All news on the topic: Prisons

Malcolm Day, 81, from Adelaide, Australia, wants to take his own life under euthanasia laws and is believed to be near the end of the application process to be granted a permit

Hayley Turner, Britain’s winning-most female jockey, said she had to call in the police after the correspondence took a turn for the worst

Matthew Tinling is currently serving two life sentences for sawing through a former soldier's spine to paralyse him before killing him, and launching a vicious knife attack on another inmate in 2016

Amid claims that Sheerness in Kent is one of the most dangerous places to live in the UK locals have rallied around their home which they say retains a rare community spirit

Thomas McCabe, 59, was sentenced to life for murder in 1990, and is currently at large after failing to return to prison on Wednesday, said police in Northern Ireland

Steve Reed, Labour’s Shadow Justice Secretary said: “No one will take any lessons from this soft-on-crime Tory government."

After taking legal advice, the refugees are vowing to band together to resist going back to the barge accommodation as one claims conditions on board are causing 'distress'

The payouts awarded by Powerball and other types of lotteries can be eye watering but that comes with its own risks. Families revelling in their newfoudn wealth have been known to be hit with lawsuits and even have to hire security

Donald Trump’s former national security advisor John Bolton claims the former President deliberately looked like a “thug” in his mugshot

Kandice Barber has reportedly been sneaking off with her new fraudster girlfriend Jay Delaney when she should have been working on a building site in west London

The former NHS nurse bought the ordinary three-bedroom property in Chester for £179,000 in April 2016 and lived there whilst carrying out her cold-blooded, evil crimes

Double murderer Stephen Farrow, 58, has died at HMP Frankland where he was serving a whole life term for the killings of Betty Yates, 77, and Rev John Suddards, 58

Kristin Smart's killer was seriously injured in a prison attack after he was convicted 25 years after the 19-year-old's disappearance. Authorities and officials disagree on why he is in hospital.

Yevgeny Prigozhin has been a dead man walking for two months since his so-called “march on Moscow” mutiny faltered - his death was inevitable after going too far for Vladimir Putin

Evil baby killer Lucy Letby, who is the fourth woman in Britain to be handed a whole-life sentence, will spend the rest of her life behind bars, rubbing shoulders with some of the most notorious female murderers

Facing 13 felony criminal charges in Georgia for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, Donald Trump will be booked into a Fulton County jail notorious for its horrific conditions. Figures from the sheriff's office indicate that the jail averages about one stabbing per day.

Up to 85% of people in prison may be neurodiverse - it speaks volumes about how the legal system is a blunt instrument with little understanding of how to the Equality Act

Britain's most prolific female serial killer Lucy Letby will live out the rest of her days behind bars with little human interaction, confined to her cell for her own safety

The haunting Horse and Jockey Pub in Saddleworth, Oldham, used to host Moors murderers Myra Hindley and Ian Brady before they committed their evil crimes in the 60s

Forensic psychiatrist Dr Sohom Das says Lucy Letby is the "most extraordinary and unique clinical case" he's ever encountered and does not believe it will be possible to fully understand her

James Burke, a former Long Island police chief who served federal prison time for beating a suspect in the Gilgo Beach murders probe was arrested Tuesday for allegedly soliciting sex and exposing himself at a public park

A prison guard in a St. Louis jail was taken hostage and released several hours later, as the inmates demanded more hot food options in the cafeteria, like pizza and chicken

El Salvador's prison system is buckling under the strain of the sheer numbers of inmates as the current administration cuts down on cartels and their footsoldiers

Aisha Golsby has been sentenced to 16 months in prison for warning her lover of a cell search - the pair fell in love after exchanging Instagram messages on a contraband phone

Spanish authorities have now revealed that the eight men did not know each other prior to the 'gang-rape' during which they encouraged each other to commit at the BH Mallorca Reosrt