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Stephen Bear is reportedly being freed from prison despite only serving 11 months behind bars after being sent down or 21 months for sharing revenge porn involving Georgia Harrison

Bernadette Walker, a photography student, was last seen alive on July 18, 2020, when Scott Walker collected her from his parents' house in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT. The world's worst prisons include Camp 14 Kaechon in North Korea in which inmates as young as 11 are forced into labour and Gldani Prison in Georgia where guards were exposed for rape

Jordan McSweeney, who brutally murdered Zara Aleena in 2022 after a sickening nine minute attack, was allegedly caught having sex with a female prison officer at HMP Belmarsh

Gypsy Rose Blanchard has now revealed that she is able to forgive her mother for the years of medical and emotional abuse. Significantly, Blanchard also says she forgives herself for her role in her mum’s death

For Gypsy Rose Blanchard, prison wasn't the end of the story. She has gathered a large body of fans who follow her like a Hollywood celebrity obsessing over her life and her new husband

Olympian and double amputee Oscar Pistorius, 37, has served eight-and-a-half years in prison for killing girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp - but in November was granted parole

The children of Abu Hamza, 65, a strip club bouncer turned preacher of hate, are pushing US officials to release their terrorist dad so he can have a nice "surprise" when he returns to the UK to find a new grandchild

32-year-old Gypsy Rose Blanchard, who was jailed for eight years for her part in the murder of Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, thanked well-wishers for their support and said she was “finally free”

A grieving daughter whose mum was found among the 190 decomposing bodies in Colorado has slammed the "monsters" who gave her mom's ashes - which turned out to be concrete

Patricia Baronowski-Schneider, 54, fell for a "business opportunity" and was tricked into delivering a suitcase to a man in Hong Kong. But when airport officials opened the bag it contained cocaine

Gypsy Rose Blanchard has reportedly been kicked out of Missouri as authorities become concerned that she is garnering too much attention - meaning a meeting with Taylor Swift at the Kansas City Chiefs is off the cards…

Former Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquin Guzman - known as El Chapo - will stay in his maximum security prison in Florence, Colorado after pleas to review his life sentence were ignored

Gypsy Rose Blanchard found herself the subject of internet beef mere days after she was released from prison — she posted a picture of a fake Facebook account and implored her followers to be vigilant and report similar ones

Gypsy Rose Blanchard was released early after serving 85 per cent of her ten year sentence handed down for plotting to kill her own mum who abused her for years and convinced her she was sick

Francoise Bettencourt Meyers, the reclusive 70-year-old vice-chair of the cosmetics titan L'Oreal, has become the first woman ever to amass a fortune of US$100b - but how much do we know about her?

Serial killer Robert Mawdsley was locked up in 1974 and separated from other prisoners after he killed three inmates in 1978 and has spent most of his sentence in solitary confinement

Andrew Malkinson was wrongly convicted in 2003 but his conviction was overturned by the Court of Appeal in July after new DNA evidence potentially linking another man to the crime was identified

Gypsy Rose Blanchard shared a snap of her posing in front of a mirror at her hotel room wearing the same outfit she wore the day she was released from prison — her first snap since she attained freedom

In a letter to the Mirror, prisoner John Cannan, whose bid to be freed failed in October, claimed he had been prejudiced against after police named him as the main suspect in the disappearance of Suzy

The crimes against the children came to light when Franke’s 12-year-old son, who was thin, covered in wounds and had duct tape around his ankles, escaped through a window of Hildebrandt’s house in the southern Utah city of Ivins

With Gypsy Rose Blanchard set to be released from prison today (December 28), she has now opened up on her biggest regrets in life - and says she regrets her involvement in killing her mother every single day

The Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee said prisons are at 'crisis point' as they warned that short sentences often teach people how to be 'better' criminals

Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s seven year stretch in prison for the murder of her medically abusive mother is coming to an end - and now fans are planning what she should do on her release

For more than 2,000 people their Christmas will be spent behind bars awaiting death, but what is Christmas like on death row? Inmates past and present have shared their experiences