All news on the topic: Prisons

Harvey Weinstein is being sentenced today in Los Angeles, and could face up to 24 years in prison for his crimes against women.

James Hurley, now 60, who killed off-duty constable Frank Mason in 1988 and then went on the run for 13 years, and Paul Weddle, who stabbed Sgt Bill Forth to death in 1993, are bidding for freedom

The Mirror's Defence Editor Chris Hughes meets two of Vladimir Putin's feared Wagner Group mercenary fighters held in Ukraine in a World-first exclusive interview

Former Met Police cop David Carrick, 48, was unmasked as one of Britain's most prolific sex offenders after he admitted to 24 counts of rape as well as charges of sexual assault, controlling and coercive behaviour and false imprisonment and was jailed for 30 years.

Children from ethnic minority backgrounds make up more than half all children in custody. The proportion has increased from 32% in 2010 to 53% in 2020

Osborne, 53, killed a man and injured 12 more in the horror attack in June 2017, in which he deliberately drove a van into a group of people near Finsbury Park Mosque

Dutch model Sharlely Kerssenberg, 46, who is in the process of divorcing the tennis legend, claims he stopped paying child support for their son Amadeus

Andre Thomas has languished on death row after stabbing his estranged wife and their two children to death in his hometown of Sherman, Texas, US. He cut out the childrens' hearts

Mark Fairhurst, chairman of union the Prison Officers Association, called the country's prisons "the most hostile workplace in Western Europe" and said the most violent group of prisoners were the under 18s

Keir Mudie writes about Labour's recent comments on crime, which could be the first solid bit of policy that the party has put out in some time, with crime being a historic weakness for the party

Retired Detective Superintendent Anthony Nott, who caught wife killer Russell Causley, has warned that the killer is still a psychopath despite now being released

Young inmates at Cookham Wood Young Offender Institution in Rochester, Kent, have helped arrange for drugs to be thrown over the walls or dropped by drones. A source said this raises security concerns

Police killer Dale Cregan sported the trendy £100 Hugo Boss Green Label polo inside Ashworth Hospital. Sister Kelly posted the snap of her son Oliver Cregan, 20, with his arm around his killer uncle

Paedophile pop star Gary Glitter has recently been released from prison after being convicted of child sex offences, and his son has shared hopes to reconnect with him

Reality star Kim Kardashian was attending a prison reform event when she showed off her new look

Greta Thunberg says her Twitter spat with Andrew Tate turned out 'positive' in the end as the former Big Brother star faces 'harshest form of punishment'

Sidney Cooke, who is one of Britain’s oldest inmates, could be freed from his high-security prison by the summer. He will appear again before the parole board on May 3

Love Island finalist Kaz Crossley was arrested in the United Arab Emirates over suspicion of drug offences but has been freed from prison after spending four days behind bars

William Paterson, 43, was pictured handcuffed to a male officer while attending a funeral for his father the at Glasgow Crematorium - he's currently serving a life sentence

A prison in Florida, US, which opened in April 1978, has been left abandoned after violent inmates planned multiple escapes in the 46 capacity jail that had just 13 staff

A new Channel 4 show will send celebrities to jail in order to get a taste of what life is really like in prison

The UK's Head of Counter Terrorism Policing, Matt Jukes, said his unit had 800 live investigations ongoing as they bid to thwart jihadist attacks

Anthony Mitchell, 33, died inside Walker County, Alabama, US, on January 26 after he was seen in shocking CCTV footage being dragged, stripped naked and left dumped in a prison cell

Lamar Johnson was freed from jai after serving 28 years of a life sentence for a killing he didn't commit, after a Missouri judge overturned his conviction

Maria Pearson, now 66, stabbed her ex-partner's new girlfriend Janet Newton to death in a Hartlepool street in 1986 and reportedly could soon be released after 35 years in jail