Prisons

Joe Exotic, the controversial star of Netflix’s Tiger King documentary series, has married fellow inmate Jorge Marquez while serving a 21-year prison sentence.

Joe Exotic's husband deported to Mexico after prison release

Josh Finan (contributed pic)

Waiting For The Out: Everything we know so far about new BBC drama

US President Donald Trump has announced plans to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the infamous island prison that locked up some of the most notorious criminals.

Most infamous inmates at Alcatraz as Trump plans to reopen it

Barry Town footballer Evan Press, 24, has been jailed for two and a half years.

Footballer, 24, jailed for dealing cocaine - but his club had no idea

Mahamood Diallo Blin, 26, has been jailed after using drones to fly in drugs, phones and tobacco into UK prisons.

Man jailed for flying drones carrying drugs and phones into prisons

Cutting Deep: The Knife Crime Crisis talks to one of the most hard-hitting anti-knife crime school teachers in the country, and looks at the issues facing young people and weapons.

Knife crime documentary: 'My brother was killed for revenge'

Man caught on CCTV throwing £19,000 drugs stash over prison wall

Thousands of prisoners are set for early release

1,700 prisoners to be freed early today and some of them will reoffend

Prison overcrowding has reached a crisis level (Picture: Danny Lawson/PA)

Emergency measure to ease prison overcrowding goes live

Sheffield Crown Court heard how Peshawa Ghaffour carried out the attack while he was an inmate at HMP Doncaster awaiting trial, accused of the murder of 17-year-old Mohammed Iqbal who was fatally stabbed during an altercation in the main road running through the Sheffield suburb of Crookes on May 25, 2023

Killer assaulted prison officer because he did not have TV in his cell

Rob Rinder’s new TV series on prisons will begin this weekend. (Picture: Getty Images)

Rob Rinder makes emotional TV confession

HMP Dartmoor is to be temporarily closed and inmates evacuated after radon was found in the prison cells.

HMP Dartmoor to close after radioactive gas found in cells

An OnlyFans model who appeared in a Channel Four documentary has been arrested after a video showed a prison officer having sex with an inmate. (Photo: AFP via Getty Images)

Arrest made after female prison guard filmed having sex with inmate

Richard Foronjy (second from left) in "Raging Housekeeper" that was aired on February 10, 1987. Picture: Disney General Entertainment Con

Criminal-turned-actor dies

A high-risk prisoner, who was freed under the government early release scheme despite staff concerns, had to be recalled to custody almost immediately, the watchdog has found. Credit: Mark Hall/Getty/Adobe

Prisoner released early by government 'had to be recalled' immediately

Criminals will now be released 70 days early. Credit: Mark Hall/Adobe/Getty

Criminals released 70 days early to cope with prison overcrowding

Sajad Hashimi and his wife Zerka Maranay made more than 100 drone drops into 11 jails and young offenders’ institutions.

Drone footage from drug smuggling drop over prison as couple jailed
Seized footage shows how a drone was used to smuggle mobile phones into prison, as Sajad Hashimi hovered his device over the grounds at night.
Lucinda Herbert

Victim's family devastated as double killer to be freed

Victor Farrant

Family's terror as notorious killer could be released from jail

Offenders will be used to clear up vandalism reported to council in England and Wales within 48 hours in a crackdown on antisocial behaviour, The Ministry of Justice has announced. (Credit: Getty Images)

Vandalism clean-up pledge

Oscar Pistorius has been released from jail on parole after serving nine years for the murder of his ex-girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. (Credit: Getty Images)

Man who shot girlfriend released from prison

Channel 4 documentary Banged Up was filmed at HM Prison Shrewsbury

Real prison where Banged Up is filmed, and what else was filmed there

Time season 2 stars Tamara Lawrance, Jodie Whittaker and Bella Ramsey (Photo: BBC Studios/Sally Mais)

Time season 2: meet the cast of BBC prison drama with Jodie Whittaker

(L-R) David Lamming, Kaine Wright, and Mbaki Nkhwa were caught trying to sell the stolen £2m vase which dates from the Chinese Ming Dynasty (SWNS)

