All news on the topic: Prisons

Ross Moore got into an argument with a German holidaymaker at a pub on the Costa del Sol in July 2015, and has been on the run since he was given a 14-month prison term

Gangland twins Ronnie and Reggie Kray, who would have been 90 this week, ran an empire fuelled by extortion and murder - yet the rich and famous couldn’t get enough of them

Lucy Letby has forged a friendship with other female murderers in prison, but who are these women and what crimes did they commit? The Mirror takes a closer look at her ghoulish 'gang'

The suspect in the killing of American teenager Natalee Holloway has admitted to bludgeoning her to death and discarding her remains in Alabama

A fight on a Manhattan subway car that escalated into a full-fledged brawl has been compared to a video of Jordan Neely, a homeless man, who was put in a fatal chokehold by Daniel Penny on the F train

BBC Two will take us inside Northern Ireland’s Maghaberry Prison tonight - the UK’s 'most dangerous prison' - which houses some of the most serious offenders out there

Peter Sutcliffe's little brother Carl recalls growing up with the serial killer as a sibling and the very moment he found out he was related to the notorious Yorkshire Ripper

Aine Davis' attempt to avoid justice in the UK has finally come to an end after he pleaded guilty to charges of possessing a firearm for terrorist purposes and funding terrorism.

The Tory minister in charge of prisons told MPs on Monday some low-level offenders handed sentences of less than a year will be spared jail and instead ordered to scrub graffiti off walls

Olivia Skye-Moore, 20, grew up believing her dad John Moore lived in a castle, but would later find out that he was serving a 50-year prison sentence and she had been conceived during a visit

Prison officers at HMP Liverpool found 20 drones inside cells as part of an Independent Monitoring Board investigation that also caught inmates with illegal drugs and hundreds of phones

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: Surinder Koli and Moninder Singh Pandher have been freed by a judge at the Allahabad High Court after they were found not guilty of a horrifying killing spree dubbed the 'house of horrors'

Convicts including killers and rapists will be deported and banned from the streets in a new plan laid out today as ministers battle serious capacity issues in prisons

Justice Secretary Alex Chalk said plans would end the 'cycle of criminality' triggered by a 'merry-go-round of short sentences' as ministers battle to solve overcrowding in prisons

Jeff Anderson found fame on TV talent shows The Voice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Superstar, and gained the nicknamed ‘Baby Jesus’ while touring as an understudy in the UK production of Jesus Christ Superstar

Richard Huckle was dubbed Britain's worst paedophile before his death in 2019 and it had been claimed he had been in a sexual relationship with Grindr killer, Stephen Port while they were both in jail

A celebration of the best indie games playable right now this weekend as part of EGX London 2023

HMP Frankland, dubbed 'Monster Mansion', opens its gates to cameras on Channel 5 tonight to give an insight into life behind bars for some of the UK's most dangerous criminals

The second half of the notorious 'Sunset Strip Killers' died in prison on Thursday of natural causes, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. He was 75

Inmates at the Terrorism Confinement Center in El Salvador, known as one of the world's toughest prisons, attended a social behaviour class this week

Rishi Sunak said he wanted to 'charge more people... and have them in jail' last year, but it has emerged judges have been advised not to send people to prison due to lack of space

In the 27 years since Rose West was sentenced for killing 10 young girls with her evil husband Fred West, the twisted serial killer is reportedly living a luxurious 'middle-class' life behind bars

Judges have been told to delay sentencing hearings from next week in a desperate bid to keep down the prison population, while ministers consider letting criminals out early

Ben Newman ran onto the racecourse shortly after the field for the Epsom Derby had left the starting stalls, in defiance of a High Court injunction granted to the Jockey Club before the race

Craig Ford, from Wavertree, is believed to have set fire to his cell at HMP Berwyn, in Wrexham, with a vape and then punched a prison guard in the face when she came to help