All news on the topic: Prisons

Taxpayers spent £16.2m on sending officers to assist struggling jails in 2023 – up from £2.3m four years ago

Ex-mobster Stephen Gillen has recalled what his life was like behind bars in HMP Wakefield alongside Charles Bronson - one of the UK’s longest-serving prisoners

Yashin has publicly said he fears for his life in prison after the death of friend Alexei Navalny

Campaigners have spent years fighting against the project

Alex Murdaugh has been sentenced in federal court to 40 years in federal prison for stealing from clients and his law firm on top of his sentences for murder and financial crimes

Specialist riot unit the National Tactical Response Group, dubbed the prisons’ SAS, was deployed the equivalent of more than twice a day last year, according to research by Labour – 40% more frequently than in 2022

Andrew Magee, from Widnes in Cheshire, was trusted to join a family on a camping holiday, but when the parents fell asleep he lead their 15-year-old daughter to a tent where he raped her

Freed French serial killer Charles Sobhraj, 79, allegedly slaughtered at least 20 Western backpackers who were travelling through Asia's "hippie trail" during the 1970s and 1980s

Angie White, 41, was brutally killed by her abusive husband Daniel White, 36 - and her Alexa device proved key in court as it helped secure a conviction for the monster

Lindsay Sandiford may dodge a firing squad thanks to a change in the law in Indonesia wher she has been held since 2013 for trying to smuggle £1.6million of cocaine into the country

A pair of wealthy former Tory donors are set to profit from a multi-million Home Office contract to practice forcing asylum seekers onto planes heading to Rwanda

Housing Minister Lee Rowley appeared on Question Time, during which he said Conservative Party 'had a difficult week' and discussed the nation's crowded prisons

Caleb Kinsey and Stephen Glosser have been accused of blowing up a woman’s house with 80lbs-worth of explosives after a fling broke down – along with a list of twisted plans

Ministers have announced emergency measures to let prisoners out early to free up jail space - but there are concerns the probation service will not be able to cope

Burglars and shoplifters are among prisoners who will be released two months early as the country runs out of spare jail cells. But do you agree with these emergency measures?

Trish Hinde was just six years old when her father began abusing her and the following year she began suffering from violent seizures.

Kathy Brandel, who was murdered alongside her husband, Ralph Hendry in the Caribbean, was raped before she was killed, according to reports, as three were arrested and charged with murder

In recent days, rumours circulating on social media alleged that 35-year-old Dougie Joyce - who is serving 19 months for a vicious assault on an elderly man in Manchester - was himself attacked in the prison showers

Burglars and shoplifters are among prisoners who will be released two months early as the country runs out of spare jail cells, the Justice Secretary has announced

Poet Laureate Simon Armitage read to inmates at HMP East Sutton Park from his Paper Aeroplane poetry collection amid an aim to improve their literacy

Kandice Barber, who was jailed in 2021 for having sex with a 15-year-old schoolboy while teaching at Princes Risborough School, has been released after serving just half her sentence

Deadly radioactive gas was detected in cells at HMP Dartmoor in 2020 but it took more than two years for almost two hundred inmates to be removed from the site

A Louisiana woman was able to fight off a convicted sex offender before stabbing him to death with the same weapon he had threatened her with earlier, say police

Steven Barker was jailed in 2009 for causing the horrific death of toddler Peter Connelly but advocates are furious he could be released from prison on parole in a matter months

Inspectors at one of Britain's most notorious prisons have reported a drop in the number of assaults after inmates were encouraging to take part in a facial hair challenge for the charity Movember