All news on the topic: Prisons

Charles Bronson's son, George Bamby-Salvador, is hoping to raise £32,500 by setting up a Just Giving page so that he can buy a caravan for his dad following his parole hearing

Hayk Gasparyan, 31, was freed from his maximum security jail under a scheme allowing hardened prisoners to serve in pro-Kremlin forces illegally invading Ukraine

Ram Surat, 98, wasn’t released because no one paid a bail bond of Rs 11,500 (£116) which was mandated in his court order - Prison officials soon realised that he had no family or friends to help because he had no visitors

Megan Woodham, a healthcare assistant at HMP Risley in Warrington, has been jailed for her role in a multi-million pound drugs plot which included smuggling ketamine into prison

Ghislaine Maxwell is teaching other inmates how to have good manners as well as how to talk, dress and behave in a job interview, according to an insider. She is said to be 'passionate' about her course

"Manipulative" Harri Pullen is alleged to have had flings with both prison nurse Elyse Hibbs and officer Ruth Shmylo while serving time at HMP Parc in Bridgend, South Wales

In sentencing Manish Shah at the Old Bailey today, the judge said that the GP remained a "danger to women" as several victims spoke about how his sex attacks have scarred them for life

Jordan Trengrove, from Cumbria, has told of a horrific ordeal where he was held in police custody for 10 weeks after a woman made a false rape claim against him

Footballer Amir Nasr-Azadani has been sentenced to 26 years in prison in Iran for his involvement in the nation's protests following the tragic death of Mahsa Amini

Anthony Joseph James Kirby and Damien Jake Murphy who are both aged 36, face charges of interference with flight crew members and attendants and assault under US jurisdiction

Lags ferment hooch in buckets and bottles using fruit, water, sugar and bread. The drink can be stronger than wine and has led to riots in prisons around the country

Drives spotted the lad pedalling slowly along the A1 after he absconded from Bedford prison on two wheels - he was caught about 45 miles away

Micky McAvoy, who masterminded the 1983 robbery of £26million from Brinks-Mat’s Heathrow depot, has died aged 70 and never got his hands on the money stolen in the mega-heist

Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Jen Shah star has been sentenced after she pled guilty to committing wire fraud in a telemarketing scheme targeting the elderly

Two decades after former MP John Stonehouse tried to fake his own death, John Darwin set off in a canoe to follow a similar plot - but this time it wasn't driven by an affair, it was for money

Russell Causley made history as the first UK prisoner to face a public parole hearing - he was convicted of killing his 40-year-old wife Carole Packman after she went missing in 1985

According to David Crouch, pilot Babis Anagnostopoulos killed his daughter Caroline Crouch after she discovered he was trafficking drugs in a suburb of Athens in Greece

Prison guards Jennifer Gavan, 27, Ayshea Gunn, 27, and Emily Watson, 26, have all been jailed for having inappropriate romantic relationships with inmates while working at the HMP Berwyn in Wrexham, Wales

Gary Glitter - who could walk free in weeks - is on a vulnerable person wing at HMP The Verne on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, and is worried that a 'psycho' will attack him if he leaves

As she enters her 14th year in jail in Iran, Maryam Akbari Monfared has shared a letter while also celebrating the protests that have spread throughout Iran while she has been incarcerated

Three death row inmates in Texas have filed a lawsuit claiming that the state's prison system is planning to execute them using 'expired and unsafe' drugs later this year

Amber McLaughlin was sentenced to death for the 2003 murder of ex-girlfriend Beverly Guenther in St Louis, Missouri. She transitioned just three years ago

Andrew Barlow - known as 'The Coronation Street rapist' - is due to be released this month, and a daughter of one of his victims has now launched a petition to keep him behind bars

Jennifer Gavan, 27, Ayshea Gunn, 27, and Emily Watson, 26, have been jailed for having affairs with inmates at Berwyn prison, Wrexham. Now, the prison has launched anti-corruption training

The six-time Grand Slam winner was deported to native Germany after serving just eight months of his two-and-a-half year prison term after being found guilty of four charges under the Insolvency Act