All news on the topic: Prisons

Rayon Newby, 20, was being held at HMP Thameside in Greenwich and was serving a sentence for assault, harassment and burglary offences

'QAnon Shaman', 35-year-old Jacob Chansley, stormed Capitol Hill during the Jan 6 riots while wearing a viking helmet and face paint - he was sentenced to 41 months in prison

The notorious lag - who has held 11 hostages in nine different sieges during his 48 years in prison - had begged the parole board to set him free, claiming he was a 'retired prison activist'

Joseph Nee, 35, ran towards Olivia Pratt-Korbel's home after he was shot in the midriff by Thomas Cashman last August - the minutes that followed lead to the nine-year-old girl's death

Charles Bronson, the UK's most notorious prisoner, has a strange vendetta against a certain brand of mustard and has drawn a number of unusual cartoons on the subject

Charles Bronson, who has spent nearly 50 years in prison, saw his bid for freedom rejected after the Parole Board concluded he lacks the 'skills to manage his risk of future violence'

Charles Bronson is the UK's most notorious prisoner and has been behind bars for most of his life - and he won't be getting out today after failing in another bid for freedom

The Parole Board concluded Charles Bronson lacks the 'skills to manage his risk of future violence' - the notorious offender was also denied a transfer to an open prison

Charles Bronson, 70, has spent most of the past 48 years behind bars - earlier this month he became the second inmate in UK legal history to have his case heard in public after rules changed last year in a bid to remove the secrecy around the process

Dubbed Britain's most notorious inmate, Charles Bronson is facing another parole hearing in a bid for freedom and claims he has "never been a danger to the public"

Collin Reeves brutally stabbed neighbours Stephen and Jennifer Chapple to death at their home in Taunton, Somerset, while their children were asleep upstairs

Mums Emily Wright, 29, and heavily-pregnant Laura Jones, 33, left their victim living in 'constant fear' after the incident in Stoke-on-Trent

The parole system is to be overhauled under a new Victims and Prisoners Bill that is to be introduced today. Ministers will be given new powers to block the release of dangerous criminals including murderers, rapists and terrorists.

The damning findings, from the Children’s Commissioner, looked into the children aged 10 to 18 in youth custody in England and Wales as of December 2022

Zara Jade stabbed the woman with a small knife at a flat in Halifax, West Yorkshire, before tying her up and demanding her PIN to steal her money from a cash machine

If latest proposals to block the release of dangerous criminals are as important as Dominic Raab claims, questions must be asked about why they were not introduced much earlier

After almost 50 years inside, 70-year-old HMP Woodhill inmate Charles Bronson will hear later this week whether his latest bid for parole has been a success

Ariane Barbara was senselessly killed after a group of friends strangled and stabbed her to see if they were psychopaths. One suspect has been sentenced to 15 and two others are awaiting trial

David Crouch, 79, lashed out at the former pilot Babis Anagnostopoulos as the convicted murderer appealed his 27-year sentence - claiming the original judge didn't take mitigating circumstances into account

Thabo Bester, who targeted his victims by finding them on Facebook, was found "dead" last May after a burned body was left in his cell - but he was later spotted in shops and restaurants in an upmarket part of Cape Town

Emily Jones was knifed to death by paranoid schizophrenic Eltiona Skana as she rode through Queens Park in Bolton on her scooter on Mother's Day 2020, with an inquest finally set to begin in May

Sidney Cooke, who has been denied release from jail 10 times, is making a new bid for freedom - but ex-detective David Bright is concerned

The former Ex on the Beach contestant is being paid £3.60 a week for packaging tea and coffee for fellow inmates, and 60p-an-hour for wire-stripping, according to reports

The Old Gaol in New Brunswick, Canada, was built in 1832 and was used as a temporary holding place until it closed in 1979 due to reports of terrible conditions for inmates and protests by locals

Auriol Grey, 49, was jailed for three years after telling 77-year-old cyclist Celia Ward to "get off the f****** pavement" before the pensioner veered into the road and was fatally hit by a car