A statewide manhunt is underway in Arkansas after former police chief Grant Hardin escaped from the North Central Unit prison, where he was serving a 30-year sentence for murder and rape. The Arkansas Department of Corrections announced Hardin’s escape on Sunday, revealing that he disguised himself in a makeshift law enforcement outfit to evade capture. Authorities said Hardin was not wearing a Department of Corrections uniform, and all official equipment remains accounted for.
The Cuban communist regime has released Evangelical pastor Luis Guillermo Borjas from custody, but both he and his wife, Pastor Roxana Rojas, still face charges of “contempt” and “disobedience” in a Cuban military court on June 9. Their crime? Defending their son, Kevin Lay Laurencio Rojas, a young man facing trial for deserting the regime’s brutal, compulsory military service.
Milwaukee Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan faces up to six years in federal prison after being indicted by a grand jury for allegedly helping an illegal alien evade arrest by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The charges stem from an April 18, 2025, incident in which Dugan is accused of knowingly obstructing a federal agency and concealing the whereabouts of Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, an illegal migrant with a violent criminal record.
Police are investigating a violent incident at HMP Belmarsh after Axel Rudakubana, the 18-year-old triple child killer from Southport, allegedly attacked a prison officer with boiling water. The inmate is said to have heated water in a kettle inside his cell and poured it over the officer on Thursday.
An MS-13 gang member known as “Anticristo” has been sentenced to 55 years in prison for orchestrating and participating in the 2017 slayings of four young men in a New York park. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York announced Wednesday that Omar Antonio Villalta pleaded guilty to his role in the premeditated killings carried out by more than a dozen MS-13 members and associates.
President Donald Trump has directed federal agencies to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz Island as a high-security prison, aiming to detain violent repeat offenders and criminal illegal aliens.
Tony Holden, a 60-year-old American defense contractor, has been released after spending 903 days imprisoned in Kuwait. Holden, arrested in 2022 on fabricated drug charges, thanked President Donald Trump directly for helping secure his freedom in an emotional video shared with media following his release.
California is advancing a $239 million taxpayer-funded initiative to transform San Quentin State Prison into a rehabilitation center, a move that has sparked controversy among some legal professionals.
A Chinese national convicted of setting fire to a historic church in Montgomery, Alabama, is now facing additional federal charges after allegedly escaping from prison late last year. Xiaoquin Yan, 31, had been serving a sentence for arson at the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut, when she reportedly fled the facility on December 10, 2024.
