All news on the topic: Prisons

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.

Steven Wilson was attacked after risk assessment failed to stop convicted murderer working in kitchen with access to knives

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

A Swedish court overturned her previous acquittal, sentencing former Swedbank CEO Birgitte Bonnesen to 15 months in prison for making misleading statements about the bank’s inadequate anti-money laundering measures.

The Justice Ministry is reportedly considering sending criminals from England and Wales to a Baltic state.

Sentencing of Alexander Shiplyuk is latest prison term for scientists working on military programmes

An Australian court sentenced a 29-year-old man to 17 years in prison for coercing 286 victims from several countries, including 180 children, into performing sexually explicit acts on camera or video.

Gangster Curtis ’Cocky’ Warren says he wants to be out of the ’public glare’ after admitting to breaching a Serious Crime Prevention Order he was slapped with for drug importation

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

Ksenia Khavana jailed for treason over donation to US charity that helps Ukraine

Former chief inspector of prisons Nick Hardwick says money would be better spent preventing crime

Watson, founder of Sea Shepherd and co-founder of Greenpeace, has been arrested on an international warrant and is facing charges including accomplice to assault and ship trespass

A judge found that Akter’s decision to import the poison gas from Italy on a passenger flight could have caused a "catastrophic mid-air incident and put hundreds of lives at risk"

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

Social movement is a potential tool in solving UK prison crisis by helping ex-convicts learn new skills and readjust

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

Three leaders of an extremist Jewish cult received lengthy prison sentences in U.S. court for the kidnapping and sex trafficking of a girl and boy, after they stole the minors from their mother in the dead of night and tried to smuggle them out of the country.

HMP Wandsworth has been slammed yet again as the fallout continues from the viral video that allegedly showed a guard sleeping with an inmate in one of the cells inside the prison

Former cop was lavished with gifts by lag lover who stabbed random pub-goer to death

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