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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.

The Ministry of Justice says it is "considering all viable options" to increase capacity on the prison estate, as the latest statistics show there are only about 1,000 places available.

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

Gangster Curtis ’Cocky’ Warren says he wants to be out of the ’public glare’ after admitting to breaching a Serious Crime Prevention Order he was slapped with for drug importation

Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) said on August 23 that a group of inmates at a prison in the southwestern region of Volgograd have taken an unspecified number of staff members hostage amid reports that knife-wielding prisoners launched a deadly attack on guards.

Emergency plan set to be introduced that could see alleged criminals released and court cases delayed

British man Kris Maharaj spent 38 years in jail and passed away after fighting nearly 40 years to clear his name, human rights lawyer Stafford Smith said in a social media post

Aravindan Balakrishnan, jailed in 2016 for string of sexual assaults, died of natural causes, coroner rules

A female prison officer was convicted of misconduct in a public office after texts with a male inmate. Dawn MacCormack said was depressed and suffering ’brain fog’ at the time

Concerns have been raised about the performance of dozens of prisons in England and Wales as there has been a large increase in the number of weapons, drugs and phones seized

Three leaders of an extremist Jewish cult received lengthy prison sentences in U.S. court for the kidnapping and sex trafficking of a girl and boy, after they stole the minors from their mother in the dead of night and tried to smuggle them out of the country.

Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood is expected to announce emergency plans to allow thousands of prisoners out of jail early to prevent civil disorder across the country

Tyler Roenz, 19, has been sentenced to 40 years in prison after pleading guilty to the October 2022 murder of his mother Michelle Roenz, 49, in Harris County, Texas

Linda De Sousa Abreu, 30, has been charged with misconduct in public office over a social media video allegedly showing a prison guard having sex with an inmate at HMP Wandsworth

Richard Norman Rojem Jr. was executed for stabbing and killing his former stepdaughter. It was the 13th execution since the state reinstated capital punishment in October 2021

Anthony Martinez has been sentenced to life in prison for first-degree murder in the starvation death of his six-year-old son Deshaun in 2020 with his wife also receiving a similar sentence

A prison officers brutally assaulted in a four-minute rampage by sex-killer Carl Langdell has received £600,000 in compensation but is baffled his assailant was rewarded in jail

WARNING, DISTRESSING IMAGES: Ukrainian POWs were fed dog food with hairs in and had their genitals stunned by Russian prison officers, with the widow of one prisoner who died of tuberculosis revealing the horror conditions

Ash Palmisciano told the Sunday Mirror how thrilled he is to play Emmerdale's first ever trans character, and how proud he is to be trans. The star bravely told of the senseless abuse he faces just for his identity, but highlighted how many Emmerdale fans got in touch when he joined the soap

Montreanna has no regrets over rekindling her romance with her childhood sweetheart after learning that he had been sentenced to life in prison without parole

Richard Rojem was executed in Oklahoma today for the 1984 murder of 7 year old Layla Cummings, whose mutilated body was found in a field in rural Washita County

A Texas prisoner apologized one last time to the family of the teen he killed in 2000, before he uttering a chilling phrase to the warden

Madalina Cojocari was last seen getting off a school bus in Cornelius, North Carolina, on November 21, 2022, but her parents didn't report her missing for more than three weeks