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Nawal Al-MaghafiSenior international investigations correspondent, Yemen The BBC has been given access to detention facilities on former…

A £4m-a-year lease for a prison that has been empty for 18 months has been a "needless waste of taxpayers' money", a report from MPs…

This article contains descriptions of sexual abuse and violence which some readers may find distressing. Two Palestinian men have told the…

The stern appearance of Wandsworth prison is enough to make grown people shudder. Based in leafy south-west London, the Victorian-era…

Prison governors in England and Wales will need to provide assurance that enhanced checks have been carried out when inmates are released…

Still, over time, I earned a reputation. “Joe’s straight,” guys would say, with some mix of mockery and begrudging respect. The prison…

An overwhelming amount of drugs being smuggled into prisons in England and Wales is "destabilising" the system and hindering efforts to…

The Evin House of Detention, in Tehran, is among the world’s most infamous prisons. It was built by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah…

CHOWCHILLA, Calif. — Gazing across the crowd of women, fresh from county jail in their orange prison jumpsuits, Lena Coleman wishes she…