All news on the topic: Prisons

Amnesty International indicates that the extension of the state of emergency by the government, alongside changes to the criminal justice system, has compromised the rule of law in El Salvador

Classified information reveals that merely one in four detainees from Gaza are recognised as combatants by Israel’s military intelligence, with the majority of Palestinians being civilians, who are kept in detention without trial or charges in harsh prison conditions

The deaths of three individuals in Tunisian prisons over the course of a week in July have raised concerns among human rights groups about the state of the prison system and claims of ill-treatment, prompting urgent calls for inquiries by the government

Two prisoners have died at a women’s jail within days of each other, sparking serious healthcare concerns.

The prevalence of illegal drugs in UK jails is making it “almost impossible” to run prisons positively, experts have warned.

Andrew Malkinson, 59, was wrongfully imprisoned for 17 years following a rape conviction. His conviction was overturned in 2023, but he states that his battle for justice continues

“Thumb phones” smuggled into French prisons—sometimes concealed inside visitors—are used to operate criminal networks that facilitate drug trafficking, money laundering, and even murder.

Under government plans, convicted criminals could be instructed to fill potholes and clean bins.

A female prison officer has received a suspended sentence after the court was told how she went to great lengths to ’artificially inseminate’ herself with the sperm of her prisoner lover

The government will make it a crime to climb on Winston Churchill’s statue in Parliament Square, it will be announced today.

Prison officers are urging the Justice Secretary to permit the use of electric stun guns in the UK’s most dangerous jails.

French Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin announced that several French prisons were attacked overnight.

The barbaric assault on three prison officers by Manchester Arena terrorist Hashim Abedi – brother of suicide bomber Salman Abedi, who murdered 22 people in 2017 – has shaken the already strained criminal justice system.

A prison governor, described as a ‘rising star,’ is facing her own jail sentence after being convicted of misconduct.

This is the moment hundreds of gang members inside El Salvador’s infamous megaprison desperately stare at Donald Trump’s glamorous Home Secretary.

Over 50 inmates in an Indonesian prison attempted an escape as officers hurried to prevent them.

Locked in a glass cage under Wakefield Prison, quadruple killer Robert Maudsley has been condemned as Britain’s most dangerous inmate.

A "groundbreaking" expansion at HMP Highpoint will make it the UK’s largest prison, with 700 additional spaces planned to be added by summer 2027.

Fourteen-year sentence given to key member in Aryan Brotherhood fentanyl pipeline case. Authorities identified the defendant as the “transporter, pill maker, and enforcer for the leader of a drug distribution cell.”

A prison officer who confessed to being in an ’intimate’ relationship with an inmate referred to herself as ’your queen’ and bragged about performing a sex act on him.

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".