All news on the topic: Prisons

Clarence Ray Allen was serving a life sentence when he ordered the deaths of others while behind bars, leading him to be convicted of three counts of murder and sentenced to death

Oscar Pistorius has today been told he will be released from prison in January, nine years into his 15 year sentence for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp

The Psychopath Life Coach has landed on Netflix and at the heart of the documentary is the incredible tale of how Lewis Raymond Taylor seemingly turned his life around

Former neonatal nurse Lucy Letby was sentenced to 14 whole-life orders at Manchester Crown Court in August for her heinous crimes, meaning she will never be released from prison

Curtis Warren, 60, from Liverpool, is due to appear in court in December charged with breaching the terms of a crime prevention order on 11 separate occasions

Some celebrities are set to spend Thanksgiving in prison whilst they serve sentences behind bars, with the apparent menus of a few facilities in the US having now been reported

Tarik Oulida, the former Ajax and Sevilla midfielder, was sentenced by a court in Malaga but will not serve any time in prison, despite the 30-month sentence that was handed down

David Charles Zold, who was described as a "deviant, sexually manipulative individual" by a judge, has died at HMP Wakefield, aka Monster Mansion, while serving a life sentence for his vile crimes

World snooker champion Ronnie O'Sullivan - dubbed The Rocket - turned professional the same year his dad was locked up for stabbing Bruce Bryan to death in a nightclub

Nicholas Fryers, 56, met the worker at Sainsbury's Dartford Distribution Centre through a scheme with HMP Standford Hill in Kent - he knifed her nearly 80 times in a frenzied attack

Michael Rowe, 36, killed 61-year-old Bernadette Rosario - known as Bernie - in her house in the village of Penwithick, outside St Austell, Cornwall, during a drug-fuelled attack

Michael Stone is serving three life sentences for bludgeoning Lin Russell, 45, and her daughter Megan, six, to death and attempting to kill sister Josie, nine, in the Chillenden murders

Ashling Murphy's killer Jozef Puska is in a cell on his own and is getting 24-hour protection for his own safety - and a prison source said he never apologised for the woman's murder

Peter Allen, who was caged in 2009 for the brutal slaying of dad-of-five Raymond Black, set upon notorious Paul Lyons at Perth Prison in a vicious jail brawl

Ian Kendall, 65, who usually works at Poole Magistrates' Court, has been hit with a hefty fine and crime costs after he illegally constructed two properties in Bockhampton

The body of Luis Alfredo Garavito, a twisted Colombian paedophile known as "The Beast", was left languishing on a mortician's slab for almost 40 days after his death on October 12

Matthew Zakrzewski was sentenced to over 700 years in prison on Friday for the sexual assault of 16 young boys. The evil molester uttered truly chilling final words before his sentencing

Christine Keeler's family say she was prosecuted to discredit her over the John Profumo scandal and have launched a campaign to clear her name. The model was jailed for nine months in 1963

Anton Hull had consumed a number of alcoholic drinks, including rum and lager at a pub in South Cadbury and had even been refused service at about 10.30pm due to how drunk he was. He then tried to drive home

The grandmother of six kids slain in a house fire believes Paul Mosley, who helped set the blaze, should not be released into the public again, saying prison is 'where he belongs'

The British grandmother caught flying into Bali from Bangkok with 10.16lb of cocaine worth £1.6 million in 2012 has spent 10 years on Death Row in grim Kerobokan prison

Jayne Hamer, 63, who was a lodger at Fred and Rose West’s House of Horrors in Gloucester, has urged Rose to 'come clean' and reveal what she knows as she turns 70

Eleanor Davies claimed she was acting in 'self defence' and that her ex had been violent towards her before. The man suffered two serious wounds from the attack

A female prison officer at a Belgium prison who was accused of being a “nymphomaniac” and having hot tub orgies with work colleagues, has said the allegations have "destroyed" her life

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: Andrew Miller was dressed as a woman when he offered the child, who he had never seen before, a lift. Police were out hunting for the girl who only escaped when he fell asleep and she called 999