All news on the topic: Prisons

Salia Issa was working at a Texas prison when she began suffering intense pain while seven months pregnant, but has said she was accused of lying and stopped from going to hospital for more than two hours

Emmerdale's Liam Fox, who has played Dan Spencer on the hit ITV soap since 2011, has opened up about his character's "last few days in the village"

James Hutchinson has been told he won't be a free man until he pays thousands of pounds in compensation to the family of a cyclist he killed in a road accident back in 2013

Lance Corporal Sarah Garrity was left in intensive care at a Magaluf hospital after Sydney Cole allegedly slashed her with a broken glass, causing her to lose pints of blood and leaving her with a gaping wound which required 14 stitches

A death row inmate convicted of killing a woman in 1995 uttered chilling last words before he was put to death in July. Jemaine Cannon was imprisoned for slaughtering 20-year-old mother Sharonda Clark

Ben Mitchell first appeared in the BBC soap back in 1996 - since then, the iconic character has become an integral part of Albert Square

Olga Henderson was interred in a POW camp in Singapore at the age of 9 after her family fled their home in Malaysia following the Japanese invasion during World War II

Sharon Carr, who was 12 when she fatally stabbed a stranger and then boasted about it in jail, has still been deemed a danger to the public more than 30 years after the killing

The former magician, who is now serving a 30 year sentence for child sex offences, was left with a broken jaw and fractured ribs after he was punched by another inmate in prison

Tou Thao was found guilty of aiding and abetting the manslaughter of George Floyd in 2020 and is the last former Minneapolis police officer to be convicted for his role in the 2020 killing

Connor Chapman, 23, was jailed for a minimum of 48 years last month for the murder of Elle Edwards, 26 - who he shot dead outside the Lighthouse pub in Merseyside on Christmas Eve

Justice Secretary Alex Chalk has commissioned polling that critics warned could lay the ground for the early release of prisoners as jails struggle with overcrowding

Ronnie Biggs' son Michael says he "misses his dad everyday" nearly 10 years after the notorious criminal died, and "still feels the same pain as the day I lost him"

Nick Reynolds's dad Bruce Reynolds was one of the world’s most wanted men – because he had masterminded the Great Train Robbery. Now Nick has spoken about their life of luxury on the run

Kim Kardashian has been slammed by the family of C-Murder's victim, Steve Thomas, who was beaten and killed in 2002 after a fight broke out in a club

The Tories will claim the first migrant to board their prison hulk as a win, says Fleet Street Fox. They're crowing about their own failure

Miche Zephany Sheldon, 26, was snatched by Lavona Solomon who was then arrested after a DNA test in 2015 revealed she and her husband, Michael, were not Miche’s biological parents

The staggering admission by the Ministry of Justice was included by mistake in an £8million contract that was published on a Government procurement website

Whether it's Frank ‘Mad Axeman’ Mitchell or Harold ‘Rubber Bones’ Webb, Dartmoor Prison hasn't always been able to keep prisoners locked up since it opened back in 1809

Jo Mjadzelics is the whistleblower who first told police about the Lostprophets rocker's fantasies about children - she is dismissive about fears for the sex offender's health

Speaking after Ian Watkins' sentencing in 2013, a Detective Chief Inspector said the investigation uncovered 'the most disturbing child abuse evidence I have seen in my 28 years as a police officer'

HMP Wakefield - dubbed 'Monster Mansion' - is home to some of the Britain's most depraved criminals from terrorists, murderers, rapists and 'Hannibal the Cannibal' who is caged in an underground glass box

David Hunter suffocated his terminally ill wife Janice at the couple's home in Cyprus, and was jailed for two years for the killing - now he's revealed his ordeal right after her death

Lostprophets paedophile Ian Watkins is said to be in a critical condition after three inmates at HMP Wakefield - dubbed Monster Mansion for its inhabitants - "took him hostage" before launching a violent attack on him

The government must stop these "bizarre" ideas, like ordering over-50s to get on their bikes, and instead concentrate on education, training and rehabilitation, argues Keir Mudie