All news on the topic: Prisons

The 55-year-old monster had threatened to take legal action in his bid to tie the knot with his girlfriend visitor after popping the question during one of her prison visits to the serial killer

According to prison officials he received no visitors before his execution, and he ate a last meal that consisted of a bacon cheeseburger with no bun, onion rings and a milkshake

Duane Owen, of the longest-held inmates on Florida’s death row is set to be executed tonight after killing a babysitter & mother of two while children slept nearby in 1984

Colin Pitchfork was denied parole in 2016 and 2018 after being branded a danger to the public but is now set to walk free 40 years after raping and strangling 15-year-old Lynda Mann

Heroin kingpin Sean McGovern reportedly fled prison near Dundee, Scotland, on Sunday evening after being told by police that somebody was plotting to kill him

Report into the 1,200-capacity HMP High Down in Surrey said drugs were getting into the jail through a variety of methods an identified a cheeky new technique

Babis Anagnostopoulos staged an elaborate home invasion after slaughtering his wife Caroline Crouch in May 2021 before playing the grieving husband in interviews with Greek media

Lilia Chanysheva, who was in charge of one of Alexei Navalny's regional offices, has been found guilty of a number of offences including founding a rights-violating organisation in Russia

Barbara Windsor's ex-husband Ronnie Knight has died aged 89 after battling with Parkinson's Disease. He led an interesting life, and here we take a look at the man behind the headlines

The shocking case of the mother sentenced to 28 months in prison after taking abortion pills after the legal limit has thrown up more debate over this complicated and confusing issue, and left Polly Hudson wondering what it is to be truly pro-choice

Dafydd Williams, 19, hijacked a police car before speeding at 113mph through a village - but after veering into field and trying to run away, he was caught by a police dog

A confidante of Colonel Gaddafi, who was assassinated in 2011 by Libyan rebel forces, said he allowed the Lockerbie bomber to be jailed for the attack despite knowing of his innocence

Michael Travis Leake has been detained by Russian authorities on suspicion of selling mephedrone and faces charges which carry a sentence of up to 20 years in prison - there is suspicion Russia is arresting Americans under any pretext amid the Ukraine war

Ted Kaczynski, 81, was discovered unresponsive at a federal prison in North Carolina on Saturday decades after he terrorised the US with a series of targeted bombings

Casey White, a prisoner, said that guard Vicky White who was not related to him was the first person who cared about him as he was sentenced in Alabama

Luke Richards had been due to testify against the man he said robbed him at his home in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, in November last year but refused to give evidence

The Labour Shadow Health Secretary's searingly honest book, One Boy, Two Bills and a Fry Up, charts his journey from the East End to Cambridge University and Westminster

Prisoners at HMP Full Sutton, home to killer John Cannan, enjoyed weekly walks around the 53-acre grounds but the group for over 60s has now been given the chop

Stefan Kiszko was wrongfully convicted or murdering 11-year-old Lesley Molseed in 1976 and Peter ross is so touched by his story that he visits his grave every week

Streaming giant eyes documentary on Brit who 'vanished' in 2002 and went into hiding so his wife could claim on life insurance policy

Kyle Stephenson, 32, punched Braden Stromberg, 27, in an unprovoked attack from behind causing him to smash his head on a street in Bosolver, Derbyshire, causing severe brain swelling

After over 18 years, Joran van der Sloot, the primary suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway in 2005, will finally face the US justice system over fraud allegations

Working in a maximum-security Rhode Island prison ruined a woman's love life — her energy became 'toxic' and 'pushed potential partners away,' she says

The son of Věra Škodová chokes back tears as he sees the sculpture of his mother as a young woman finally pieced back together as it once was

Former New York podiatrist Ira Bernstein has been charged with multiple felonies for attempting to solicit the murder of his wife, Susan, in 2022 just months after being released from prison