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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.