All news on the topic: Prisons

Paris Green is serving a life sentence for the brutal murder of Robert Shankland in Fife, Scotland, and has now made a second demand for gender reassignment surgery on the NHS

Notorious prisoner Charles Bronson has reportedly issued a warning over his "fake son" in his first correspondence from inside jail since he had his latest bid for freedom rejected

Joaquin Guzman Lopez, 36, Jesus Alfredo Guzman Salazar, 37, and Ivan Guzman Salazar, 40, are said to front the Sinaloa cartel with 'El Chapo' Joaquín Guzmán himself in prison for life

HMP The Verne in Portland, Dorset, is set for a major expansion but local residents say they weren't consulted about the plans and want the facility shutting down for good

The murder of Sarah Everard, 33, in 2021, by Met Police officer Wayne Couzens led to renewed calls to tackle supposedly lower-level sex offences. Couzens had previously indecently exposed himself

Harem Ahmed Abwbaker, 33, is wanted in France in connection with the deaths of 27 migrants in 2021. It will cost the taxpayer approximately £17,000 to keep him in custody until the new hearing

A woman discovered her husband Terence 'Terry' Donovan when she found child sex abuse images on a disc in the caravan where he lived - he pleaded guilty and was jailed

71-year-old David Hannah asked police “are you supposed to ask permission these days” after he was arrested for trying to put his privates into a woman's hand in her kitchen

Grandmother Lindsay Sandiford has been locked up in Kerobokan Prison in Bali since 2013, when she was found with £1.6million of cocaine in her suitcase when she entered Indonesia

Elsie Urry, whose three children were brutally murdered by the "Monster of Worcester" David McGreavy has said how she has them in her head "all the time" ever since

A Rio de Janeiro court sentenced Veronica Costa to 10 years and eight months, stipulating that her sentence must be served in a prison

Victim Joice Maria da Gloria Rodrigues, 25, was strangled to death with a shirt before her body was concealed on a construction site in Sao Vicente, Brazil

Foreign Office travel advice for Cyprus has changed to warn Brits of strict new laws now in force ahead of summer holidays - with prison sentences and hefty fines for rule-breakers

Former Barcelona and Juventus star Dani Alves remains in custody after being arrested on 20 January on suspicion of sexually assaulting a woman in a nightclub in Barcelona

Denise Frazier from Mississippi faces 10 years in prison over charges of unnatural intercourse and aggravated animal cruelty. She claims the pet allegedly in the video was “a service dog”

An inmate can still be seen on top of Strangeways prison in Manchester, standing on a sliding roof, where he has been for six hours as police negotiators attempt to bring him down

Caroline Crouch's father is selling his home in Greece and moving to the Philippines to raise his slain daughter's young child Lydia, who he wants to grow up 'far away' from her murderer father

Twitch streamer Kim Eichenberger fell in love with criminal William McCarty after speaking to him through a 'Write a Prisoner' online platform - and is now counting down the days until his release

Mahvash Sabet Shahriari was brutally battered during interrogation after being sentenced to 10 years in Tehran's notorious Evin jail - which also housed freed Brit Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - for anti-government protests

Inmates at HMP Frankland are said to be 'excited' over the possibility of making and receiving calls from their cell - some have said the idea would 'sicken' taxpayers and victims

Data from YouGov reveals 57% believe leading politicians should show more compassion, compared with 9% who say they are already too compassionate

Sarah Werakso was in the audience of a performance of The Bodyguard in Manchester and claims "aggressive" theatre staff "manhandled" her partner when he put his hands in the air despite "not singing"

Teacher Sabina Nessa was horrifically murdered by cowardly Koci Selamaj but refused to attend his sentence and even snubbed listening to impact statements over video link

One halfway house in Berkshire has acted as a home to some of the country's vilest female offenders from Baby P's mum Tracey Connelly to Karen Matthews, who tried to fake her own daughter's kidnapping for money

The Prison Officers Association blames the issue on poor pay and jails being overcrowded, violent and short-staffed. National chair Mark Fairhurst wants trained counsellors employed on-site at every prison