All news on the topic: Prison

More than a year after OCCRP and CIReN reported on the two-decade legal saga of lawyer Christos Christodoulides — who absconded from a U.K. prison after a 2005 sentence for immigration fraud — the Cyprus Bar Association has decided to temporarily suspend his law license.

More than 20 humanitarian workers are set to stand trial in Greece on migrant-smuggling and money-laundering charges, seven years after authorities arrested them for their work rescuing migrants and refugees at sea. If convicted, they face up to 20 years in prison.

“Dr. Evil,” the alleged sadistic Russian prison medic, exposed by OCCRP and RFE/RL Schemes, has been charged in absentia by Ukraine with war crimes.

Nicolas Sarkozy is set to publish a book next month titled A Prisoner’s Diary, detailing his 20 days in jail.

A 27-year-old NHS worker has been found guilty of sexually assaulting two patients while conducting bladder scans during his time as a trainee at a hospital in Wales.

Lisa Clarke, 53, was involved in a gang that brutally killed former soldier Brian Farmer by stabbing him and pouring boiling water over him at his home in Birmingham.

Prison unions have warned the system “could collapse” as one in 25 prison service staff face deportation under new visa rules.

Ghislaine Maxwell said she was “much happier” after being moved to a minimum-security prison, emails show.

A child killer who was serving a life sentence for murdering his two-year-old stepdaughter has been found dead in prison.

Scotland’s new £1bn super-prison will be too small to solve an overcrowding crisis despite costing the same to build as a five-star Dubai hotel, Anas Sarwar has warned.

A pregnant British teenager accused of drug-smuggling has been moved to a mother-and-baby unit in a Georgian prison, her mother said.

A former policeman has been found guilty of second-degree murder after the fatal shooting of a woman in the US.

The Criminal Court has sentenced two employees of the Public Authority for Civil Information and an expatriate representative to five years in prison.

Protesters returned to Morocco’s streets a month after anti-corruption rallies swept the country, this time demanding freedom and justice for more than 1,500 detained demonstrators. Hundreds have already been sentenced to up to 15 years in prison.

A mother said, ’she felt the wind knocked out of her’ when her daughter’s rapist avoided prison because of his age.

A knife-wielding con got close enough to Diddy to press a makeshift blade to his throat, the rapper’s best friend has exclusively told.

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy entered a prison in Paris on Tuesday on the first day of a five-year sentence, marking the first time a former leader of modern France has spent time behind bars.

Over 6,500 of the most serious offenders, including killers, rapists, and pedophiles, will qualify for early release from prison under Labour’s sentencing plans, according to the Tories.

Protesters have gathered in northern Germany demanding the prime suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann be ousted from where they live.

A woman who permitted Lostprophets frontman Ian Watkins to sexually abuse her baby is appealing for her release from prison.

Tommy Robinson refused to provide his phone pin when the police stopped his Bentley on the way to Benidorm, a court has heard.

The former Lostprophets singer and convicted child sexual abuser Ian Watkins has died following an attack in prison.

A pregnant woman who managed to siphon off more than £900,000 by forging her boss’s signature has been ordered to pay back just £221,000 or go to prison.