All news on the topic: Prisons

As she enters her 14th year in jail in Iran, Maryam Akbari Monfared has shared a letter while also celebrating the protests that have spread throughout Iran while she has been incarcerated

Three death row inmates in Texas have filed a lawsuit claiming that the state's prison system is planning to execute them using 'expired and unsafe' drugs later this year

Amber McLaughlin was sentenced to death for the 2003 murder of ex-girlfriend Beverly Guenther in St Louis, Missouri. She transitioned just three years ago

Andrew Barlow - known as 'The Coronation Street rapist' - is due to be released this month, and a daughter of one of his victims has now launched a petition to keep him behind bars

Jennifer Gavan, 27, Ayshea Gunn, 27, and Emily Watson, 26, have been jailed for having affairs with inmates at Berwyn prison, Wrexham. Now, the prison has launched anti-corruption training

The six-time Grand Slam winner was deported to native Germany after serving just eight months of his two-and-a-half year prison term after being found guilty of four charges under the Insolvency Act

Stephen Bonallie, 32, was just a teenager when he battered vulnerable Brent Martin to death in 2007 along with two others but on being released early from prison he died in a car crash on New Year's Eve

Susan Moorby says she prays for drug lord son Jon Moorby every day but admits he ran his multi-million pound operation through fear and even threatened to kill his whole family over money

Susan Moorby, whose 51-year-old son Jon Moorby is appealing against his 29 year sentence, said the seeds for his crimes were sown when he was a schoolboy.

Gunmen aboard armoured vehicles arrived at Cereso No.3 state prison in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, and started shooting at around 7am on New Year's Day. At least 24 inmates escaped during the attack

Boris Becker was released from prison in December after serving just eight months of his sentence, and the former tennis star has taken to social media to declare his mental health is now 'better than ever'

The body of Gigi Jordan was found in her Brooklyn, New York, US, apartment just hours after a supreme court justice overruled a previous order that would allow her to remain under house arrest as her appeal was heard

The Serpent was freed last week after a court ruled in favour due to his age and good behaviour despite murdering at around 24 tourists - but he isn't the only one to taste freedom

Johnny Brady, 19, escaped from St Andrew's Healthcare facility on New Year's Eve where he was serving a hospital order following convictions relating to serious arson offences

Shane Madej and Ryan Bergara, the hosts of Watcher Production's "Ghost Files," went to the prisonoff the coast of San Francisco to investigate the rumours of it being haunted