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Cardiff's original court and gaol were located within the walls of Cardiff Castle. Whilst the court moved within the castle walls, the gaol was always located within the Black Tower. [ 1 ] The earliest surviving gaol record is a Gaol Calendar from 1542, at which time the castle was still used. [ 2 ]
Three years later one of Cardiff's Assistant Governors was found dead after an investigation into child pornography. The manager had been arrested at the prison days earlier by detectives investigating the alleged misuse of a personal computer. [5] Cardiff Prison was criticised in 2001 for its cell-share policy in the wake of an inmate's death.
Cardiff (1832) a Category B men's prison, Parc (1997) a Category B men's private prison and Young Offenders Institution, based in Bridgend, is Wales' only privatised prison and is presently run by G4S, Swansea (1861) a Category B/C men's prison. Wales has no prison for either women or Category A offenders, who must be housed in gaols in England.
Massey was a convicted armed robber incarcerated at HM Prison Cardiff at the same time as Tony Paris and John Actie. He agreed to act as a police informant against the men in return for "representations made by the police" to his forthcoming Parole Board hearing, and gave evidence at their trial that Paris had confessed to White's murder in his ...
The Cardiff Newsagent Three were three men wrongly convicted of the 1987 murder of Cardiff newsagent Phillip Saunders, who was attacked with a shovel in the back yard of his Cardiff home and later died in hospital. [1] Michael O'Brien, Darren Hall and Ellis Sherwood were arrested and spent 11 years in prison before being released.
More than 800 people have lost their lives in jail since July 13, 2015 but few details are publicly released. Huffington Post is compiling a database of every person who died until July 13, 2016 to shed light on how they passed.
The discovery follows a suspected car crash on the A48 near St Mellons
In 1996 the family was given permission to have Mattan's body exhumed and moved from a felon's grave at the prison to be buried in consecrated ground in a Cardiff cemetery. [3] His tombstone says: "KILLED BY INJUSTICE." [19] When the Criminal Cases Review Commission was set up in the mid 1990s, Mattan's case was the first to be referred by it.