Many cells were discovered to be in poor condition containing damaged sockets, sinks and toilets, with many suffering from ...

Britain is considering mandating the use of chemical castration for sex offenders under an overhaul of the justice system ...

Prison staff sceptical renting cells abroad will solve France's overcrowding crisis With prisons overflowing, France is considering renting cells abroad. But will this solve the problem or just shift ...

Lee, who was an air stewardess with TUI, allegedly attempted to smuggle drugs with a value of £1.2million into Sri Lanka, to ...

Failing to discipline prison officers after an inmate took his own life “condoned” bad practice at a young offenders’ ...

French authorities have launched a nationwide hunt for thousands of tiny Chinese-made telephones used by convicts to continue ...

Lee, 21, was arrested in Sri Lanka after getting off a flight from Bangkok, but maintains the drugs found in her suitcase ...

A YOUNG Brit accused of smuggling £1.2million worth of drugs into Sri Lanka faces being locked up in an overcrowded “hellhole ...

Jermaine Grant - accused of being an associate of 7/7 bomber's wife Samantha Lewthwaite - was deported from Kenya in August ...

Lee allegedly attempted to smuggle drugs with a value of £1.2million into Sri Lanka where she had flown from Thailand.

The prisons crisis cannot be solved by building more prisons and it certainly won’t be solved by releasing offenders earlier ...

As UK prisons teeter on the brink of overcrowding, Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood is exploring bold measures to ease the ...