All news on the topic: Prisons

Four decades ago drains blocked by rotting corpses exposed one of Britain’s most notorious mass murderers – Dennis Nilsen

Police were called to paedophile Gary Glitter's new property on Sunday after the gang, reportedly alerted to the location from a post on social media, turned up to hurl abuse

The Prison Officers’ Association has blamed the huge compensation bill on the Tory failure to tackle the jail staffing crisis, with inmates not getting the entitlements required by law

Paula Hudgell said 'our justice system is so weak' after Tony Hudgell's birth mum Jody Simpson won a High Court battle to be released after serving six years of a 10-year term

Strict rules on jail mail prevent inmates from receiving sexually explicit material like nude pics - but partners are marking envelopes as legal correspondence and putting saucy snaps in their letters

Patrick Mackay, 70, has served 47 years for three killings but originally owned up to eight more – before retracting his admission

Paedophile Michael Thurman wrote of HMP Five Wells: 'At last I am in a prison where, as a form of respect, the guards use our Christian names and told us theirs.'

Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver faces having two 'mega jails' built near his picturesque home in Essex - and locals are up in arms about it

The transfer of Tiffany Scott - formerly known as Andrew Burns - from HMP Low Moss, near Glasgow, to a women’s prison was blocked after plans by Scottish Prison Service became known

Suspected gang members Noah David Beard, 25, and Angel "Nanu" Uriarte, 35, were dragged into custody after six people were murdered in a brutal massacre in January, including a teen mother and her six-month-old baby boy

Paedophile Gary Glitter, who had a string of chart hits in the 1970s, was jailed in 2015 for sexually abusing three schoolgirls and was today freed after serving half his sentence

Andrew Hadwin died at HMP Durham prison yesterday, the Ministry of Justice has confirmed, as he awaited sentencing at Teesside Crown Court after being convicted of child neglect and rape

A bill proposed by Democrats in the Massachusetts state legislature would allow prisoners in the US to exchange bone marrow or an organ for time off their sentence, capped at one year

The paedophile 70s star was caged in 2015 for sick child sex abuse crimes - but today the shamed singer becomes a free man after serving just half of his sentence

El Salvador has built a new mega-prison designed to house around 40,000 inmates. The new jail comes with 850 guards, steel walls and 19 watchtowers as the country tries to tackle its gang problem

Danniella Westbrook has revealed she will be taking Valentine's themed pictures to send to her boyfriend who is currently in jail, admitting that the prison staff may catch a glimpse of her saucy snaps

Climate activists want to draw attention to Barclays’ role as the UK and Europe’s largest fossil fuel investor – and their tactics were inspired by the suffragettes’ window smashing protests of 1911 and 1912

Surgeon Ian Paterson was jailed in 2017 on 17 counts of wounding with intent, but 1,500 other patients have now been found following a review at Spire hospitals in the West Midlands

The building was opened as a state prison in Nuevo Leon, Mexico, in 1943 and closed in September 2019 following a string of riots and protests between prisoners

Author, journalist and broadcaster Lesley-Ann Jones is scared at the thought of Gary Glitter walking free from HMP The Verne after serving half of his sentence for the sexual abuse of several children

Sex-abuse charges against disgraced R&B artist R Kelly will be dropped by a Chicago prosecutor who says they 'believe justice has been served'

Michael Barajas, who prosecutors have dubbed the 'Michigan Monster', would threaten to rip out the throats of his victims using his sharpened teeth

Brazil international and former Barcelona defender Dani Alves has been quoted for the first time since his arrest over a sexual assault allegation two weeks ago

Scotland's Justice Secretary Keith Brown has confirmed transgender prisoners with a history of violence against women will not serve their sentences with female jail mates

Amanda Benson revealed that she felt she could be raped 'at any time' while she was incarcerated alongside two transgender inmates and said the situation was 'utterly outrageous'