All news on the topic: Prisons

WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGE: Dillan Billany, 27, subjected his girlfriend Jessica Smith, 31, to frightening attacks and blamed them on her - he manipulated her after secretly filming them having sex

Miguel Solorio, 44, was arrested in 1998 for a fatal drive-by shooting in Whittier, southeast of Los Angeles, and eventually sentenced to life without the possibility of parole

Brent Ray Brewer, 53, was condemned for the April 1990 death of Robert Laminack, 66, who was attacked as he was giving Brewer and his girlfriend a ride to a Salvation Army location

Photos in the US Bureau of Prisons’ report showed revolting food, including mouldy bread, a rotting cucumber, spoiled celery stalks, and warped containers of mayonnaise plagued by flecks of mould

Following a fight in a nightclub after her sister was violently attacked, Brenda saw her hopes of becoming a childminder go up in smoke as she ended up in prison, her life falling apart in front of her

Texas inmate Brent Ray Brewer whose attorneys say received a death sentence due to false and unscientific expert testimony faces execution on Thursday evening for fatally stabbing an man during a robbery

Lucy Letby - whose crimes are examined in ITV's After Lucy Letby: Silence on the Wards? - became the fourth woman in Britain to be handed a whole-life order and is now locked up behind bars with some of the most dangerous female criminals in the UK

Cathy Mccann's son Alex Littler, now 17, was rushed to hospital last year complaining his chest felt like 'popping bubble wrap' after taking laughing gas at Manchester's Parklife

EastEnders fans have rumbled a huge twist on the BBC soap which could see either Karen Taylor or Keanu Taylor – or both of them – head to prison for their part in the fake kidnapping

The brother of Manchester United forward Marcus Rashford - a director of DN May Sports Management - has been arrested in the United States amid domestic violence allegations

'Britain's most dangerous female prisoner' Joanna Dennehy, who was handed a life sentence in 2014 after her frenzied killing spree, told police she found killing her victims 'moreish and fun'

A long-awaited ban on laughing gas aka nitrous oxide comes into effect today, doubling the maximum sentence for dealers to 14 years with tough punishments for those found in possession

John O’Shaughnessy is set to be released from prison after he raped nine-year-old Kayleigh Ward before strangling her with his belt and throwing her body in a Chester river

Australian show Prisoner first aired in 1979 and went on for eight seasons before it came to an end in 1986. The cast are set to reunite for its 45th anniversary

Staff at the Juvenile Justice Services Center in Philadelphia have been accused of encouraging fights inside the crammed facility, which has little access to toilets or showers

The unfathomable Shannon Matthews 'kidnap' case gripped the nation back in 2008 but what happened to her mum Karen after she was released from prison four years later?

Experts claim North Korea President Kim Jong-un has rebuilt his Punggye-ri test site in readiness for a seventh nuclear test, with rumours concentration camp Hwasong is providing slave labour for it

Ramandeep Kaur Mann killed her husband in 2016 by poisoning his biryani dinner and slitting his throat as he slept. Now facing the death penalty, her son Arjun "looks forward" to her execution

The Black Dolphin is one of the world's most notorious prisons and is home to 700 rapists, murderers and cannibals serving life without parole and they're not even allowed out of their cells

Alabama Supreme Court has greenlighted Kenneth Smith's execution with 'nitrogen hypoxia', a cruel, previously untried method that could see him suffocating on his own vomit, suffering a 'drawn out and agonising death'

Zara Aleena, a law graduate, had been walking home after seeing some friends in Ilford when Jordan McSweeney attacked her, launching a horrific nine minute sexual assault that took her life

It is against the law for anyone to set off fireworks between 11pm and 7am in England and Wales, apart from on certain occasions - on Bonfire Night, the cut-off is midnight

Bobby Welch, who died last week aged 94, was one of 15 men who stole £2.6 million from a Royal Mail train in an infamous heist in 1963 and spent 30 years in jail

Tarsame Singh, 79, battered his wife Maya Devi, 77, to death and then walked into a police station to confess the murder. He has now been jailed for at least 15 years

Gypsy Rose Blanchard, who infamously was behind the murder of her abusive mother, is set to be freed this December. What she plans to do next may surprise you…