All news on the topic: Prisons

Daniel Khalife allegedly fled HMP Wandsworth, in southwest London, which has seen "no real progress" in the past year, its Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) said

HMP Coldingley in Surrey has been branded Britain's "no toilet prison" where inmates use bottles amid leaking toilet bases, blockages and a lack of toilet seats

Evil Lucy Letby's life behind bars will be a miserable existence as she will spend most of her time alone or living in fear about potential attacks from her fellow inmates

Lynne Leyson was the 'dominant force' behind her family's drug business that pushed out cocaine and cannabis across swathes of south west Wales before her husband and son were caught and arrested and she went on the run

Phoebe Johnson was just days away from turning 18 when she was killed in the passenger's seat of Melissa Keilloh's car near the Leicestershire border- 15 minutes before the crash Melissa told Phoebe and her pal she was drunk

Newborn baby Aisha Cleary was found dead in a prison cell after her mum was left alone for 12 hours and forced to cut the umbilical cord with her teeth, a Labour event heard

'Angel of Death' child killer nurse Beverley Allitt has served more than three decades in a psychiatric hospital after being convicted of the murder of babies in her care

An loud emergency alert sound was tested in the US on Wednesday and the sound alerted prison guards to inmates who had contraband cell phones hidden in their cells

The England and Liverpool football heroes appear to sing on a track about murder recorded by a gun thug in his prison cell but in fact they have been victims of digital editing

Jedidiah Murphy is due to be executed in Texas on Tuesday. He was sentenced to death row for the fatal shooting of 80-year-old Bertie Lee Cunningham during a carjacking in 2000

Patricia Bennett was found to have swindled the company she worked at for 25 years of £163,000, .

Former Radio 1 DJ Chris Denning, who was branded a 'mini Jimmy Savile', has died behind bars after being convicted of a catalogue of historic sex offences against underage boys

Former Radio 1 DJ Chris Denning - a friend of Jimmy Savile - was serving two 13 year prison sentences after being convicted of sex offences against boys as young as eight

Federal authorities have arrested Reginald Odell Kincer for allegedly buying more than $1,800 in erectile dysfunction drugs without a prescription

Asere Shumba, 28, the court hearsd 'stalked' several women around the restaurant and proceeded to film them for his own sexual pleasure. He kept his identity disclosed by wearing a Covid mask toavid identification

Lucy Letby was handed a full life sentence after being convicted of the murder of seven babies in her care when she was working as a neonatal nurse at the Countess of Chester hospital

Matthew Antonio Zakrzewski, 34, of Costa Mesa, California, has been convicted of 34 counts of molesting 16 boys aged between two and 12as well as showing pornography to a seventeenth

Elizabeth Polanco De Los Santos fears that she may end up being held at the notorious Al Awir prison in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, where inmates face horrendous inhumane conditions

Prison experts hit back at the 'half-baked idea' and said jail leaders will 'be in despair at such a superficial response to their very real and urgent concerns'

The National Crime Agency has updated its list of the most wanted men in the UK - officers are hunting for the fugitives behind horrific crimes, including murder, rape and drug trafficking

A US student who allegedly “assaulted” a security guard has been sentenced to a year in prison - and has spoken out on feeling “violated” by the Dubai authorities. Los Santos, 21, denies the charges

Retired HGV driver Raymond Lucy, from Chadderton in Oldham, was diagnosed with COPD back in 2016, but his family say his health was not adequately protected while he was locked up in HMP Forest Bank in Salford

Elizabeth Polanco De Los Santos, a student from New York, was transiting through Dubai as she was coming home from Istanbul, Turkey, and only intended to stay for six hours

Beverley Allitt will go before a panel of experts in an attempt to move from Rampton Secure Hospital to a mainstream prison, despite being branded 'a serious danger' by a judge

Tonight the second part of The Long Shadow retells the story of how Peter Sutcliffe plunged society into a period of darkness and fear but he later suffered an excruciating final few days