All news on the topic: Prisons

Colin Pitchfork, who raped and murdered two 15-year-old girls, "enjoyed some of his notoriety" after he walked free from prison according to parole board chiefs

Footballer Giovanni Padovani murdered Alessandra Matteuzzi by beating her with a hammer outside her home on August 23, 2022, in a case that sent shockwaves across Italy

Ian Butcher, from Ipswich, has been sentenced to prison for sex offences against eight people, ranging from the age of 12 to 32 - police have since commended a young girl for providing information

WARNING: VIOLENCE AND GRAPHIC INJURIES: Finley Phillips and Marzin Moshen brutally attacked Ryan Young whilst he was on duty at Bridgend HMP Parc's young offenders unit - they knocked the prison guard unconcious during the attack

Evil child killer Roy Whiting and triple murderer Robert Maudsley are amongst the notorious and dangerous criminals locked up in HMP Wakefield in West Yorkshire

The despicable murder of eight-year-old Sarah Payne horrified people up and down the country, and her vile killer Roy Whiting has repeatedly been attacked behind bars

Evil child killer Roy Whiting is locked up in HMP Wakefield alongside some of the UK's most dangerous criminals - including triple murderer 'Hannibal the Cannibal' Robert Maudsley

Paedophile killer Roy Whiting has been set upon and stabbed in prison. The monster is serving 40 years for murdering little Sarah whose body was found two weeks after she disappeared

Twisted killer Colin Pitchfork, 63, is set to be given a parole hearing after complaining to the board back in December - he murdered and assaulted two teenagers in the 1980s

Twisted Jon Venables, who murdered tot James Bulger in February 1993, reportedly bragged about how 'easy' it was to kidnap and kill the two-year-old whilst serving time in juvenile jail

Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar's heartbroken parents appeared on Monday's Good Morning Britain after Valdo Calocane was sentenced for killing their children and school caretaker Ian Coates

Gangster 'Fat' Freddie Thompson who is serving life after leading the Kinahan cartel's gang war against the Hutch rivals is back in court in Ireland for allegedly attacking prison staff

Police officers searched the home of a prison officer and found tablets sewn into his uniform, leading detectives to suspect that he was supplying inmates at Mountjoy Prison

Convicted paedophile Christian Brueckner, 47, is standing trial on Friday accused of carrying out a string of vile sex attacks in Portugal

Kane Ashcroft and Daniel Young were spotted by police hurriedly bundling a drone into a bag in a nearby park when police thwarted an attempted drop in 2021, and they ended up in jail

Attempting to escape justice, Kaitlin Armstrong, the murderer of pro-rider Moriah Wilson, spent $6,000 on plastic surgery

The new, brightly coloured uniforms are designed to be less frightening to kids at the Youth Custody Service, but officers are less than pleased at wearing their new "Teletubbie" style uniforms

Jeanette Irvine, 51, feared she would never see her children again when violent thug Marie Huggan sliced her throat open with a bottle in an unprovoked attack at De Vito's in Arbroath in July 2022.

Daisy Link this week requested to be released on house arrest pending her murder trial due to her pregnancy, which she allegedly told her mother was caused by another inmate's semen-filled glove that made its way to her

Steven Drinkwater was branded 'callous' after pocketing thousands of pounds from vulnerable mourners while working at a Wolverhampton funeral home before trying to evade justice

New dad Darren Hamilton has been spared jail after he carried out a horrific one-punch attack during a brawl in Durham city centre which left another man unconscious

Ellie Gould, 17, was murdered by her ex-boyfriend Thomas Griffiths, also 17, in 2019 - with her mum Carole, 53, marking what would have been her daughter's 22nd birthday

Tucker Carlson has been slammed as a "propagandist" who should "not be allowed back in the country" after he revealed he was in Russia to interview Vladimir Putin

An interactive map has shown the locations of deadly dog attacks across the UK, with more than half caused by XL Bully Dogs, including Esther Martin in Essex last weekend

Daniel Yates targeted the worker as he made a drop-off at the store which he had been plaguing for months with his nuisance behaviour.