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A prison in Florida, US, which opened in April 1978, has been left abandoned after violent inmates planned multiple escapes in the 46 capacity jail that had just 13 staff

A new Channel 4 show will send celebrities to jail in order to get a taste of what life is really like in prison

The UK's Head of Counter Terrorism Policing, Matt Jukes, said his unit had 800 live investigations ongoing as they bid to thwart jihadist attacks

Anthony Mitchell, 33, died inside Walker County, Alabama, US, on January 26 after he was seen in shocking CCTV footage being dragged, stripped naked and left dumped in a prison cell

Lamar Johnson was freed from jai after serving 28 years of a life sentence for a killing he didn't commit, after a Missouri judge overturned his conviction

Maria Pearson, now 66, stabbed her ex-partner's new girlfriend Janet Newton to death in a Hartlepool street in 1986 and reportedly could soon be released after 35 years in jail

Six-time Paralympic gold medallist Oscar Pistorius shot girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, 29, dead at his home in Pretoria, South Africa, on Valentine's Day 2013 - with him later being sentenced to 13 years in prison for her murder

Barry and June Steenkamp said they cannot forgive Oscar Pistorius after the former athlete refused to admit to them that he deliberately shot their daughter Reeva in South Africa

Killer Kenneth Noye, freed in 2019, has spoken out for the first time in a new book by Donal MacIntyre and Karl Howman. He also agreed to sit down after 40 years with the man who brought him to justice

Oscar Pistorius shot girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp dead at his home in Pretoria, South Africa, 10 years ago. The Mirror has been given exclusive details of Pistorius’s life in Atteridgeville prison

Millions have been left homeless and more than 33,000 have died in the region of Turkey and Syria that was rocked by a powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake early Monday

Marina Ovsyannikova describes the ordeal of fleeing Moscow, having to continually swap cars to cover her trail and crossing multiple borders of countries she said she cannot disclose, to get to France

Shocking figures reveal almost one in four inmates are high-risk teens at HMP Wetherby for boys which has seen 215 assaults between young prisoners in the last year alone

Thousands of basic mobile phones were handed out during the pandemic to help keep track of those being supervised by the probation service, including prisoners temporarily released on licence to reduce overcrowding in prisons

Jared O'Mara's political career is one of the most chaotic episodes in modern politics. Here's how he went from local bar DJ to being jailed for tens of thousands in fraud

A picture of an inmate putting his feet up in a deserted classroom was taken at HMP Ranby in Nottinghamshire, which bills itself as a training prison. Inmates at the jail are supposed to learn skills

Speaking on the 10th anniversary of their daughters murder, Barry and June Steenkamp said they cannot forgive Oscar Pistorius since he refused to admit to them that he deliberately shot their daughter in South Africa

Stephen Cameron's murderer never thought he would face repercussions, but when police appealed for witnesses he went on the run to Spain and lived a glamorous life for two years

Sarah Thompson has spoken out against her dad after she grew up in Texas, US, under the rule of Warren Jeffs, leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ and the Latter-Day Saints

Stuart Forster, 36, who also trains police sniffer dogs, was taking German Shepherds Demon and Nuke through a public park, when they suddenly pounced on a terrier named Riley

O’Mara, 41 was convicted yesterday of six counts of fraud, after he and members of his staff attempted to submit fake expense claims worth £24,000 in the name of a fictitious disability support charity

Michael Boatwright, 27, Dedrick Williams, 26, and Trayvon Newsome, 24, are all facing life in prison if convicted of the murder of XXXTentacion

Former Met Police officer David Carrick, a serial rapist, will now be the "No.1" target in Belmarsh prison following his sentencing and he faces the prospect of "food terrorism", it is claimed

Serial rapist and former police officer David Carrick has been given 36 life sentences and will serve more than 30 years in prison, for crimes spanning almost two decades

Leonard 'Raheem' Taylor has always claimed his innocence, saying he was in California at the time his live-in girlfriend and her three children were shot to death in their Missouri home