LONDON — It’s been a strange sort of prison break: no daring escapes, no Hollywood getaways — just inmates quietly released, by mistake, onto the streets of Britain. What once might have been an ...

People handed jail sentences in the UK may begin carrying them out in Estonia, over 1,000 miles away, as Labour considers options to tackle severe overcrowding. “Potential partnerships” are reportedly ...

Crouching on a wall by the sea, in T-shirt, shorts and trainers, a man in his twenties with neatly trimmed dark hair and a bottle in his hand beams at the camera. The sky is blue and the waters are ...

Inside British prisons, eight Palestine Action-affiliated activists are sustaining a prolonged hunger strike aimed at protesting the British government’s complicity in actions in occupied Palestine.

The Ministry of Justice has said it is ‘leaving no stone unturned’ to make British prisons safe following the ‘horrible act ...

LONDON, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Drone deliveries of drugs and weapons into British prisons have become a national security threat, the country's chief prisons inspector warned on Tuesday, calling for ...

This story was produced by our colleagues at the BBC. Just north of central London, behind high brick walls walls, there’s a whitewashed building with bars on its windows. It’s one of Britain’s most ...

LONDON — A man who spent nearly four decades in a British prison in the killing of a barmaid said he was not angry or bitter Tuesday as his murder conviction was overturned and he was released after ...

Retired teacher Gaie Delap (77 years old) spent Christmas in prison this year for the crime of non-violent protest—specifically, “causing a public nuisance”. Delap was jailed for 20 months last August ...

The belly of the beast – the prison – is a terrain that has long been a site of struggle for working class, racialized and ...