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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tartu Prison in Estonia (Tartu Prison, Estonia) People handed jail sentences in the UK may begin carrying them out in Estonia, ...

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 — The British government seized control of a squalid contractor-run prison on Monday where inspectors said officers were locking themselves away as protection from prisoners, raising questions ...

Nov. 7 (UPI) --A man who was accidentally freed from a British prison on Oct. 29 has been arrested in London, police said. Brahim Kaddour-Cherif, 24, from Algeria, was let out of Wandsworth Prison in ...