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

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 ...

After rebel forces overran Damascus on Saturday, toppling the government of President Bashar al-Assad, thousands of prisoners stumbled out of Syria's nightmarish prisons, suddenly freed after ...

As insurgents seized one city after another in a dizzying eight-day campaign, prisons were often among their first objectives. The most notorious prisons in and around Damascus itself were finally ...

Lucy Fraser, the Minister of Prisons, had said that Victorian-era prisons were needed when she addressed a parliamentary committee earlier this month. This The Government has announced that Dartmoor ...

For years, Abdulaziz Almashi believed one of his close relatives was dead, only to find out he had been languishing in prison for more than a decade. "A young boy spending years of his youth in a ...

Multiple fire engines have rushed to a street in Plymouth this afternoon, Monday, December 9. PlymouthLive has been told by a number of witnesses there are fire crews at the scene near the Treasury.

If fear had a smell, this is it. This was my first day in prison at Long Bay Gaol, a slice of Victorian-era penal architecture with high walls topped with razor-sharp barbed wire. Armed guards ...

The Syrian civil defence group known as the White Helmets says it is investigating reports from survivors of the country's notorious Saydnaya prison that people are being detained in hidden ...