All news on the topic: Prisons

Kwami Richards, 42, escaped from the van outside Brixton Police Station in South London at 2pm yesterday - police chased him into Brixton Underground Station where he jumped on a train

A texas girl born in prison has defied the odds after graduating third in her class and secured a full scholarship to Harvard

Former soldier turned ISIS member Lisa Smith was described as a model prisoner, which allowed her to have an early release from Limerick Prison

A two-year-old is set to spend his entire life in a prison camp after his Christian parents were found with a Bible in their homes, according to a report by the US State Department

George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin On May 25, 2020, and a wave of social justice protests followed around the world as people came to terms with the vicious killing

US Capitol rioter Richard Barnett, who put his feet on Nancy Pelosi's desk, is sentenced to over four years in prison for his role in the riot

George Floyd was killed after he was restrained by officers, with one keeping their knee on his neck for almost 10 minutes as Mr Floyd repeatedly told them he "can't breathe" and that they were "going to kill" him

Ellie Jacobs, 19, from Biddlesden, Buckinghamshire, was jailed for five years after admitting the manslaughter and child cruelty following the death of five-week-old Archie

Police in Ohio and Kentucky have been warned an escaped killer fled prison on Monday - Bradley Gillespie is serving two life sentences for butchering a couple in 2016

Lisnevin Training School Borstal in Millisle, Northern Ireland, opened in 1973 but closed down in 2003 due to allegations of neglect, abuse, and overcrowding

Dad-of-four Jamie is a shadow of his former self and ten years after running his thriving business the drugs addict pounds the streets in search of his next heroin fix

Former Pittsburgh Steelers running back Eric Wilkerson, one of the best players in Kent State's history, will spend more than a decade in prison after admitting his part in the death of Brian Weems III

Attorneys representing the family of Fulton County Jail inmate Lashawn Thompson, 35, have said he suffered 'extreme neglect' by prison staff after Thompson was allegedly 'eaten alive by bugs'

Jake Fahri, then aged 19, attacked Jimmy Mizen at a London bakery in May 2008, grabbing a glass baking dish before smashing it into the youngster's face causing a fatal injury to his neck

Sarah Spurrell, 44, accused Sussex police of treating her as a “complete and utter joke” after the vicious assault in January 2004 - she only found out about Bellfield’s confession, allegedly made earlier this year, when she was told this month by ITV News London

Horrific paedophile Sidney Cooke, 96, has failed in his 11th bid for freedom after the Parole Board decided he still poses a "very high risk of serious harm to children"

David Hunter, a 75-year-old retired coal miner from Northumberland, is standing trial in Cyprus for premeditated murder after a plea deal on the lesser charge of manslaughter collapsed

34-year-old Anthony Michael Corrado allegedly beat his grandma to death in her gated community Naples home before calling a housekeeper to help him clean up his bloody crime scene

Leo Goatley represented West after she and her husband were first arrested in 1994 at the home where they raped and killed many of their victims - and he has now urged her to 'find redemption' by confessing

Timothy Schofield, younger brother of TV star Phillip Schofield, was sentenced to 12 years in prison at Bristol Crown Court earlier today, after being convicted of 11 sexual offences involving a child at Exeter Crown Court last month

Nathaniel Rook, 52, failed to arrive to his probation appointments and was jailed for two days and subjected to a two-month curfew before promising to engage with prison services

Reyna Elizabeth Flores-Rosales was sentenced for torturing, starving and killing her six-year-old son who was having issues over potty training

Natalia Arno, head of the Free Russia Foundation, claims she returned to find her hotel door was mysteriously left open and the “smell of cheap perfume” before falling ill

Peter Nash, 47, has been jailed for a minimum of 40 years for the murders of his wife Jilly Nash, 43, and their 12-year-old autistic daughter Louise last September

Jessica Camilleri faced a murder trial in Sydney, Australia, in 2020 but was found guilty by a jury of manslaughter over the death of her mum Rita at their home