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The government has announced it will launch a "major" new examination into the security of prisons in England and Wales.

The backlog of trials in Scotland’s highest criminal courts has nearly tripled, due in part to an increase in complex cases involving serious organized crime and historic sex abuse.

Linton Weirich, who was at HMP Wandsworth, spoke out to expose corruption, saying: “Officers don’t run jails any more — prisoners do.”

After being released from prisons in Russia, Ukrainian citizens are indefinitely kept in practical captivity.

Reports that the Kremlin assigns monthly recruitment targets to regional governors are gaining further confirmation, with new evidence suggesting that officials are under pressure to deliver a set number of contract soldiers.

There are concerns that hundreds more inmates and staff may have been exposed to hazardous levels of cancer-causing gas, with the Ministry of Justice now investigating 42 prison and probation sites, The Independent can reveal.

Amnesty International warns that the state of exception extended by the government and reforms to the penal system have undermined the rule of law in El Salvador.

Only one in four detainees from Gaza are identified as fighters by Israel’s military intelligence, classified data indicates, with civilians making up the vast majority of Palestinians held without charge or trial in abusive prisons.

Three fatalities in Tunisian prisons within one week in July have alarmed rights groups about prison conditions and alleged mistreatment, leading to urgent appeals for government investigations.

Disgraced rapper R. Kelly has been taken to hospital after ’overdosing’ in prison, with the rapper’s legal team alleging that prison staff may be to blame.

Andrew Malkinson, 59, spent 17 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of rape. His conviction was overturned in 2023, but he says his fight for justice is not over.

The review has been criticised by some, including the domestic abuse commissioner for England and Wales. "The government will be sending a clear message to domestic abusers that they can now offend with little consequence," Nicole Jacobs said.

“Thumb phones” smuggled into French prisons—sometimes concealed inside visitors—are used to run criminal networks facilitating drug trafficking, money laundering, and even murder.

As guard Cherri-Ann Austin-Saddington was given a suspended sentence after ’artificially inseminating’ herself with her prison lover’s sperm, the Mirror takes a look at other shocking staff-prisoner flings

Britain could see the introduction of US-style "supermax" prisons as a response to a wave of violent episodes among inmates, the prisons minister has announced.

Under a new bill introduced in Parliament on Wednesday, criminals in England and Wales who refuse to attend their sentencing could face up to two additional years in prison.

James Timpson says he will fight ‘normalised’ sexual harassment, bullying and racism within prison service

Shortly before his death, Pope Francis donated almost all the money he had left to a juvenile prison in Rome.

Multiple prisons in France have been the target of automatic weapon fire and burning vans and cars.

The barbaric assault on three prison officers by Manchester Arena terrorist Hashim Abedi – brother of suicide bomber Salman Abedi, who murdered 22 people in 2017 – has shaken the already strained criminal justice system.

Three prison officers were severely injured after Hashem Abedi—the brother of the Manchester Arena bomber—threw boiling oil on them and then attacked with a homemade weapon.

A prison governor, described as a ‘rising star’, is facing her own jail sentence after being convicted of misconduct.