All news on the topic: Prisoners

Rafael Caro Quintero, identified by authorities as a cartel boss who spent decades in a Mexican prison for the murder of a DEA agent, is scheduled to be arraigned on trafficking charges in U.S. federal court on Friday, according to a person familiar with the situation.

Toni Cole, 29, exchanged 4,431 texts and calls with a 28-year-old inmate at HMP Five Wells in Northamptonshire. According to the police, the communication over the five-month period was "sexualised or flirtatious".

A prison spent almost £8,000 on a fish tank for the reception while conditions for inmates were ‘squalid’.

Prison are close to running out of room because politicians have spent decades pushing for harsher sentences in an effort to appear ‘tough on crime

A jail home to murderers and sex offenders has seen a dramatic rise in violence after chips were removed from the menu.

Hamas freed three men captured on October 7 in a swap for over 360 Palestinian detainees held in Israel.

Mums who gave birth in a prison that has been dubbed ‘hell on earth’ have told the Princess of Wales childcare is better there than it is on the outside.

A severely malnourished Gazan teacher released by Israel says he was subjected to ‘indescribable’ torture while in captivity.

Release of three Israeli hostages and 183 Palestinian prisoners comes as next phase of ceasefire set to begin

Inquest into deaths of three prisoners within three weeks at HMP Lowdham Grange in 2023 criticises ‘poor leadership’

France will open its first prison dedicated to isolating the country’s top 100 drug lords in July as part of efforts to stop inmates from running criminal networks from behind bars. However some unions and advocates of prison reform have expressed doubts over the initiative.

A prison officer who was filmed having sex with an inmate in his cell has been sentenced to 15 months in prison.

Charles Bronson, who has changed his name to Charles Salvador, has been convicted multiple times since 1974 for crimes including armed robbery, wounding, criminal damage and grievous bodily harm

The UK’s highest-paid prison inmate earned around £46,000 last year - more than most nurses, teachers, and biochemists, as well as the prison officers guarding them

The National Crime Agency has launched an investigation into a massive leak of prison layouts online amid fears they could be used to help prisoners escape.

Dangerous Polish criminals languishing in UK jails could be deported to Poland under new plans being drawn up between the two countries.

A prisoner who was jailed for 10 years for his part in a £3,000,000 money laundering scheme has been freed from prison.

The prison population in England and Wales has dropped by 2,188 in a week following the mass early release of offenders to deal with overcrowding.

About 1,700 prisoners will be released early on Tuesday to try to alleviate overcrowded prisons in England and Wales.

A British prisoner serving time at a Portuguese jail for kidnap and robbery has managed to escape by ‘climbing up a ladder’.

Jackson is on the run from HMP Castle Huntly, which is west of Dundee, and was reported missing to police on Wednesday evening.