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Exclusive: As the Green Party gathers in Manchester for its annual conference, co-leader Adrian Ramsay has questioned the lengths of the jail sentences handed to the M25 Just Stop Oil protesters

Hadden Clark may not be as well known as Ted Bundy or Jeffrey Dahmer, but the serial killer – who admitted to drinking the blood of his victims, drew caricatures of his victims and confessed his crimes to his cellmate because he looked like Jesus – is just as terrifying.…

An autopsy report shows that a Nevada prisoner died after he was pepper sprayed, shackled and held face down

The case is another example of stretching criminal laws to hold parents accountable for their children's violence.

A missing 13-year-old girl from Pittsburgh was discovered in an adult prison under a fake name, after she lied to the cops about her identity following a shoplifting arrest The post “Good Lesson”: Missing Girl, 13, From Pittsburgh Found In Adult Prison After Shoplifting Arrest first appeared on Bored Panda.

"We are living in pure chaos," an incarcerated woman at a federal prison in Minnesota tells Reason following a string of suspected overdoses.

Former Mafia hitman Fotios Geas sentenced for killing Boston gangster Whitey Bulger in prison. Bulger was a notorious gang leader and FBI informant.

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Dame Angela Eagle, the Home Office minister, refused to deny reports that some inmates could serve their sentences in the eastern European country, and admitted there were too few places in UK prisons