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WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT. The world's worst prisons include Camp 14 Kaechon in North Korea in which inmates as young as 11 are forced into labour and Gldani Prison in Georgia where guards were exposed for rape

Serial killer Robert Mawdsley was locked up in 1974 and separated from other prisoners after he killed three inmates in 1978 and has spent most of his sentence in solitary confinement

The parents of William Brown hope King Charles will make a change to the law so their son can be the first person laid to rest at an ancient burial ground beside his school in more than a century

Ahead of the Boxing Day sales, analysis of Government figures shows more than one in eight offenders who will be spared jail under Tory reforms committed theft from shops

The government has finally responded to former Bishop James Jones's report into the Hillsborough tragedy that took 97 lives - but they haven't gone as far as many would have hoped

Perverts who take pictures up skirts and hide spy cameras in toilets are being given light sentences like community service rather than being sent to prison, new figures reveal

Residents in a Norfolk village described the unexpected labels as a 'blatant misuse' of policies by the local council and said lots of the gravestones aren't even wobbly

The grandmother of six kids slain in a house fire believes Paul Mosley, who helped set the blaze, should not be released into the public again, saying prison is 'where he belongs'

Campaigners are demanding a change in the law to make court records and judges' decisions freely available after facing ridiculous costs to read trial verdicts

Paul Mason was killed by electrician Steven Allan outside The Ivy restaurant in London in December after being knocked to the ground and then receiving an uppercut

The Home Office has had public failures including its inability to get a grip on the small boats crisis, including the shambles of its flagship policy to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda

Since 2018 there have been 219 cases where a person convicted of exposure have gone on to commit violent sex crimes such as rape, including killer cop Wayne Couzens, with the Lib Dems warning the justice system is failing women and girls

Ministers have proposed sending fewer people to jail as they run desperately short of cells. Now the Mirror can reveal plans for 5,000 new prison spaces were blocked by Tory MPs

The Tory minister in charge of prisons told MPs on Monday some low-level offenders handed sentences of less than a year will be spared jail and instead ordered to scrub graffiti off walls

Judges have been told to delay sentencing hearings from next week in a desperate bid to keep down the prison population, while ministers consider letting criminals out early

Darren Lewis knows only too well the heartbreak that comes with our knife epidemic, and he says we urgently need a better way forward and a national strategy so families don't live in fear

Newborn baby Aisha Cleary was found dead in a prison cell after her mum was left alone for 12 hours and forced to cut the umbilical cord with her teeth, a Labour event heard

Prison experts hit back at the 'half-baked idea' and said jail leaders will 'be in despair at such a superficial response to their very real and urgent concerns'

The number of serious criminal cases waiting to get to court has reached a record high with the Crown Court backlog hitting 64,709 at the end of June this year

Since the Conservatives took power in 2010, the number of guards in high security jails with more than three years’ experience has dropped from 4,148 to 2,993

Kandice Barber has reportedly been sneaking off with her new fraudster girlfriend Jay Delaney when she should have been working on a building site in west London

In 2018, a redress scheme was set up by the Government after it found people have been overcharged by the Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) when setting up a "power of attorney"

Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner hit out at Tory "mismanagement" after figures showed people are waiting a massive 49 weeks between receiving their employment tribunal claim and their first hearing - 18 weeks higher than in 2010

Shadow Justice Secretary Steve Reed said it is 'grossly offensive to victims that this brutal murderer can refuse to face the consequences of their crimes in court'

Kandice Barber was jailed for six years and two months in March 2021 but has since been seen working for the construction firm Wates at a building site in west London