A Colombian man has been sentenced to life in prison for killing two men in London and dumping their remains in suitcases in southwest England

Prisons are so reliant on West African officers that they could be “very hard” to run after a visa crackdown, the watchdog has said. Charlie Taylor, HM Inspector of Prisons, said Home Office visa changes would cause an exodus of foreign prison officers and be “enormously damaging” to prisons that have consistently struggled to recruit staff.

Ethiopian asylum seeker who sexually assaulted 14-year-old girl accidentally released from UK prison instead of being deported, sparking urgent manhunt.

A police manhunt is underway for an asylum-seeker sentenced to 12 months in a British prison for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl, after he was mistakenly released

A British grandmother who was sentenced to the death penalty for drug-trafficking will be freed from one of Indonesia’s most notorious prisons and returned to the UK, ending a 12-year ordeal for her family.

Ian Watkins, the former singer of the band Lostprophets, has been killed in a prison attack, several outlets report. Watkins, a convicted sex offender, was serving a 29-year prison sentence when he was attacked.