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 nation’s jails – as a way of avoiding an infections ‘catastrophe’ – has been resoundingly trashed by Opposition
Judges call on government to release 1400 prisoners
With the situation in the nation’s 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 €125,000 in compensation
A Portuguese electrician – wrongly convicted for a crime he didn’t commit in Oman, and left without any effective consular assistance for months – has won €125,000 in compensation. Lisbon’s
British inmate caught ‘oiled up’ trying to slide through cell window at Lisbon jail
A 30-year-old British man was caught red-handed trying to escape from Lisbon’s jail (EPL) on Monday. Marco Roscaleer, kept in custody since May for crimes of theft and kidnapping that
Olhão jail gets three new rooms for “conjugal visits”
Following news that Olhão’s jail is due to go from being a prison for men to “one exclusively for women” (click here), another report has surfaced about the jail inaugurating
Marcelo visits women prisoners and their children in Tires for “spiritual solidarity”
Profoundly religious, Portugal’s 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 Sócrates’ “Operation Marquês”
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 “due to lack of guards”
Two young convicts broke out of jail “the old fashioned way” on Sunday evening in Leiria, in a third “prison break” of its kind from the same establishment. As the