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The SPS said the rise in gang members was one of the most significant changes to the population within the last decade.

A court in Thailand sentenced a 27-year-old political activist to 28 years in prison on for posting messages on Facebook that it said defamed the country's monarchy.

Liam Hanratty attacked three girls – aged 11, 13 and 16 – after grooming them online.

A group of Texas death row inmates have filed a federal lawsuit against the state’s prison system over its policy of mandatory and indefinite solitary confinement for all prisoners who are awaiting execution

Men sentenced to death in Texas are held in isolation until their execution dates, with little human contact, medical care or legal help, according to a lawsuit filed to improve treatment of the condemned.

Donegal man Keith Boyle was found dead in his bed at Castlerea Prison in Co Roscommon on Thursday morning

Broadcaster Katie Piper is to explore life behind bars for women and babies in a moving documentary, after revealing she's been working as a volunteer in women's prisons

NEW YORK — Sayfullo Saipov dreamed of martyrdom and being greeted by 72 maidens in the afterlife — he’s getting a prison sentence instead.

A transgender woman convicted of raping two women will not be imprisoned in Scotland’s only all-female jail, Nicola Sturgeon has said.The Scottish First Minister addressed the issue as the row continued over where Isla Bryson, 31, from Clydebank, should be imprisoned after being found guilty of two rapes carried out…