Gang caught selling 'priceless' stolen £2m vase to undercover cops

The prison system is under serious pressure. Credit: Kim Mogg/Adobe/Getty

Judges 'told not to sentence criminals' due prison capacity issues

Jon Venables, who killed two-year-old James Bulger in 1993 when he was just 10-years-old alongside Robert Thompson. (Credit: Getty Images)

James Bulger killer Jon Venables to be given new parole hearing

Undated handout photo issued by the Metropolitan Police of Daniel Abed Khalife. Credit: Metropolitan Police/PA Wire

Daniel Khalife: Met Police confirm new sightings

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The history of Wandsworth prison as demands grow for it to close
During the Victorian era, Wandsworth was known for its harsh and strict conditions
Alex Nelson

Undated handout photo issued by the Metropolitan Police of Daniel Abed Khalife. Credit: Metropolitan Police/PA Wire

Police investigating if Khalife prison escape was ‘an inside job’

LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 18: Two women walk out of the entrance to Wandsworth Prison on May 18, 2016 in London, England. HM Prison Wandsworth is a Category B men's prison and is the largest prison in the United Kingdom. (Photo by Chris Ratcliffe/Getty Images)

Wandsworth Prison rated ‘serious concern’ before terror suspect escape

Lucy Letby was sentenced to a whole-life order and will spend the rest of her life behind bars. (Credit: Cheshire Constabulary/PA)

Lucy Letby could be placed with UK's most infamous female prisoners

A court sketch by Elizabeth Cook of Lucy Letby, a nurse found guilty of killing six babies in a trial at Manchester Crown Court. (Picture: PA)

Baby killer Lucy Letby sentenced to life in prison

The government has announced plans which could see repeat shoplifters jailed for their crimes. (Credit: Adobe)

Treating all shoplifters as career criminals is a flawed plan Heather Carrick

Activists are calling on Singapore to abolish the death penalty as two controversial hangings are due to take place this week. (Credit: Getty Images)

Singapore death penalty: first woman in two decades to be executed

Watch: Shocking moment prisoner tries to stab officer in neck

The Community trade union, which primarily represents staff working in the 14 prisons run by private contractors such as Serco and Sodexo, wrote to the Justice Secretary Alex Chalk earlier this month, about violence against its members. Credit: Kim Mogg/Adobe

Exclusive Prison union requests government meeting over staff safety concerns

Justice Secretary Angela Constance (centre) chats with Prison Officers within a room in Iris House during a visit to the new national facility for women (Photo: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire)

Scotland will keep violent trans offenders out of women's jails

Mosa Jamal Abid. Picture: Metropolitan Police

Escaped ‘violent’ killer found after five day manhunt

Colin Adlard died while serving a prison sentence for killing his wife of 30 years (Photo: SWNS)

Husband who murdered wife after row over mashed potato dies in prison

HM Prison Whitemoor

HMP Whitemoor: where is prison featured in Channel 5 documentary

Probe into death of prisoner who was restrained by 17 officers

When she’s not breaking the internet with new images from her Dolce & Gabbana campaign, Kim Kardashian is using her platform to advocate US prison reform (Credit: Dolce & Gabbana)

Kim Kardashian continues to use her platform for reform advocacy in US

Gary Glitter, real name Paul Gadd, at Southwark Crown Court in 2015 (Photo: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

Gary Glitter's post-prison life cut short as he's recalled to jail

Ghislaine Maxwell photo credit: SVEN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty Images

Ghislaine Maxwell interview left more questions than answers

Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins in The Shawshank Redemption

Is The Shawshank Redemption a true story? Is Shawshank a real prison?

Britain’s Notorious Prisons airs on ITV

Strangeways Prison inmates: Manchester jail’s most notorious prisoners

Gary Glitter has reportedly received a Covid vaccine. (Pic: Getty Images)

Gary Glitter could be ‘freed from prison in weeks’

Brittney Griner seen on a screen via a video link from a remand prison before a court hearing to consider an appeal against her sentence on 25 October (Photo: KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP via Getty Images)

US basketball star Brittney Griner released in prisoner swap

The government has requested the use of 400 police cells after a sudden increase in the prison population.

Inmates could be held in police cells in bid to cut jail overcrowding