All news on the topic: Prisons

Vladimir Putin's Lefortovo Prison on the outskirts of Moscow is where the Russian President's forces keep terrorist suspects, so-called spies and high-profile ex-officials

Alexei Navalny's cause of death has not yet been released, but sources have said he may have died of a signature technique used by the KGB - a single punch to the heart

Adam Montgomery, 34, is accused of dumping his partially-blind daughter, Harmony's, body "like it was trash" after brutally beating her to death, a US court has heard

Grieving Lyudmila Navalnaya braved minus-11°c temperatures to stand outside the jail where her son Alexei Navalny was being held in a desperate bid to get Vladimir Putin to act

Frida Sofia Guzman Munoz, the granddaughter of notorious Mexican drug lord El Chapo, went on a hunt to track down the Loch Ness monster during a trip to Scotland

Russian activist and opposition politician Alexei Navalny was Vladimir Putin's main political opponent, but was serving a three-decade term in a penal colony when he was found dead on Friday

Double rapist Wayne Campbell, 42, was jailed in 2015 for rape and ABH after he violently assaulted a Good Samaritan who took pity on him and invited him into her home in Ashford, Kent

Trent Gordon, 30, and Deane Hassan, 27, were caught red-handed when police raided their homes and found cash, drugs and packaging, and were locked up for selling class A and B drugs

Joseph Morley used the handle "Indelible Osprey" on the secret EncroChat platform - running drugs in the UK from his base in Spain. He's now been locked up

Russian activist Alexei Navalny, 47, was reportedly found covered in bruises after he died in prison - his wife and family believe his death was down to foul play and not just sudden death syndrome

The 79-year-old former pop star and serial sex offender has told fellow inmates that he now believes he will not see freedom before his sentence ends in 2031

"Wholly innocent" Elle, 26, was on a night out with her sister and friends when she was killed by a hail of bullets outside the Lighthouse pub, Wallasey, on Christmas Eve 2022

The convicted sex offender spends his days inside his cell and feels like he is constantly in danger from other prisoners, a source has claimed following his latest court appearance

There is now suspicion that Alexei Navalny could have been drugged or poisoned inside the penal colony run by brute jail governor Colonel Vadim Kalinin

Josh Morgan flew into a rage after leaving a nightclub. A pedestrian who tried to stop his dangerous driving was hit and seriously injured attempting to grab the keys

Alexei Navalny was the leader of opposition in Russia against despot Vladimir Putin and was imprisoned by the Kremlin before he was announced to have died yesterday

Russian President Vladimir Putin was 'mentally unstable' and had 'lost his mind' when he ordered the killing of opponent Alexei Navalny, according to his former speechwriter

A courtroom video from 15 February 2024 shows Alexei Navalny making a remote appearance from his prison in the Arctic Circle to a court in Kovrov, looking well and laughing

Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, Alexei Navalny's wife Yulia Navalnaya said she did not know whether to believe the 'terrible' news as it has only come from Russian state sources

German national Brueckner, 45, is set to go on trial today accused of a number of sexual assaults in Portugal between 2000 and 2017 – he denies all charges against him and any involvement in Madeleine's disappearance

The Centre for the Confinement of Terrorism (Cecot) is a maximum security jail constructed to house 40,000 convicts in a remote part of El Salvador - where violent gangs rule the streets

Ambreen Fatima Sheikh remains in a vegetative state from which she'll likely never recover after her husband Asgar and his family gave her diabetes medication and abused her at a house in Huddersfield

Salahuddin Amin was a part of a terror cell that plotted a wave of attacks across the UK, including on the Bluewater shopping centre - but had his Parole bid rejected, leaving him behind bars

Roy Whiting - currently in jail for the abduction and murder or eight-year-old Sarah - is said to be seeking compensation for thousands of pounds after being attacked at HMP Wakefield

House of horrors father David Turpin, who was convicted in 2021 for abusing his children, reportedly bore a defeated expression in a new mugshot following a prison transfer that was due to "safety concerns"