This is the handwritten map handed to UK cops by Thomas ‘Bomber’ Kavanagh in his botched attempt to get a shorter prison ...

With the average inmate incarcerated 500 miles from home, writer Christine Chitnis reflects on the distances we'll go for the ...

Claiming that corruption and organised crime have seriously undermined security in the Virgin Islands, the second volume of a ...

After 50 years of service, the UK’s longest-serving prison officer is preparing for retirement. Steve Ley - whose joined HM ...

Calls for a UK equivalent of the US’s Department for Government Efficiency have grown significantly as more and more ‘bonkers’ taxpayer funded projects and contracts are exposed. Tech-billionaire Elon ...

Benches across Jersey's harbours are being refurbished by prisoners. Ports of Jersey is working with the States of Jersey Prison Service on the first phase of the project which will see work on 80 ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. The prison population in Scotland's jails is at near record levels. Government ministers, governors and inspectors have described the system ...

Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood said “we simply cannot build our way out of the prisons capacity crisis” as she opened a new jail that will hold about 1,500 prisoners. Category C prison HMP ...

A prison governor began a relationship with a drug dealer who gave her a £12,000 Mercedes car paid for in drugs after she released him on licence from jail, a court heard. Kerri Pegg, 42 ...

President Donald Trump has repeatedly floated sending American prisoners to serve prison sentences outside the country — this time threatening the people charged with vandalizing Teslas.

Last month he was unexpectedly released, joining dozens of political prisoners to be freed as the authorities seek to improve their image overseas. According to an AFP tally, more than 30 ...

With inmate suicide rates at an all-time high, U.S. District Senior Judge Kimberly Mueller said her aim is to force changes in California’s prison mental health system, which a federal judge in ...