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Multiple prisons in France have been the target of automatic weapon fire and burning vans and cars.

The barbaric assault on three prison officers by Manchester Arena terrorist Hashim Abedi – brother of suicide bomber Salman Abedi, who murdered 22 people in 2017 – has shaken the already strained criminal justice system.

Three prison officers were severely injured after Hashem Abedi—the brother of the Manchester Arena bomber—threw boiling oil on them and then attacked with a homemade weapon.

A prison governor, described as a ‘rising star’, is facing her own jail sentence after being convicted of misconduct.

HMP Millsike, labeled by critics as a ‘megaprison’, will contribute 1,500 spaces to the prison estate in England and Wales.

Prisoners trapped under indefinite jail terms continuing to take their own lives, say campaigners, as government resists calls to re-sentence them

A "groundbreaking" expansion at HMP Highpoint is set to make it the UK’s largest prison, with 700 additional spaces planned to be created by the summer of 2027.

A key member involved in the Aryan Brotherhood fentanyl trafficking case was sentenced to fourteen years. Authorities identified the defendant as the "transporter, pill maker, and enforcer for the leader of a drug distribution cell."

The parents of an 8-year-old girl who died after they withheld her insulin, encouraged by members of a small Christian sect who believed God would save her, have been sentenced to at least 14 years in prison.

A prison spent almost £8,000 on a fish tank for the reception while conditions for inmates were ‘squalid’.

Toni Cole, 29, was sentenced to 12 months in jail after it was discovered that she had been involved in a series of intimate encounters with a prisoner at HMP Five Wells in Northamptonshire.

The leader of the independent sentencing review has told LBC that he wants to see some women’s prisons closed and repurposed to house male inmates.

Malkinson, who spent 17 years in prison, says he plans to use interim payment to visit family in Australia.

A mum who dragged a rival parent to the ground and repeatedly kicked her in the face outside a primary school has avoided jail.

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.

The replacement for Barlinnie prison will cost almost £1 billion, almost 10 times the initial estimate.

Gaie Delap had prison term extended because contractors could not find wrist strap of right size.

Italy’s biggest influencer Chiara Ferragni could face up to five years in jail if she is found guilty of fraud over allegedly misleading her followers with the sale of limited edition Christmas cakes and Easter eggs.

A mum holding her baby slipped £2,000 worth of drugs down an inmate’s trousers while giving him a hug. Rebecca Gray was caught passing over the drugs parcel worth £2,000 at HMP Berwyn in Wrexham.

Urfan Sharif, who killed his 10-year-old daughter Sara Sharif after subjecting her to years of "horrific" abuse, has been moved to a prison dubbed ‘Monster Mansion’.

A massive prison break has occurred in the city of Goma – M23 rebels stormed the city and announced its ’liberation’, as the UN has called for the rebels to ’cease all hostilities’.

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.