prisons


A leading Brazilian banker, Daniel Dantas, is sentenced to 10 years in prison for offering police a $1m bribe.

A 30-year-old man who smuggled 220lb of heroin worth £4.5m into the UK in luggage is sent to prison for eight years.

Germany's male inmates must have equal rights with female convicts to spend money on cosmetics, a court rules.

A self-styled sex cult master is jailed for three years for forcing a lover to sleep with other men.

One of Rwanda's most famous singers is sentenced to 15 years in prison for inciting violence during the genocide.

A Highland pensioner is sentenced to prison for the culpable homicide of his wife of more than 50 years.

Radical preacher Abu Qatada has been returned to prison after judges hear he may flee house arrest.

More than 100 inmates escape from Liberia's only maximum security prison in the capital.

A German woman is jailed for more than four years for killing two of her babies and keeping them in a freezer.

A prisoner who escaped from guards while on a visit to Manchester city centre, is returned to prison.

Israel approves the release of 250 prisoners after an earlier promise from outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

A violent convict who recently transferred to an open prison goes on the run from the jail.

A fraudster working for Transport for London 'deliberately' fell pregnant to avoid prison, a court hears.

A genealogist wants to compile a database of those incarcerated in a German prisoner of war camp during World War I.

Charges have been dropped against four people accused in connection with police leaks to the media. Sally Murrer tells her story.

A man who stabbed a friend he met during a previous prison sentence is jailed for four-and-a-half years.

Police search for a convicted killer who has absconded from an open prison in Lincolnshire.

A man is sentenced to life in prison for stabbing an Afghan immigrant to death outside his house in Oxford.

The proportion of people jailed for sex offences, robbery and burglary has fallen to its lowest level in 10 years, figures show.

An 82-year-old rapist with dementia avoids a jail sentence because of his diminished mental state.

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