France — Marcel Petiot, a medical doctor and serial killer convicted of 26 murders (though suspected of killing as many as ...

Criminal justice reform advocacy groups plan to support bills targeting parole, prison conditions and the death penalty in ...

Nurse at the centre of trans row tribunal has praised the courage of colleagues south of the Border after they won a landmark ...

The 31-year-old Londoner and pro-Palestinian activist is refusing food as part of a coordinated hunger strike – the longest the United Kingdom has seen in decades. “I’m push ...

AN OCCUPATIONAL therapist from Dorset has been named Allied Health Professional (AHP) of the Year for her work which has helped reduce prisoner violence and re-offending.

The UK’s world-class education and skills offer overseas brings roughly the same to our economy as exporting cars and is worth more than food and drink.

Timothy Evans was executed in 1950 for the murders of his wife Beryl and 14-month-old daughter Geraldine - but the real ...

Ion Zaharia, 44, and Samir Barbulesteanu, 23, travelled to England on October 28 last year, arriving at the Harwich sea port ...

In 1955, Ruth Ellis was hanged for killing her abusive partner. Her case became one of the catalysts for abolishing the death ...

Women’s incarceration has increased by more than 600% since 1980, according to a new report from The Sentencing Project. Four decades ago, about 26,000 women were held in jails or prisons in the ...

Some members of the group are awaiting trial; some are serving short sentences. In the meantime, with little else to do, they ...

A 29-year-old New Jersey man has been sentenced to six to 12 years in prison for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman at his apartment. Bryan M. Stackhouse, now of the Manahawkin section of ...