All news on the topic: Prisons

Olympian and double amputee Oscar Pistorius, 37, has served eight-and-a-half years in prison for killing girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp - but in November was granted parole

The children of Abu Hamza, 65, a strip club bouncer turned preacher of hate, are pushing US officials to release their terrorist dad so he can have a nice "surprise" when he returns to the UK to find a new grandchild

32-year-old Gypsy Rose Blanchard, who was jailed for eight years for her part in the murder of Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, thanked well-wishers for their support and said she was “finally free”

A grieving daughter whose mum was found among the 190 decomposing bodies in Colorado has slammed the "monsters" who gave her mom's ashes - which turned out to be concrete

Patricia Baronowski-Schneider, 54, fell for a "business opportunity" and was tricked into delivering a suitcase to a man in Hong Kong. But when airport officials opened the bag it contained cocaine

Gypsy Rose Blanchard has reportedly been kicked out of Missouri as authorities become concerned that she is garnering too much attention - meaning a meeting with Taylor Swift at the Kansas City Chiefs is off the cards…

Former Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquin Guzman - known as El Chapo - will stay in his maximum security prison in Florence, Colorado after pleas to review his life sentence were ignored

Gypsy Rose Blanchard found herself the subject of internet beef mere days after she was released from prison — she posted a picture of a fake Facebook account and implored her followers to be vigilant and report similar ones

Gypsy Rose Blanchard was released early after serving 85 per cent of her ten year sentence handed down for plotting to kill her own mum who abused her for years and convinced her she was sick

Francoise Bettencourt Meyers, the reclusive 70-year-old vice-chair of the cosmetics titan L'Oreal, has become the first woman ever to amass a fortune of US$100b - but how much do we know about her?

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

Andrew Malkinson was wrongly convicted in 2003 but his conviction was overturned by the Court of Appeal in July after new DNA evidence potentially linking another man to the crime was identified

Gypsy Rose Blanchard shared a snap of her posing in front of a mirror at her hotel room wearing the same outfit she wore the day she was released from prison — her first snap since she attained freedom

In a letter to the Mirror, prisoner John Cannan, whose bid to be freed failed in October, claimed he had been prejudiced against after police named him as the main suspect in the disappearance of Suzy

The crimes against the children came to light when Franke’s 12-year-old son, who was thin, covered in wounds and had duct tape around his ankles, escaped through a window of Hildebrandt’s house in the southern Utah city of Ivins

With Gypsy Rose Blanchard set to be released from prison today (December 28), she has now opened up on her biggest regrets in life - and says she regrets her involvement in killing her mother every single day

The Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee said prisons are at 'crisis point' as they warned that short sentences often teach people how to be 'better' criminals

Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s seven year stretch in prison for the murder of her medically abusive mother is coming to an end - and now fans are planning what she should do on her release

For more than 2,000 people their Christmas will be spent behind bars awaiting death, but what is Christmas like on death row? Inmates past and present have shared their experiences

Gypsy Rose Blanchard, who infamously plotted with her boyfriend to kill her abusive mother, is being released tomorrow. Her fans online are imagining what she will be getting up to after seven years behind bars

The unusual listing reveals a two-bedroom flat based in HMP Kingston is on sale for £210,000 as long as you can bear bars on the windows - and a common area that makes you feel like you're behind bars

The father of Thames speedboat death victim Charlotte Brown has urged her killer Jack Shepherd to answer questions over her death ahead of his release from jail next month

The huge shipment of cocaine was found in 77 plastic bags on a semi-submersible vessel in the Pacific Ocean, with the cargo reportedly intercepted while being transported to Central America.

Serial killer Lucy Letby is spending the Christmas period behind bars in her single cell, locked up alongside some of the most dangerous female criminals in Britain, but she's reportedly not missing out on certain luxuries

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