All news on the topic: Prisons

Rapist Isla Bryson has claimed a breach of human rights after a fellow inmate was charged with a hate crime

The country was left shocked after Jon Venables and Robert Thompson kidnapped little James Bulger and tortured and killed him in Bootle, Merseyside in 1993

WARNING - GRAPHIC CONTENT: Police called to minor accident overpowered by the stench of death coming from killer’s van

Brady and Hindley were jailed for the brutal murders of Lesley Ann Downey, 10, John Kilbride, 12, and 17-year-old Edward Evans. Years later while in prison they also confessed to the murders of Keith Bennett, 12, and 16-year-old Pauline Reade

Wendy Jane Marais was headed to Narita, Japan on a long-haul flight from Mexico, but was stopped when she arrived on a stopover in Manila

Stephen Gillen, 52, who operated in London's East End criminal underworld for three decades, said he was groomed into a life of crime and over the years, was in and out of prison - doing his first stretch when he was just 14

HMP Fosse Way is a state-of-the-art 'resettlement' jail for prisoners nearing the end of their sentences, and is one of the world’s first ultra low-carbon prisons

Paul Smith, 65, has been flashing at the public since he was just 14 and says he can't stop himself, despite several prison sentences and court orders trying to curb his behaviour

A woman on TikTok has gone viral for showing her followers how to make prison makeup using flour, Pepsi, and cocoa mix

James Boyle forced his victim to be cross-examined for three days during the trial. At sentencing the judge said “You showed her no mercy then just as you had her at your mercy as a child"

Trevor Raekwon Seward, 25, has been convicted of killing a mail carrier who instead of delivering a large package of marijuana to his home left a note in the mailbox asking him to pick it up

TikTok user Nesha went viral this week after she announced her pregnancy via the internet, but in a twist, she claims she managed to conceive with her fiancee, Twinoo, who is currently incarcerated after he was able to 'send his sperm through the mail'

Prison staff in England and Wales reported low morale, concerns about bullying and abuse from inmates, a bombshell report by the Justice Committee found

Photographs taken at HMP Frankland in County Durham show the inmate lying on the roof - in just his underwear - amid a tense showdown with prison staff and riot police

John Griffin worked as a television producer at CNN for eight years before being terminated after his sickening crimes came to light including derogatory language about women

Joshua Declan Thomas, then aged 15, was among the youths who viciously punched, kicked, and stamped on Ben Bellamy after luring him to the beach on Swansea seafront in 2005.

At least 41 inmates at the Penitenciaria Nacional Femenina de Adaptación Social in Tamara, Honduras, were killed in a major fire following a vicious brawl between gangs

Nathan Carman, 28, was facing eight charges in relation to his mother's death who drowned while on a boating trip with her son - he also faced charges over the death of his grandfather

Over 30 million people watched the discovery of two dead bodies on a Seattle beach as police launched a hunt to track down the killer

Two soldiers, aged 25 and 28, have spoken about their experiences after spending one and three months respectively in the company of Vladimir Putin's sick troops

Murderer Levi Bellfield, who killed three young woman, recently found out he would be allowed the day off prison work to get married, and reportedly wants a former X-Factor contestant's song played during the ceremony

Inmates at HMP Highpoint in Suffolk offers comedy scriptwriting courses, in addition to offer programmes, so prisoners can learn how to replicate sitcoms like Porridge

King Charles's list ranges from a grieving mother who turned a tragedy into a charity honouring their legacy, a 106-year-old fundraising through exercise, and those aiding Ukrainian refugees

Jamie Russell was slapped with a prison sentence after he failed to notify anyone that the corpse of his friend Matthew Scott, 42, was rotting away on a mattress in his bedroom in Swansea

Sean McGovern, 39, was reported missing from the open prison near Dundee at 10pm on Sunday with the police urging the pubic to avoid approaching and interacting with him