All news on the topic: Prisons
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Millionaire jailed for illegally building 'UK's best man cave' sells it for £1
Graham Wildin claims he and his family were so fed up with the whole affair that he had now sold the £1million building for £1 to a mystery man, who had read about the case online
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Mum who was 'high on meth 24/7' shares how she turned her life around
Natalee King, from Florida, US, spent time in prison for drug-driving and suffered with depression after her late husband was crushed to death a truck during a tragic training accident in 2013
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Prison guard given £10,000 by robber to send him hundreds of explicit pictures
Rachel Martin had an 'intimate' relationship with criminal Raymond Abraham at HMP Guys Marsh and received 'at least' £10,000 from him as she sent him explicit pics and women's underwear
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Ghislaine Maxwell to appeal conviction claiming victims' memories were 'faded'
Ghislaine Maxwell's attorneys are to claim that the disgraced British socialite was convicted based on "faded, distorted, and motivated memories" about paedophile Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking scheme
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Family of British make-up artist who died in Qatar hit-and-run demand evidence
Raffy Tsakanika, from Cambridge, died after the car she was travelling in as a passenger was struck from behind by a second vehicle near Doha in March 2019
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Killer who blew up journalist let out of jail for party with family
Daphne Caruana Galizia was called a 'one-woman WikiLeaks' who led the Panama Papers investigation and her blogs often attracted more readers than Malta's entire newspaper circulation
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Ghislaine Maxwell 'in solitary confinement after TalkTV interview from jail'
An interview with TalkTV reportedly landed Ghislane Maxwell in solitary confinement at the Tallahassee jail where she is serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking
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UK's longest-serving female prisoner denied parole for ninth time
Maria Pearson, who stabbed her ex-boyfriend's new partner 17 times in 1986, was also denied a move to an open prison having initially been sentenced to a minimum of 11 years behind bars
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Charles Bronson says he has no regrets despite crime that haunts victim's life
Bronson is next week due to appear for one of the first parole hearings to be held in public after being jailed for kidnapping Phil Danielson in 1999. His victim says he needs to show real remorse
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Mafia boss escapes high-security jail by climbing down bed sheets from cell
Marco Raduano was said to be a model prisoner in jail and was given a job in the library on an upper floor - likely giving him the chance to look out of the window and study the schedules of guards
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Wife, 76, 'shoots dead terminally ill husband in hospital before 4-hr standoff'
Ellen Gilland, 76, is accused of shooting her terminally ill husband Jerry Gilland, 77, dead in his hospital bed after they allegedly agreed a murder-suicide pact
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Libby Squire's killer Pawel Relowicz moans about being portrayed as 'bad person'
Lisa Squire is desperate to find out what exactly happened to her daughter Libby during her final moments when she was raped and murdered by Polish butcher Pawel Relowicz
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Drunk driver who killed vet by ploughing into van to be released from jail early
Thomas Wainwright initially claimed Theresa Wade caused the accident that killed her back in October 2015 and he will be free next month following a Parole Board hearing last week
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'Psycho' killer who murdered her love rival 37 years ago 'must NEVER be free'
Maria Pearson was jailed in 1987 for a knife attack on a love rival so brutal police at first thought they were dealing with a road hit-and-run
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Sexy lingerie confiscated from female prisoners smuggling it in on day release
Female prisoners out on day release were bringing back push-up bras and lacy knickers, which were later deemed to be contraband and confiscated by officers
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Mega-prison in El Salvador with 40,000 suspected gangsters crammed in
El Salvador has had a problem with gang-related violence for decades, but the South American country's new President Nayib Bukele has promised a crackdown on crime, and has already rounded up 63,000 gangsters and thrown most in jail
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Mum wakes up screaming at night after horror of seeing son's beaten body
In a victim impact statement Liverpool Crown Court heard how Michael Toohey’s mum begged for paramedics to save her son as he lay lifeless on the floor
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Heartbroken mum begs to keep child's killer behind bars as he approaches release
Diana Parkes has asked Dominic Raab to block the early release of her daughter's killer Robert Brown who bludgeoned her to death with a hammer in front of their children
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North Korean parents who let children watch Hollywood films sent to jail
The parents of North Korean kids caught watching foreign films will face up to six months inside a labour camp - where they're forced to carry out back-breaking work with primitive tools in mines or farms while on the brink of starvation
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Marco Pierre White's troubled son converts to Islam to stay off heroin
Former reality star Marco Pierre White Junior, 28, was released from HMP Bristol last week and he’s claimed to have vowed to never touch drugs again after his famous chef dad reportedly spent more than £1million on his rehabilitation
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Kids ‘riot’ in schools across UK as TikTok trend sparks toilet rules protests
Schools across England have been forced to call riot police after pupils' mass protests at new toilet rules being rolled out after a call to arms on TikTik last night
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Story behind trial transfixing US with lawyer accused of killing wife and son
Alex Murdaugh's roots run deep in Lowcountry, South Carolina, in the US. So deep he is standing trial in a courtroom where a painting of his grandad was hung until the presiding judge had it removed
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Dad accused of shooting dead wife and son admits lying to police in confession
In a case that has gripped a nation, Alex Murdaugh stood up in court in Walterboro, South Carolina, US to speak in his own defence, admitting that he did lie to police
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Pregnant prisoner demands unborn baby released from jail murder trial awaits
Natalia Harrell shot Gladys Borcela in the back of an Uber taxi last summer, in Florida, USA, but as the mum-to-be awaits trial for murder she has claimed her unborn child should be released from jail
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School removes doors into student loos to 'improve behaviour' but parents fume
Pupils at Devon's Cullompton Community College were shocked to turn up at school and find the main toilet doors removed, which staff say was due to concerns over mobile phone use
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