Faro prison virus outbreak: 62 inmates and four prison officers test positive for Covid-19
Sixty-two inmates and four prison officers at Faro prison have tested positive for Covid-19, the board of reinsertion and prison services (DGRSP) announced on Sunday. A contingency plan was put
Left-wingers vote for mass pardons to free-up space in Portuguese jails
Left-wingers voted last night for mass pardons to free up space in Portuguese jails. The move will see around 2000 prisoners released, many of them on the last leg of
Plan to free up to 2700 prisoners trashed by Opposition
The government plan to free as many as 2700 prisoners from the nationâs jails – as a way of avoiding an infections âcatastropheâ – has been resoundingly trashed by Opposition
Judges call on government to release 1400 prisoners
With the situation in the nationâs overcrowded jails on a knife-edge due to Covid-19, a group of judges is calling on the government to approve an exceptional law that will
Innocent Portuguese electrician left months without consular assistance in Arab jails wins âŹ125,000 in compensation
A Portuguese electrician – wrongly convicted for a crime he didnât commit in Oman, and left without any effective consular assistance for months – has won âŹ125,000 in compensation. Lisbonâs
British inmate caught âoiled upâ trying to slide through cell window at Lisbon jail
A 30-year-old British man was caught red-handed trying to escape from Lisbonâs jail (EPL) on Monday. Marco Roscaleer, kept in custody since May for crimes of theft and kidnapping that
OlhĂŁo jail gets three new rooms for âconjugal visitsâ
Following news that OlhĂŁoâs jail is due to go from being a prison for men to âone exclusively for womenâ (click here), another report has surfaced about the jail inaugurating
Marcelo visits women prisoners and their children in Tires for âspiritual solidarityâ
Profoundly religious, Portugalâs new president Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa left his studies of the 2016 State Budget to one side over the weekend to visit Tires female prison in Cascais
New shock threatens SĂłcratesâ âOperation MarquĂȘsâ
Super-judge Carlos Alexandre is reported to have a new shock on his hands today: the fact that two of the men detained along with José Sócrates as a result of
Latest prison break âdue to lack of guardsâ
Two young convicts broke out of jail âthe old fashioned wayâ on Sunday evening in Leiria, in a third âprison breakâ of its kind from the same establishment. As the