All news on the topic: prison

Over a year since OCCRP and CIReN highlighted the twenty-year legal ordeal involving lawyer Christos Christodoulides, who fled a UK prison following a 2005 conviction for immigration fraud, the Cyprus Bar Association has opted to temporarily revoke his legal practising certificate

Over 20 aid workers are due to face trial in Greece on charges of smuggling migrants and laundering money, seven years following their arrest for rescuing migrants and refugees at sea. They could be sentenced to as much as 20 years in jail if found guilty

Dr Evil, the purportedly sadistic Russian prison doctor, uncovered by OCCRP and RFE/RL Schemes, has been charged with war crimes in his absence by Ukraine

Nicolas Sarkozy is preparing to release a book next month called A Prisoner's Diary, which recounts his 20 days in prison

A 27-year-old NHS employee has been convicted of sexually assaulting two patients while performing bladder scans during his training period at a Welsh hospital

Lisa Clarke, aged 53, was part of a group that violently murdered ex-serviceman Brian Farmer by stabbing him and dousing him with scalding water at his residence in Birmingham

Prison unions have cautioned that the system "might fall apart" as one in 25 staff members in the prison service are at risk of deportation due to new visa regulations

Emails reveal that Ghislaine Maxwell expressed being "much happier" following her transfer to a low-security prison

A man who was serving a life sentence for the murder of his two-year-old stepdaughter has been discovered dead in prison

Anas Sarwar has cautioned that Scotland's new £1 billion super-prison will be inadequate to address an overcrowding crisis, even though its construction costs are equivalent to that of a five-star hotel in Dubai

A pregnant British teenager facing allegations of drug smuggling has been transferred to a mother-and-baby facility within a Georgian jail, according to her mother

An ex-police officer has been convicted of second-degree murder following the deadly shooting of a woman in the United States

The Criminal Court has handed down a five-year prison sentence to two workers from the Public Authority for Civil Information along with a foreign representative

Demonstrators have once again taken to the streets in Morocco, a month following the widespread anti-corruption demonstrations that occurred nationwide. This time, they are calling for the release and fair treatment of over 1,500 protestors who have been arrested. Several hundreds have already received sentences of up to 15 years in jail

A mother expressed that 'it felt like a punch to the gut' when her daughter's rapist avoided a prison sentence due to his age

A convict armed with a knife approached Diddy closely enough to hold a makeshift blade to his throat, according to the rapper's closest friend

Ex-French President Nicolas Sarkozy began serving a five-year sentence behind bars in Paris on Tuesday, becoming the first leader of contemporary France to do so

According to the Conservatives, more than 6,500 of the most severe criminals, including murderers, sex offenders, and child abusers, will be eligible for early release from jail under Labour's sentencing proposals

Demonstrators have assembled in northern Germany, calling for the expulsion of the main suspect in Madeleine McCann's disappearance from their locality

A woman who permitted Ian Watkins, the lead singer of Lostprophets, to sexually abuse her infant is requesting to be freed from prison

The court was informed that Tommy Robinson declined to give his phone's pin code when the police pulled over his Bentley en route to Benidorm

Ian Watkins, the ex-vocalist of Lostprophets and a convicted child sex offender, has passed away after being assaulted in prison

A pregnant woman who succeeded in diverting over £900,000 by falsifying her employer's signature has been instructed to repay merely £221,000 or face imprisonment