia, originally described by Karl Kahlbaum, MD, a German psychiatrist. At ...

The initial approach to nonmalignant forms of catatonia involves a challenge of 2 mg of IV lorazepam. A positive response to the lorazepam challenge is often quickly apparent, with marked improvement in motor and speech symptoms within several minutes. [stroke](https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/stroke-awareness-issues-for-psychiatrists-to-consider), seizures, CNS lesions, infections, and systemic lupus erythematosus. At any rate, catatonia is thought to be significantly underrecognized, and it is important to routinely screen for it among hospitalized patients.5 This might include a metabolic panel, toxicology screen, infectious screen, autoimmune screen (erythrocyte sedimentation rate, C-reactive protein, antinuclear antibodies, paraneoplastic panel), creatine kinase levels (to monitor for malignant form), iron studies, electroencephalogram, head CT or MRI, and possibly a lumbar puncture.4,7-10 Catatonia is a distinct syndrome marked by a heterogeneous constellation of hallmark signs and symptoms. Drugs of abuse—including hallucinogens, stimulants, alcohol, and synthetic [cannabinoids](https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/synthetic-cannabinoids-cathinones)—and withdrawal of GABA or dopamine agonists have also been implicated. He was warmed and resuscitated with intravenous (IV) fluids and admitted to the general hospital floor, where his electrolytes were slowly corrected. He was started on a regimen of IV lorazepam 4 times daily, which was successfully transitioned to oral formulation. Upon arrival at the emergency department, he was found to be hypothermic with hypernatremia, leukocytosis, rhabdomyolysis, and an acute kidney injury. Our understanding of the neurobiology and physiological underpinnings of this disease is woefully incomplete, and we hope this installment helps shed light on catatonia and draws readers’ attention to early diagnosis of this intriguing entity. He refused to bathe or use the restroom, often urinating and defecating on himself.

Former corrections officer Alex Banta was sentenced in Springfield for his role alongside two other guards in a 2018 fatal beating.

Among them is the case of Tyson Laebie Rosario, a prisoner incarcerated at SCI-Pine Grove. Rosario is facing charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, ...

[](https://nnn.ng/#:~:text=blogger outreach cheap) [SCI](https://nnn.ng/tag/sci/)-Pine Grove. Among them is the case of Tyson Laebie Rosario, a prisoner incarcerated at

On March 10, members of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) and the Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party (SRWP) marched to the U.S. ...

[said](https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/03/10/numsa-marches-to-us-embassy-in-pretoria-to-demand-freedom-for-mumia-abu-jamal/) in a speech outside the U.S. His trial and subsequent sentencing in 1982 were marked by official misconduct, corruption, and blatant racism, with the original presiding trial Judge Albert Sabo [declaring](https://bringmumiahome.com/what-happened-at-mumias-court-date-looking-ahead/) that he was going to “help them fry the [racist slur].” The campaign comes at a time when a judgment based on an appeal, which “ [would allow for a retrial](https://www.liberationnews.org/supporters-rally-for-mumia-abu-jamal-as-court-considers-evidence-showing-police-da-corruption/)” in the matter, is expected soon due to the discovery of previously unseen exculpatory evidence. “To our disappointment as peace loving South Africans, a Black man in America is always guilty in the eyes of the police.” Figures like Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Junior, and Malcolm X became global icons—they fought and died for human justice,” NUMSA national spokesperson Phakamile Hlubi-Majola Embassy in Pretoria to demand freedom for journalist and political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal, who has been incarcerated for more than 40 years in the United States.

Louise Witteveen says her partner was abusive towards her; that didn't surprise the judge.

