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Campaigners have warned UK prisons are 'bursting at the seams' following an overcrowding crisis - it comes after the Scottish Prison Service’s revealed ten prisons operating at over 100pc capacity

Suspected killer Kevin Mason walked out of jail after a number of clerical mistakes cleared him for release. Both clerks deemed responsible have been fired and his girlfriend has been arrested over suspicions she helped him

After the death of her son Jordan Brooks, who had cerebral palsy, Lisa Marie Waldron kept using his benefits for a year to pay for fast food and fund a trip to Myrtle Beach

Residents have reported being harassed by 'crazed animal' prisoners as they walk through the streets next to HMP & YOI Stirling as complaints over the ‘non-stop’ noise are lodged

Virginia McCullough is accused of murdering her mum and dad, John and Lois, sometime in the last five years. She was told a two-week trial is set for May next year

Prison governor Vanessa Frake says far from being led into a world of torture, murder and sick sexual abuse by her husband Fred, Rose West was a monster in her own right

Former Crewe Alexandra coach Barry Bennell, 69, died on Saturday at HMP Littlehey in Cambridgeshire, where he was serving a 34-year sentence for child sex offences

The conversation was recorded between Dahmer, who killed 17 young men and boys in Wisconsin and Ohio in a grotesque spree of rape and cannibalism, and his father Lionel

The evil nurse, who is now Britain's worst child serial killer, had just one word to offer the devastated parents of the seven babies she callously killed during her time at The Countess of Chester Hospital's neonatal unit

Cold-blooded serial killer Lucy Letby will never return to the semi-detached Chester property she once called home, where she lived during her spate of heinous crimes

Killer and drug dealer Glen Stewart Godwin escaped from Folsom State Prison in 1987 and years later also managed to run away from a jail in Mexico. He is still on the run to this day

The argument for hiring them is that they know better than anyone what life is like inside - but we are on the side of the argument against it by the Prison Officers Association

Bosses want 'big numbers' of former convicts working inside because they have 'lived experience' - it is understood they can apply to work in rehabilitation roles

Serial killer Lucy Letby will have a target on her head for the rest of her life behind bars, after being handed a whole-life sentence for murdering six innocent babies and deliberately harming six more

Murderer Jimmy L. Glass was executed in an electric chair in Louisiana on June 12, 1987, and just before dying the 25-year-old said he would rather be fishing

Robert Maudsley has been described as so dangerous he will never be released. Prison guards have locked him in a 'one-of-a-kind' dungeon to prevent him killing other prisoners

Residents living near the new prison for women say they can hear the inmates swearing and threatening to kill one another

Baby murderer Lucy Letby will die in prison alongside several notorious British female killers, after being sentenced to a whole-life order for her sickening crimes

Danelo Cavalcante escaped Chester County Prison while awaiting transfer to state prison on August 31 after being sentenced to life in prison for fatally stabbing his ex-girlfriend in 2021

The dramatic finish marks the end of a two-week long manhunt that terrified communities across Pennsylvania as escaped murderer Danelo Cavalcante repeatedly managed to avoid the multiple agencies chasing him

Emma Coronel Aispuro, 34, the wife of infamous drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman is due to be released from a residential re-entry facility in Long Beach, California, after serving her sentence for drug trafficking

Michael McDonagh was "failed" by HMP Forest Bank, his mum Margaret Pomeroy says, after an inquest heard misadministration of his methadone prescription led to his death

Frank Noon, 66, from Chiswick, west London, believes he saw fugitive and 21-year-old terror suspect, Daniel Khalife, twice the day before he was eventually arrested

Danelo Cavalcante was recently spotted on a doorbell camera at the home of one of his former associates in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. The convicted murder has managed to evade police for two weeks

Danelo Cavalcante has managed to evade capture by several law enforcement agencies for nearly two weeks despite having been spotted around eight times since fleeing prison on August 31