A prisoner who slashed the face of a fellow inmate with a disposable razor blade has been jailed for eight years. Jade Mason, 39, was on remand at HMP Peterborough when she sliced the other ...

Police are investigating an alleged attack on a prison officer by Southport triple killer Axel Rudakubana on Thursday. Rudakubana was in his cell at HMP Belmarsh at the time and allegedly heated ...

CNN chief Mark Thompson said Wednesday that he welcomes audience criticism following controversy over the network being misled by a man who was freed from a Syrian prison last year. Speaking at ...

A prisoner serving a controversial indefinite Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentence took his own life at HMP Manchester after being denied parole, a watchdog has found. Tyrone Richards ...

A man said to have 'spent almost all of his adult life in prison' died in Strangeways after having an application for parole rejected, a new report has revealed. Tyrone Richards, who was serving a ...

Still, Avalos has concerns about the lack of due process given to prisoners. Even the worst criminals deserve their day in court, he said, and that’s not happening. That issue is on display in ...

Prisoners who have served the majority of their sentence may automatically be released in the future, provided the prison does not object. A court decision would no longer be necessary. The goal is to ...

"Good luck, because it's a shithole here," a prisoner shouts as we walk around the grounds at HMP Foston Hall. Other inmates described this women's prison in Derbyshire as a "holiday camp", even ...

He did that willingly, even going out of his way to welcome some political prisoners into the country with open arms. In an interview with INQUIRER.net, Fides Lim described her encounters with the ...

Britain's most notorious prisoner will have his latest parole hearing held in private, a judicial Parole Board member has decided. The decision comes after Charles Bronson- one of the UK's ...

Pathologists say the injuries likely caused the prisoner pain and suffering while he was still conscious. "He's not going to die instantaneously from this," said Dr. Carl Wigren, a forensic ...

TONIGHT, A 12 NEWS EXCLUSIVE. THE WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS SAYS ROUGHLY THREE OUT OF EVERY TEN MEN RELEASED FROM A WISCONSIN PRISON WILL BE BACK BEHIND BARS FOR A NEW CRIME WITHIN THREE ...