British Prisons News Today

Beverley Allitt attacked babies and children more than 36 times over a two-month period while working as a nurse in 1991.

A former soldier who escaped from a London prison while awaiting trial on terrorism charges was captured Saturday, police said.

A former soldier who escaped from a London prison while awaiting trial on terrorism charges was captured Saturday, police said.

Only 12 people have escaped prison walls over the past 10 years - a quarter of them from HMP Wandsworth where Daniel Khalife made a dramatic exit from on Wednesday morning.

Europe News: Due to the situation of British jails, Germany has refused to extradite an Albanian accused drug trafficker to the UK. The higher regional court in Ka

A German court has refused to extradite an Albanian accused of drug trafficking because of concerns about UK jail conditions.

The inaugural McCain Streets Ahead programme culminates this week with two pitch days that’ll see up to 10 aspiring street food operators each receive up to £10,000 of investment.

About 1,000 rapes and 2,336 sexual assaults were reported to have taken place in prisons since 2010.

The Scottish Prison Service (SPS) is abandoning First Minister Nicola Sturgeon's policy of allocating convicts according to gender identity.

Police from corruption-riddled Albania are to be stationed in Britain to help deport illegal boat migrants from the Muslim-majority country.