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 ...

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 ...

The scenes outside prisons this week verged on the farcical. As 1,700 offenders released early embraced their unexpected freedom, they spoke to reporters with a mixture of glee and depressing realism.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jan. 27 (UPI) --The last active pro-Palestinian hunger strike in British prisons has ended after Muhammad Umer Khalid was hospitalized with organ failure. Khalid, 22, had been refusing food for 17 ...