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An unnamed Australian in their mid-40s was jailed last month at Perth’s District Court of Western Australia for neglecting their only child after the child was admitted to the hospital severely malnourished.

Two British pensioners in their 80s have been found dead at a Costa Blanca home after their bodies reportedly remained undiscovered for days.

Martin Jones said prisons are overcrowded for "limited benefit" as the number of offenders sent back to jail after release has more than doubled in 10 years.

A father who has spent 13 years in prison for stealing a phone and set himself alight in desperation has “totally disengaged and lost hope” after being denied a hospital transfer, his devastated family have said.

France will open its first prison dedicated to isolating the country’s top 100 drug lords in July as part of efforts to stop inmates from running criminal networks from behind bars.

Charles Bronson, who has changed his name to Charles Salvador, has been convicted multiple times since 1974 for crimes...

Guantanamo Bay’s earliest captive has finally been released after more than two decades in limbo.

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.