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Next to a vandalised wire fence opposite HMP Bronzefield in Surrey, 28-year-old Beatrice Auty brushes away tears. The memories of her time inside the jail are too much to bear.

‘Horrendous’ MoJ figures show some prisoners given indeterminate sentences in England and Wales before 2008 still behind bars

Around 1,100 prisoners have started to be released from prison early as part of a plan to ease overcrowding in prisons.

Teenager alleged to have been recruited by prisoner who later called police to report him over killing of taxi driver

Alan Miller, 59, second person in US to be executed via controversial technique, shook and trembled on gurney

The Ministry of Justice has admitted 37 prisoners were wrongly released under Labour’s plans to reduce overcrowding in jails.

Serco says it is working to fit electronic devices, which were a condition of early release of 1,700 last week

Fighting to keep Sean “Diddy” Combs out of jail after his sex trafficking arrest, the music mogul’s lawyers highlighted a litany of horrors at the Brooklyn federal lockup where he was headed: horrific conditions, rampant violence and multiple deaths.

Adam Andrews is due to be released despite leaving a baby boy with injuries so severe that he now needs round-the-clock care and suffers from about 40 seizures a day

Prisoners released early under a government overcrowding scheme voiced concerns about housing support and strict tagging conditions

A British prisoner serving time at a Portuguese jail for kidnap and robbery has managed to escape by ‘climbing up a ladder’.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ), said it had "inherited a justice system in crisis".

Ministers activate Operation Early Dawn, so defendants can be held in police cells as more are sentenced over riots

Among the Russians freed in this week’s historic exchange of prisoners between Russia and the West was a Russian-born freelance journalist from Spain who had been based in Poland since 2019

Kris Maharaj was convicted of the murder of a father and son back in 1986, but he always maintained his innocence. In 2019 a judge ruled he had proved so.

One of Vladimir Putin’s top enemies – who is a Russian-British citizen – will be released from a penal colony as part of a high-profile exchange of prisoners between Russia and the West, it is understood.

The 64-year-old Missouri woman’s conviction was overturned last month, but has since gone through a legal rigmarole preventing her from being released

Graham Gomm, 63, had been on remand for burglary offences at HMP Wormwood Scrubs

Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood gave details of the early release scheme for prisoners as she confirmed how many offenders will be let out in a Commons statement

With Labour plan not coming into effect until September, ex-prison governor says emergency measures can only ‘keep a lid on things’

An infamous gangster known as ‘big Viking Stomper’ has been caught after escaping prison in late May.

Heads of prisons say they will no longer be able to accept new inmates ‘very soon’ after 4 July election