All news on the topic: Prisons

Babis Anagnostopoulos staged an elaborate home invasion after slaughtering his wife Caroline Crouch in May 2021 before playing the grieving husband in interviews with Greek media

Lilia Chanysheva, who was in charge of one of Alexei Navalny's regional offices, has been found guilty of a number of offences including founding a rights-violating organisation in Russia

Barbara Windsor's ex-husband Ronnie Knight has died aged 89 after battling with Parkinson's Disease. He led an interesting life, and here we take a look at the man behind the headlines

The shocking case of the mother sentenced to 28 months in prison after taking abortion pills after the legal limit has thrown up more debate over this complicated and confusing issue, and left Polly Hudson wondering what it is to be truly pro-choice

Dafydd Williams, 19, hijacked a police car before speeding at 113mph through a village - but after veering into field and trying to run away, he was caught by a police dog

A confidante of Colonel Gaddafi, who was assassinated in 2011 by Libyan rebel forces, said he allowed the Lockerbie bomber to be jailed for the attack despite knowing of his innocence

Michael Travis Leake has been detained by Russian authorities on suspicion of selling mephedrone and faces charges which carry a sentence of up to 20 years in prison - there is suspicion Russia is arresting Americans under any pretext amid the Ukraine war

Ted Kaczynski, 81, was discovered unresponsive at a federal prison in North Carolina on Saturday decades after he terrorised the US with a series of targeted bombings

Casey White, a prisoner, said that guard Vicky White who was not related to him was the first person who cared about him as he was sentenced in Alabama

Luke Richards had been due to testify against the man he said robbed him at his home in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, in November last year but refused to give evidence

The Labour Shadow Health Secretary's searingly honest book, One Boy, Two Bills and a Fry Up, charts his journey from the East End to Cambridge University and Westminster

Prisoners at HMP Full Sutton, home to killer John Cannan, enjoyed weekly walks around the 53-acre grounds but the group for over 60s has now been given the chop

Stefan Kiszko was wrongfully convicted or murdering 11-year-old Lesley Molseed in 1976 and Peter ross is so touched by his story that he visits his grave every week

Streaming giant eyes documentary on Brit who 'vanished' in 2002 and went into hiding so his wife could claim on life insurance policy

Kyle Stephenson, 32, punched Braden Stromberg, 27, in an unprovoked attack from behind causing him to smash his head on a street in Bosolver, Derbyshire, causing severe brain swelling

After over 18 years, Joran van der Sloot, the primary suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway in 2005, will finally face the US justice system over fraud allegations

Working in a maximum-security Rhode Island prison ruined a woman's love life — her energy became 'toxic' and 'pushed potential partners away,' she says

The son of Věra Škodová chokes back tears as he sees the sculpture of his mother as a young woman finally pieced back together as it once was

Former New York podiatrist Ira Bernstein has been charged with multiple felonies for attempting to solicit the murder of his wife, Susan, in 2022 just months after being released from prison

Michael Tisius had a last meal of two bacon cheeseburgers, curly fries, regular fries and a chocolate milkshake before being executed by lethal injection at the Missouri state prison

A man has been sentenced to just three years in prison after he raped a 12-year-old girl in a park, leaving his victim suffering 'serious' and 'ongoing' effects from her experience

Tony Hudgell, who has since been adopted, was just 41 days old when he suffered eight fractures to his legs and then developed life-threatening septicaemia in 2014

Michael Tisius, 42, received a lethal injection of pentobarbital at the state prison in Bonne Terre and was pronounced dead at 6:10 p.m., authorities said

Michael Tisius was sentenced to death 23 years ago after attempting to break an inmate he had shared a cell with out of prison in June 2000, shooting and killing two prison officers in the process

A judge found rapper Young Thug's brother Unfoonk guilty on violating his December 2022 probation with his May 4 arrest and has sentenced him to nine years prison