A rotating steel drum of pie-shaped prison cells inside a cylindrical cage. On each of three floors, there’s only one way in, ...

Visitors to Victorian prisons were caught trying to smuggle in thousands of cigarettes this year while the prisoners themselves got creative to get around the smoking ban. Corrections Victoria ...

A decision is needed urgently on the future of radon-hit Dartmoor Prison, a damning report by the jail's monitoring board says. The decaying Victorian prison is currently sitting empty with a ...

An outlaw motorcycle gang member fresh out of a Victorian prison claims he was just looking for a sea change when he was allegedly busted with a large amount of drugs. Leonard Charles Crabbe ...

A man who fled to Queensland to avoid being sentenced over a fatal collision will serve time in prison. Mingen He veered into the wrong lane and collided head-on with off-duty paramedic and mother ...

The prison at the site was used from 1835 to 1878 and defendants faced the hardest Victorian punishments. The women's section of the original Dover Gaol cells in the Maison Dieu; this area will ...

Britain's old-fashioned Victorian "hell hole" jails are set to be replaced with a new generation of "super prisons" under plans being considered by Prisons Minister Beverley Hughes, she said today.

A doctor has warned that a disease more commonly associated with Victorian times "remains a serious public health issue in England" after new figures released on Thursday showed an 11% increase in ...

The prisons watchdog described the scandal-hit Victorian jail as ‘symbolic of the problems that characterise what is worst about the English prison system’ (Lucy North/PA) Daniel Khalife’s ...