WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT. As concerns grow over a spate of fatal attacks behind bars, prison doctor Dr Shahed Yousaf ...

Emergency measures have been introduced by the Justice Secretary in order to prevent the prisons system from reaching full capacity by November. Shabana Mahmood introduced plans on Wednesday to ...

Several prisoners are mistakenly released from British prisons each week, a minister said on Thursday, revealing the scale of a problem that came to light with the wrongful release of a migrant sex ...

The UK government's plan to scrap most short-term prison sentences has come into effect - and it makes a lot more sense than ...

Maxine Carr was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison after trying to protect her murderous boyfriend Ian Huntley ...

People sentenced for similar offences are more likely to offend after a short prison sentence than if they had been given a community sanction.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An undated handout image shows Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, an Ethiopian asylum seeker who sexually assaulted a teenage girl and ...

Newly released video shows two UK prisoners breaking into giant smiles moments before they viciously beat a convicted sex offender to death in his cell. Footage released Thursday shows a shirtless ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LONDON (AP) — British police were undertaking two more searches Wednesday, following the news that two prisoners had been ...

Kaine Jones, of Redditch prison HMP Hewell, jailed for heading up a 'sophisticated' drone operation ...