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Bar Council calls for pandemic restrictions to help reintegrate non-violent offenders into society and ease pressure on overcrowded jails.

The UK’s top prison inspector has warned drug drones are a national security threat, as inmates burn holes in their windows to receive deliveries.

In the early hours of the morning of January 7, 2024, a police and military task force stormed La Regional, one of two major prisons in Guayaquil.

Organized crime in Ecuador today operates on several levels.

A prison officer who was filmed having sex with an inmate in his cell has been sentenced to 15 months in prison.

A man has been charged with helping Daniel Khalife, the former British army soldier who passed secrets to Iran, after his escape from prison.

Prisons will need more money to combat the rapid rise in drones delivering drugs, the head of an influential Commons committee has said, as figures showed the number of aerial incursions predicted to have tripled in two years.

Guantanamo Bay’s earliest captive has finally been released after more than two decades in limbo.

British teenager Marcus Fakana is facing a year in Dubai’s notorious Al Awir prison, where inmates have reported ‘torturous’...

A British teenager who was sentenced to one year in a Dubai jail following a holiday romance with a 17-year-old girl from London has handed himself in to UAE authorities.

Female prison officer faces misconduct investigation after footage reportedly shared with inmates at HMP Five Wells

As most families look forward to spending a few days together this Christmas, some are dealing with the glaring absence of their loved-ones - who are detained in Dubai

Victims of Bashar al-Assad’s regime were silenced for years - but after the Syrian president was toppled by rebel forces, they can now speak out about the torture they faced

Obada Jbara was on hand after rebels seized the central prison in Hama.

The first sign that armed gang members had invaded a TV station in Guayaquil came when two masked youths appeared in the corner of the screen during a live news broadcast.

New laws to be introduced in England and Wales in attempt to reduce violence against women and girls

Next to a vandalised wire fence opposite HMP Bronzefield in Surrey, 28-year-old Beatrice Auty brushes away tears. The memories of her time inside the jail are too much to bear.

Brooklyn detention center holding 1,200 has been under scrutiny since two fatal stabbings this summer

‘Horrendous’ MoJ figures show some prisoners given indeterminate sentences in England and Wales before 2008 still behind bars

Once the gaffe came to light at HMP Perth, the woman was kept in segregation overnight and transported to the female prison estate the following morning.

Cypriot authorities stalled for 13 years on a European Arrest Warrant filed by the U.K., where Christos Christodoulides absconded from prison. They finally let him serve the remainder of his sentence under house arrest in Cyprus.

MoJ attempts to fight back against brazen deliveries that often include household items like ketchup alongside drugs