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Lawyer-turned-murderer Alex Murdaugh has been using a tablet to take selfies in his maximum-security prison cell that showcase his chalky torso as he grins into the camera - while serving a life sentence for the grisly murders of his wife and child

34-year-old Michael Burham escaped from prison in Pennsylvania after fashioning a rope out of bedsheets and climbing onto the roof before rappelling down and running off into the woods

Former prison guard Roberta Bell defied the rules by taking in an inmate's newborn baby, leading to her termination, but she says she has no regrets as she believed it was the right thing to do

Stephen Wynne, who was 26 at the time, attacked Chantel Taylor on March 13, 2004, when she was just 27 years old - but her disappearance remained a mystery for more than a year

Teachers, troops, prison officers, police, junior doctors and consultants are being offered pay rises - but critics warned that failing to fully fund the wage increases would mean cuts elsewhere

The mutiny led by Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin was a direct challenge to Russian leader Vladimir Putin's authority and many say has significantly weakened his position within the country

Convicted sex abuser Larry Nassar was allegedly stabbed after making vile comments about Wimbledon, the suspect told prison authorities

Wagner mercenary group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin led what appeared to be a failed coup attempt that was called off less than 24 hours from it starting, angering Vladimir Putin

Leslie Van Houten was part of the notorious cult behind the brutal slaying of actress Sharon Tate and a number of others. They hoped to initiate a race war that would consume the US with the Manson Family emerging to rule afterwards

Michael Burham, who escaped from a Warren County, Pennsylvania, prison on Thursday night, may have been spotted overnight. The manhunt for the fugitive continues

Unearthed footage shows evil cult leader Charles Manson giving his followers coded messages - one of the female members of the murderous Manson Family cult Leslie Van Houten was today released after over 50 years in jail

Dozens of children’s rights campaigners have written to the Government to say they are 'gravely concerned about the appalling, potentially unlawful treatment of children and young people in custody'

Over 150 law enforcement officials have been brought in to hunt for the missing arson suspect Michael Burham after he busted Warren County Jail in Pennsylvania by using bed sheets as rope

What's happening in the woods around where Michael Burham escaped from a Warren County, Pennsylvania, prison last week? Survival experts have some ideas and also shared what it might take to catch him

British soldier Aiden Aslin spent months on 'death row' waiting to be executed after being caught by Russian forces fighting for Ukraine - but was finally saved by an unlikely figure

Because he’d killed abroad, John Arthur Getreu's DNA wasn’t on a US criminal database, so investigators collected a disposable coffee cup that he’d discarded, which proved he was a match

Former model Katie Price has appeared to hint going to prison would create extra chapters in her autobiography after she swerved her latest bankruptcy hearing

Michaella McCollum, from Co Tyrone in Northern Ireland, has turned her life around after a prison stretch in Peru - where she was jailed for trying to smuggle 11kg of cocaine out of the country with her accomplice Melissa Reid

On December 28, 2021 single parent Mehdi (Yasser) Akbari was left in despair after he learned that his only child, Amir-Ali, had passed away at a care facility while he was still trapped inside the notorious Evin prison on the outskirts of Tehran

Curtis Warren, a notorious drug dealer has been arrested by the National Crime Agency at the Tyneside home of his partner who he had an affair with while he was behind bars

The Prime Minister read a famous passage from Matthew's Gospel where Jesus teaches the disciples about the importance of helping strangers

The Chief Prisons Inspector warned violence levels were too high in men’s and youth prisons while women’s prisons had 'staggeringly high levels of self-harm'

Officers seized mobile devices, documents and a quantity of cash in the early-morning operation in Boldon Colliery, South Tyneside that saw the Liverpool criminal arrested

Labour MP Kate Osamor will tell a Westminster Hall debate that victims put in jail are overrepresented by Black, Asian and minority ethnic women and girls

Lord Chancellor Alex Chalk has asked a Parole Board to reconsider its decision to allow double child killer Colin Pitchfork to be released, said the Ministry of Justice