All news on the topic: Prisons

Roxana Ruiz was sentenced to six years and two months in prison for "excessive use of self-defence" after she strangled the man who broke into her home, threatened and raped her

Stephen Ling stabbed Joanne Tulip 60 times before carving images including swastikas and crosses into her body in a horrific attack at his home in Northumberland

Dana Mustapha, from Cheshire, was described as having a look of "evil excitement" on one of several occasion when he was spotted pulling down his trousers, a court heard

Benjamin Schreiber said his death when his heart stopped meant his life sentence should be considered served but judges have disagreed

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has been locked in a long-running feud with entertainment giant Disney for more than a year since Disney publicly condemned a bill which would restrict lessons on sexuality in classrooms

Marques Walker, now 17, filmed himself rapping, dancing and smoking while on remand for stabbing Jermaine Cools, 14, seven times with a zombie knife in November 2021

Andrew Barlow was given 11 life sentences in 1988 for raping 11 women and two more in 2010 and 2017 when he was linked to two more through advances in DNA technology

Susan Waring was murdered by 'violent and controlling bully' Alan Edwards. He has been convicted but her body has never been found and her family want to know where she is

Suzanne, just 16 at the time, was tortured and beaten to death in a sickening crime that shocked the nation - with a 22-day trial in 1993 reducing a jury to tears before four people were convicted of. murder

Patrick Brown, 49, spent 29 years in the maximum security Louisiana State Penitentiary after being wrongfully convicted of raping his stepdaughter 6, who wasn't able to testify that it was, in fact, another family member who raped her

Callum Edwards-Pritchard returned to crime to fund private treatment for his daughter's eye surgery, but admitted in an emotional letter that he had made a massive mistake

Josef Fritzl, now aged 88, wrote letters about King Charles from prison, where he was sentenced to life imprisonment for incest, rape, coercion, false imprisonment, enslavement and negligent killing

Steven Graham, whose son Woramet Ben Taota was found dead last week, shouted: "Scum, look at me, look at me in the eye, look at me in the eye you b*****d," at his suspected killer

Caroline Crouch, 20, was murdered by her Greek husband Babis Anagnostopoulos who staged a robbery in which he hanged their pet dog to hide the crime, as he fights a life sentence

Monster Levi Bellfield, 54, has been quizzed in prison over the alleged murder of student whose body was never found following claims he admitted killing Elizabeth Chau, 19, in April 1999

Located off the north Kent coast and just 40 miles from London, the uninhabited Deadman's Island is littered with human remains and acts a grim reminder of the past

Mark Fellows, 42, dubbed The Iceman, was allegedly stabbed in the head and the neck at the maximum security HMP Wakefield on Saturday.

The family of Jordan Neely, a 30-year-old homeless Michael Jackson impersonator, has described the statement of the man accused of killing him as a "character assassination" and claims "he needs to be in prison."

Rachel Mason, the sister of Paul Mason, 52, who was killed in an attack in London by Steven Allen, has again criticised the length of sentence he face serving behind bars

Robert Findlay Smith had been sitting alone at the Alabama dinner when a churchgoer approached him and offered him to join them - he declined and then pulled out a handgun, shooting and killing three people

Darryl B. Barwick, 56, was pronounced dead at 6:14 p.m. Wednesday following a lethal injection at Florida State Prison, the office of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis said

Four inmates who escaped Raymond Detention Center in Mississippi are thought to have escaped through the ceiling to the roof where Hinds County Sheriff Tyree Jones said police believe "they possibly camped out on the roof"

Tony Oakley is one of 22 prison officers who will line the route during the King's Coronation on Saturday - he says it will be a 'once in a lifetime' opportunity

Koke, full name Sergio Contreras, played for boyhood club Malaga, Marseille and Sporting Lisbon across a globetrotting career which spanned nine countries and three continents

Netflix's new Monster series - which told the story of Jeffrey Dahmer last year - will focus on two brothers convicted of brutally killing their parents in 1989