On the gallows, the hangman at Pentonville prison in London pulled the lever. The slack rope snapped tight and one of the most notorious killers of the 20th century was dead. In her lodgings just ...

Before the early 1990s, people who were sentenced to 10 years in prison might be released after serving roughly half that long. That’s because of policies that allowed incarcerated individuals ...

Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla, raised concerns about the treatment of the detainees, citing a letter from an unnamed prison employee who described conditions at the federal lockup in Los Angeles ...

From Porridge to Prison Break, TV audiences have long had a fascination with incarceration. With bars reducing the options for action, the consequences are always amplified. A captive audience is ...

Fresh from the United States, they were shoved onto buses and hauled into the prison under blinding klieg lights. They were forced to their knees and guards shaved their heads and faces with blunt ...

A study by the Howard League for Prison Reform shows that there are now more people behind bars than there were when the Labour government came to power last year. It calls for an end to the ...

Imran Khan is the founder of the political party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and served as the 19th prime minister of Pakistan from August 2018 until April 2022. In jail since 2023, he has been ...

Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik has been sentenced to one year in prison for defying the rulings of the top international official overseeing peace in the Balkan country. The court in the ...

Within this subset there have been some stellar prison films. Everynight, Everynight (1994) still packs a punch, and the opening and closing sections of Chopper (2000), set in prison, are the most ...

A pungent smell of detergent and rotten food hits me as we walk through this enormous high-security prison. Inmates press themselves up against the bars to look at us. There are no smiles ...

was caught after a police investigation was launched in August 2023 into a crashed drone containing drugs and mobile phones ...