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I judge prison officers by the extent to which they allow themselves to be guided by their own decency and common sense. There is a ridiculous rule about having to [...]

Byline: Cameron Montemayor Nov. 18A first of its kind training facility for correctional officers in the home of a former Cameron, Missouri, prison was unveiled to the public with a [...]

Byline: Peter Bradshaw Star Rating: 4 stars This 1989 movie from Turkish director Tunç Basaran is a gentle and touching but also energised and emotionally urgent piece of work, whose [...]

Byline: By, Jason Evans A man has been caught working in Welsh cannabis farms twice in less than three years, a court has heard. Albanian national Armando Beti was let [...]

Byline: Karen Middleton Political editor An Australian human rights lawyer and a former long-term immigration detainee have given private testimony to the United Nations on Australia's detention and consular practices, [...]

The Kern County coroner's office on Friday identified a man who was found unresponsive at Kern Valley State Prison in Delano on Nov. 9. Darius J. Swain, 41, was pronounced [...]

Byline: By, Harry Stedman PA & Alya Zayed A 74-year-old woman is in a life-threatening condition in hospital following a collision with a prison transport vehicle in South Yorkshire. Police [...]

Byline: By, Liam Buckler A female prison guard has been spared jail despite writing love letters with an inmate and professing their 'undying love' for each other. Jessica McCleary, 29, [...]

Byline: By, Dan Burnham Mike Tyson has had countless run-ins with the law -most infamously when he was convicted of rape in 1992. Following his arrest the year prior, Tyson [...]

Byline: Charlotte Caldwell Nov. 15LIMA A Lima teen pleaded guilty Friday in the Allen County Common Pleas Court to involuntary manslaughter and improperly discharging a firearm into a habitation after [...]

Byline: Rajeev Syal and Diane Taylor Leading Tories Robert Jenrick and Oliver Dowden were on the committee that backed plans for the 'rushed and misjudged' £15m purchase of an asbestos-ridden [...]

Byline: Alexandra Duggan Nov. 14Nez Perce County prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty for Nicholas Umphenour, the man who helped coordinate an Idaho prison escape and hospital ambush that [...]

Byline: Alexandra Duggan Nov. 14Nez Perce County prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty for Nicholas Umphenour, the man who helped coordinate an Idaho prison escape and hospital ambush, for [...]

Last week, voters in California and Nevada considered the abolition of forced labor — “slavery” or “involuntary servitude,” in the language of the 13th Amendment — in each state’s penal [...]

Byline: By, George Lithgow Former soldier Daniel Khalife has denied asking Iranian agents for help after he escaped from prison. The 23-year-old told Woolwich Crown Court the Middle Eastern country's [...]

Byline: By, Alan Johnson A jail is probably the last place you'd wish to spend the night, but for one Brit it proved a more than comforting experience in her [...]

Byline: By, Abbie Bray Emmerdale viewers have been rife with speculation about the 'true' identity of newcomer John Sugden, portrayed by Oliver Farnworth. Fans are questioning his connection to Victoria [...]

Byline: Maya Yang In newly released audio, Charles Manson, the cult leader behind a string of killings during the late 1960s in California, admitted his involvement in additional killings that [...]

A 55-year-old at North Kern State Prison died Sunday night after being stabbed at the facility in Delano. Nick Vedol Lopez was attacked at 7:42 p.m., according to a report [...]

Byline: By, Ben Haslam A man who was gunned down in broad daylight was on resettlement day release from prison and chiefs at the cells found out he had died [...]

Byline: By, Laura Carreno Teddy Mitchell and his family may have nothing to fear from Nicola -but Sharon Watts may need to look over her shoulder. The EastEnders newcomer portrayed [...]

Byline: By, Liam McInerney An ex-drug dealer who was put behind bars alongside some of Britain's most dangerous women says she misses prison. Francesca Fattore, who briefly served on Houseblock [...]

Byline: Emily Allen Nov. 12A lawyer for a man being held at Maine State Prison before trial on a murder charge says the facility is violating his client's rights by [...]

Byline: By, Bradley Jolly A young Brit who faces 60 years behind bars in the US after allegedly smuggling £3.5m worth of cocaine in her suitcases from Mexico has spoken [...]

Work to repair hundreds of prison cells has come to a grinding halt after the collapse of the construction company ISG. Around 4,000 jail spaces are out of commission across [...]

Byline: Will Bolton CRIME CORRESPONDENT FOR FOUR days last summer, Daniel Khalife was one of the most wanted men in the country after he escaped from HMP Wandsworth while awaiting [...]

The former soldier Daniel Khalife yesterday pleaded guilty to escaping from prison. The 23-year-old absconded from HMP Wandsworth in southwest London in September 2023 by clinging to the underside of [...]

A prisoner has spent more than half of his life in jail for starting a fire in the attic of an empty building aged 17 under an abolished indefinite jail [...]

Byline: By, Flora Thompson & Lucy Williamson An audit found a raft of security failings at a scandal-hit jail after Daniel Khalife escaped, according to a report. HMP Wandsworth's Independent [...]

Byline: By, Sophie Huskisson Jails are failing the victims of crime because inmates are being freed without rehabilitation only to commit further offences, the Prisons Minister has warned. In his [...]

Byline: David C.L. Bauer Nov. 11PITTSFIELD A Pike County man originally facing four dozen charges involving sexual assault and allegations he kicked a woman so hard it ruptured her spleen [...]

Byline: Sam Levin and agency California voters have rejected a ballot measure to prohibit forced prison labor, in a major disappointment to advocates of criminal justice reform and many of [...]

Byline: Matthew Weaver and agency The former British soldier Daniel Khalife has changed his plea to guilty of trying to escape from Wandsworth prison, part way through his trial. The [...]

Byline: Jiselle Lee California voters have rejected a measure that could have outlawed forced prison labor in the state, according to the Associated Press. Proposition 6 would have amended the [...]

Byline: Jenna Wilson Nov. 10More than 100 inmates die in Missouri prisons each year and that number is continuing to rise, bringing attention to the state's correctional system. The Missouri [...]

Byline: By, David Huntley Care concerns have been raised at a North East prison after there was a delay in calling an ambulance after a rapist's death in a cell. [...]

Byline: By, Amy Fenton The family of a man who died while serving a prison sentence have raised concerns about the healthcare he received while in custody. Darren Ankers died [...]

Byline: By, Dan Laurie Coronation Street's Shona Platt Julia Golding receives a visit from the police this week informing her jailbird son Clayton Hibbs Callum Harrison is in hospital. Shona's [...]

Byline: By, Tristan Cork & Shaurya Shaurya A man serving a prison sentence for wounding with intent has absconded from an open prison near Bristol. The public are being warned [...]