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A British prisoner serving time at a Portuguese jail for kidnap and robbery has managed to escape by ‘climbing up a ladder’.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ), said it had "inherited a justice system in crisis".

Ministers activate Operation Early Dawn, so defendants can be held in police cells as more are sentenced over riots

Among the Russians freed in this week’s historic exchange of prisoners between Russia and the West was a Russian-born freelance journalist from Spain who had been based in Poland since 2019

Kris Maharaj was convicted of the murder of a father and son back in 1986, but he always maintained his innocence. In 2019 a judge ruled he had proved so.

One of Vladimir Putin’s top enemies – who is a Russian-British citizen – will be released from a penal colony as part of a high-profile exchange of prisoners between Russia and the West, it is understood.

The 64-year-old Missouri woman’s conviction was overturned last month, but has since gone through a legal rigmarole preventing her from being released

Graham Gomm, 63, had been on remand for burglary offences at HMP Wormwood Scrubs

Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood gave details of the early release scheme for prisoners as she confirmed how many offenders will be let out in a Commons statement

With Labour plan not coming into effect until September, ex-prison governor says emergency measures can only ‘keep a lid on things’

An infamous gangster known as ‘big Viking Stomper’ has been caught after escaping prison in late May.

Heads of prisons say they will no longer be able to accept new inmates ‘very soon’ after 4 July election

Inmates inside El Salvador’s Centre for the Confinement of Terrorism face brutal conditions with 80 crammed into one cell and no natural daylight as President Bukele takes a tough crackdown on drugs gangs

Notorious gangster Daniel Gee escaped from Kirklevington Prison in Stockton on May 27, and Cleveland Police has now released CCTV images of a woman who appeared to meet him at a train station.

This is the heart-wrenching moment a police officer stepped onto Ukrainian soil for the first time after two years in ‘filtration’ camps in Russia.

Daniel Gee Gee was jailed after a secret probe caught him conspiring to buy guns and threatening to kill a teenager

One in 10 prisons in England and Wales barely fit for purpose, says audit of prisoner treatment

Ahmed Ali Alid, 45, told police after his arrest that the attack was "for the people of Gaza" and that if he had access to a machine gun he would have killed more people.

Workers were allegedly given the narcotic by "prisoners working in the staff canteen" at HMP Swaleside in Kent, with a union demanding a "full investigation".

Those in police custody could remain there as bail hearings are delayed in case they are placed in prison while awaiting trial because of a lack of jail cells.

Egyptian and US mediators report signs of compromise, but many analysts remain pessimistic