All news on the topic: Prisons

Murderer Levi Bellfield will no longer be tying the knot despite winning a legal fight allowing him to marry in prison, with his former fiancée saying it was a "joint decision"

Mark Clowes was previously found guilty of gross negligence manslaughter after he took too long helping his girlfriend who was in agony in a scolding hot bath, and died of her burns

Slain girl Brianna Ghey's mother Esther delivered a harrowing victim impact statement to the court yesterday as her child's sick murderers were sent down for life for the frenzied park attack

OnlyFans model Courtney Clenney was brought to court as prosecutors seek information about her parents' involvement in the case, in which she is accused of murdering her boyfriend Christian Obumseli

A criminal expert says Brianna Ghey's killers, Scarlett Jenkinson and Eddie Ratcliffe, will feel like the 'king of the castle' during their incarceration, but this will change drastically once they turn 18

Danelo Cavalcante, 34, bolted from Chester County Prison last year and will return to court today after a search involving 500 police officers eventually tracked him down

The individual responsible for the largest CIA leak of classified information perhaps ever has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for his violations of the Espionage Act

John 'Jack' Campbell, also known as the 'Monkey Man', murdered his love rival on the remote island of Sanday, Orkney and was ordered to spend at least 15 years behind bars

Thug Humphrey Burke, 30, was sentenced to an indefinite hospital order for kicking prison van attendant Lorraine Barwell to death - but is now roaming free just 24 months later

A convicted arsonist was sentenced to 18 years in prison and three on parole this week after a March 2023 incident in which he threw two Molotov cocktails at a church planning to host drag show events

Baby killer and former nurse Lucy Letby has had her initial bid for her appeal to challenge her convictions rejected by the Court of Appeal

Child killer nurse Lucy Letby has had her initial bid to challenge her convictions refused by the Court of Appeal after lodging an application for permission to appeal against all of her convictions in September

Villagers located in Marston Moretaine in Bedfordshire have compared a building which has been constructed in Captain Tom's name, to a 'prison block' - they said the eyesore has 'devalued' homes

Mitchell Newns, 32, had claimed to his ex that his mother had died - but his lies were discovered when his mum wrote to her, a trial at Preston Crown Court heard

Accounts from prisoners expose the system that subjects US citizens to hard labour, sexual harassment and abuse during work they are forced into whilst incarcerated. The labour forms the basis for some of the US's most loved brands.

Former IRS contractor Charles Littlejohn, who leaked tax records of Donald Trump and billionaires to media outlets, was sentenced to five years in federal prison

Christine Knudsen has escaped jail time after pleading guilty to having sexual relations with her 17-year-old student. It was described as a “disturbing” case by the assistant prosecutor

Footage shows an Ecuador prison with "VIP cells" where prisoners enjoyed luxuries from alcoholic drinks, a disco and even a swimming pool as authorities battle drug gangs

Government contractor Mitie, which runs immigration detention centres, is hiring “use of force instructors” to force asylum-seekers on to planes bound for Rwanda

Wendy Douglas was left with a fractured eye socket, broken collar bone and broken ribs when she was attacked by Brian Saunders at her home in a dispute over a fence and an ivy bush

Ian Mackeller, 74 from Aberdeenshire, had travelled out to Dubai to help his daughter and granddaughter settle into their new life in Dubai when an altercation with neighbours left him facing potential jail time

The perk, which is believed to be given for good behaviour, means Letby can hide from other lags whenever she wants and lock herself in her room which has an ensuite shower, TV and phone

Linda Calvey, who counts mobster Reggie Kray among her suitors, lived it up for years as an armed robber before she was convicted for shooting dead one of her lovers and sentenced to 18 years behind bars

Annick Lever was silenced by fear throughout her youth but knew she was different. It wasn't until later in life that she was able to piece together what happened to her maternal family at Auschwitz-Birkenau

Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, was pronounced dead at 8.25pm at an Alabama prison after breathing pure nitrogen gas through a face mask to cause oxygen deprivation