All news on the topic: Prisons

The father of infamous American serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer died in hospice care at the age of 87, it has been reported. Lionel Dahmer supported and defended his son until his dying day

Tanya Palmer was involved in a collision with a suspected drink driver when she was a mere 22 weeks pregnant. She experienced several injuries, such as a significant cut in the middle of her forehead and a dislocated shoulder

Louis Theroux interviews Iraq War whistleblower Chelsea Manning in a bid to understand what drove her to risk everything to make the documents public as well as the enormous impact it has had on her life since

Twisted NHS nurse Lucy Letby is currently serving life behind bars, after murdering babies in her care and becoming only the fourth woman in Britain to be handed a whole-life order

Mark Latham, 52, has been given a five-year criminal behaviour order after targeting a number of small businesses across Ellesmere Port, causing considerable damage to each of them

Isaac Lowe, 36, from Stockton, admitted to burglary before he broke down in tears after the court heard how he ruthlessly stole money from a pensioner couple inside their home

A YouTuber has been sentenced to six months in prison for deliberately crashing a plane before destroying all evidence of the crash. The convict says the courts made the “right decision”

Elvara Price admitted a charge of witness intimidation after the incident in Hull earlier this year, which was sparked by earlier trouble between the neighbours and their children

Shepton Mallet Prison in Somerset is closing on January 2, 2024, its operators have announced. Since being decommissioned in 2013, guided tours have been held at the prison

Attacker Armand R., a 25-year-old French Islamist with mental health issues, knifed a German tourist to death and left two more wounded, including a British national, after going on a rampage near the Eiffel Tower in Paris

Mum-of-three Laura Joyce could face at least six years in prison should she be found guilty of scamming hotels in Majorca, with allegations of fraudulent claims and organised gangs presented

By January this year, 39,000 people in El Salvador had been charged with the crime of "unlawful association" and 8,000 with membership to a "terrorist organisation"

Derek Chauvin, 47, was reportedly stabbed 22 times by a fellow inmate with an improvised knife in the law library at the Federal Correctional Institution in Tucson, Arizona

I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! star Tony Bellew lead a very different life before his boxing career saw him gain celebrity status – as he dabbled in a life of crime

Britain's most prolific child killer Lucy Letby has reportedly moved prisons and has been granted privileges other 'furious' inmates are forced to wait much longer for

Devastated mother Leanne Depa has apologised to son's victim and asked her to be merciful but attacked teacher wants the teenager to be locked up for maximum of 30 years

Former NHS neonatal nurse Lucy Letby is now serving a life sentence behind bars, where reports claim she is 'happy as Larry' thanks to an apparent change in her circumstances

Phillip Hancock is set to be executed this morning after spending decades protesting his innocence after a 2001 double murder. Hancock claims he was set on by two attackers when the killings took place

Lucy Letby has been moved to the UK's biggest female only prison, HMP Bronzefield, where she is said to be enjoying home comforts like an ensuite bathroom, her own TV and telephone

Lucy Letby, 33, served as a neonatal nurse at the Countess of Chester hospital and between 2015 and 2016 went on a horrific murder spree, killing seven babies and trying to kill six others

Monique Olivier, the wife of French serial killer Michel Fourniret, is standing trial in Nanterre, Paris, for Joanna’s brutal death and two other grisly killings

Martin Hayes was found guilty of manslaughter at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin, Ireland, following the death of his partner Amadea McDermott in July 2017

The Kardashians star was teased by her daughter as she mocked her for not being able to cook and questioned what it is she does in her professional life

Jabar Walker was sentenced to 50 years behind bars in 1998 after his wrongful conviction for a double murder. Having served half of the sentence, an investigation into corrupt policing has now freed him

Rhianon Bragg, 51, from Gwynedd, north Wales, has hit out at the decision to release from jail her "delusional" former partner Gareth Wyn Jones who stalked her and held her at gunpoint for eight hours