All news on the topic: Prisons

Babis Anagnostopoulos, 35, told appeals court judges in Athens on Monday that his lawyer had “fallen sick and is in hospital and cannot represent me” before requesting that the case be adjourned

Jagtar Singh Johal, from Scotland, flew to Indian for his wedding in 2017 when he was arrested and thrown in jail over claims he was part of a political murder plot

Tureygua Inaru, 29, from Florida, US, is accused of trying to hire a hitman to help kill her parents and grandparents, according to the Osceola County Sheriff's Office

Juliana Bonilla-Herrera fled the worrying crime levels in her native Colombia and built a safe and happy life for herself in New Zealand – but then a sinister stranger moved in next door

Author Megan Clawson, 22, loves living at the Tower of London with her Beefeater dad Chris –and her boyfriend George works there too

Claire Connolly posed as a hopeful on the talent show to get her daughter to audition, and then opened up about going to prison over a £6,000 stash of cannabis before her daughter wowed the judges

Logan Jackson, who was jailed for life after repeatedly running over 20-year-old Kevin Sheehy with his 4x4 Jeep, has been transferred from Limerick to a prison in England

Two of the five main suspects in Stephen Lawrence's murder were named Gary Dobson and they were the only ones ever convicted for murder 19 years after the killing

Morgan Trowland, 40, and 34-year-old Marcus Decker used ropes and other climbing equipment to scale the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge, which links the M25 in Essex to Kent

Prisoners are rioting at the Bristol County House of Corrections in Dartmouth, Massachusetts - inmates have been seen throwing things and unloading a fire extinguisher from the windows

Jennifer Young's mother Angela only learned what happened a few weeks ago when her only daughter failed to phone her to wish her happy birthday - she has been detained in Cancun, Mexico, since August

Dad Martin Mestre tracked down Jaime Saade, the man who brutally raped and murdered his 18-year-old daughter, in Brazil, and has ensured that he will be jailed in Colombia

Jessica Smith, girlfriend of Stephen Bear, has vowed to stand by the disgraced reality star despite him serving jail time for sharing footage of himself having sex with his ex Georgia Harrison without her permission

A young woman who left home for a job interview in Turkey never returned home and her last moments were caught on CCTV, where she was seen getting into a white van

Rosalinda Martinez was killed by a single shot from a handgun being carried by her father Alejandro Martinez, 20, he is now on the run after being released from jail for assaulting the tot's pregnant mum Ruby Marie Mora

Alison Carson took thousands from accounts belonging to dementia stricken Hugh McMath, 88, before resorting to buying lottery scratchcards in a desperate attempt to replace the cash

Alexei Navalny received a knee blow to the groin after refusing to enter his cell when an unwashed homeless man was put there by prison warders, his lawyer said

Three cowboy builders have been jailed after making £45,000 from crimes committed in 18 properties across Wiltshire, Gloucestershire and Bristol between October 2020 and March 2021.

Disgraced reality star Stephen Bear, 33, was sentenced to 21 months in prison at the beginning of March

Paris Green is serving a life sentence for the brutal murder of Robert Shankland in Fife, Scotland, and has now made a second demand for gender reassignment surgery on the NHS

Notorious prisoner Charles Bronson has reportedly issued a warning over his "fake son" in his first correspondence from inside jail since he had his latest bid for freedom rejected

Joaquin Guzman Lopez, 36, Jesus Alfredo Guzman Salazar, 37, and Ivan Guzman Salazar, 40, are said to front the Sinaloa cartel with 'El Chapo' Joaquín Guzmán himself in prison for life

HMP The Verne in Portland, Dorset, is set for a major expansion but local residents say they weren't consulted about the plans and want the facility shutting down for good

The murder of Sarah Everard, 33, in 2021, by Met Police officer Wayne Couzens led to renewed calls to tackle supposedly lower-level sex offences. Couzens had previously indecently exposed himself

Harem Ahmed Abwbaker, 33, is wanted in France in connection with the deaths of 27 migrants in 2021. It will cost the taxpayer approximately £17,000 to keep him in custody until the new hearing