The new government was rocked in autumn by images of unexpectedly-freed criminals popping champagne corks in prison car parks ...

December 25 has no joy for some of us who are incarcerated. Some may get drunk with homemade hooch, or get high on suboxone ...

Syria’s prisons under the rule of Assad and his father, Hafez Assad, were infamous for their harsh conditions. Torture was ...

Supreme Court standards prohibit officer use of force only if it is "malicious and sadistic." Courts rarely rule that extreme ...

Robert Maudsley, 69, has spent the past 25 years in virtual isolation in his cell at Wakefield Prison in West Yorkshire, ...

Born in Liverpool, Robert Maudsley has lived in isolation in Wakefield Prison for decades and once told a family member he ...

Last week, the inspector of prisons Mark Kelly said in a report on Cloverhill Remand Prison that “violence was the inevitable result” of overcrowded cells, with inmates subject to degrading ...

A recovering rough sleeper has said his thoughts are always with people living on the streets during the festive period as he ...

Wayne Donta Harper, 37, entered a plea agreement Friday and was sentenced on a second-degree murder charge to 40 years in ...