They then discussed what the fake aunt would say to the lawyer and Martin replied, “she’s just going to say... She now had a new house and “significant goals”. Martin confirmed he did the same. “One of her primary ones would be to be the best mother to her child,” he said. Witteveen went on to use her work email address to send her forged tangi and death notice of “Paul Martin” to another email address she had created. that her name is Rose Martin and that she needs to say that Paul Martin died”. In April, Martin and Witteveen had yet another discussion about compassionate bail, this time by using the excuse of an “unveiling”. To fulfill the fake compassionate bail application, they were told they’d get “Nikki” to accompany her to a JP to get an affidavit signed and that the lawyer would need to speak to a family member about the tangi, to which Martin said, “make that be Nikki” who they would later decide to be an “aunty”. They also discussed when the “funeral” would be and what she would say to his lawyer, emphasising to her that there “was no room for error”. The next day, he again called her and she told him that she had texted his lawyer to say that his father, Paul Martin, had died of a heart attack in the early hours of the morning. During that phone call, Martin was heard trying to memorise the date and time of his father’s death before telling her to ring his lawyer, that it was an emergency and urgent. Court documents state Martin called Witteveen, of Bucklands Beach in Auckland, to say “we are sending the lawyer thing tonight and say it’s urgent”.

Louise Witteveen faked death certificates and other documents to get her then-boyfriend and another prisoner time out.

She then used that address to send the documents on to Martin’s lawyer, to give the appearance they had been sent by another person. This time, however, the plan fell apart. Martin – who the judge said was obviously the instigator and leader of the plan – had been sentenced in December to four months of home detention. Judge Crowley said he needed to be mindful that Witteveen had the lesser role in the scheme, and thus needed a lesser sentence. The elaborate ruse initially involving the supposed death of Martin’s father – who was very much alive and well on February 1, when Witteveen sent a text message to Martin’s lawyer, advising he had died of a heart attack in the early hours of the morning. However, her forgery was revealed after it transpired the venue of a supposed headstone unveiling that one of the prisoners was going to attend had, in fact, been closed for years.

He was granted release but didn't return to jail and was arrested later. Faking Father's Death. Court documents state Martin called Witteveen, of Bucklands ...

She now had a new house and “significant goals”. They also discussed when the “funeral” would be and what she would say to his lawyer, emphasizing to her that there “was no room for error”. To fulfill the fake compassionate bail application, they were told they’d get “Nikki” to accompany her to a JP to get an affidavit signed and that the lawyer would need to speak to a family member about the tangi, to which Martin said, “make that be Nikki” who they would later decide to be an “aunty”. During that phone call, Martin was heard trying to memorize the date and time of his father’s death before telling her to ring his lawyer, that it was an emergency and urgent. Woman who helped prisoner fake his father’s death was in an abusive relationship The next day, he again called her and she told him that she had texted his lawyer to say that his father, Paul Martin, had died of a heart attack in the early hours of the morning.

Mansoor Adayfi says the brutal force-feeding methods employed on Guantanamo prisoners like him amounted to torture. He tells Richard Hall that Ron DeSantis ...

According to his account, detailed in his book, Mr Adayfi was captured by Afghan warlords and handed over to the CIA at a time the intelligence service was offering rewards. He said in the same interview that Mr DeSantis would have made sure the complaints “were addressed in a way that was consistent with the law”. The International Committee of the Red Cross, which had conducted visits to the camp since 2002, wrote to the US government in June 2004 to decry the system of interrogation there as “an intentional system of cruel, unusual and degrading treatment and a form of torture”. On the day in question, Mr Adayfi says Mr DeSantis was standing behind a fence in the yard behind the November and Oscar blocks of Camp Delta, watching him being strapped to the chair and force-fed. “Most of the people in there, once we see them, we don’t forget them,” he adds. That account of Mr DeSantis’s presence during force-feeding matches the one he gave to The Independent. Throughout lengthy questioning from The Independent about the finer details of his interactions, Mr Adayfi was insistent that the man he knew as a lawyer at Guantanamo was Mr DeSantis. Mr Adayfi’s description of his initial interaction with Mr DeSantis, for example, where he claims the young lawyer explained his role at the camp, matches the description given by Mr DeSantis’s superior of his job. In 2006, he was in the midst of a hunger strike with a number of his fellow detainees in protest over the conditions inside the notorious prison. Years later, now released from the camp without charge and trying to rebuild his life in Serbia, Adayfi came across a photograph online of someone he says he recognised from that day. There is little mention of it in his new book and he has offered few details of what he did on the campaign trail. One day, he recounts with emotion in his voice, he was strapped to a chair in the yard by his head, hands, waist and feet, and a feeding tube was forced into his nose.