Jeremy Corbyn has said governments can act to make terrorist attacks like London Bridge less likely

Disgraced former celebrity publicist Max Clifford, 74, has died in hospital.

Prisoners at a jail struggling with staff shortages have reportedly taken over part of a wing.

A toddler has been injured by a sniffer dog while visiting a relative at a high security London jail.

In footage he is seen sitting in what appears to be a laundry room of Moorland Prison, South Yorkshire.

Rape victims in the UK will be spared the ordeal of giving evidence in court under reforms being brought forward by the British Government.

Scotland Yard is investigating claims security workers in England were paid by convicts to deliberately fit electronic ankle tags loosely.

An investigation has been launched after a transgender inmate was found dead in her cell at an all-male prison.

A new program in the UK is to utilise virtual reality headsets to transport jurors to crime scenes so that they can better understand evidence presentations.

Convictions for crimes under a law in England used to prosecute internet “trolls” have increased eight-fold in a decade, official figures reveal.

Former Oldham midfielder Rick Holden does not see how convicted rapist Ched Evans “can survive” if he returns to football with his old club.

A League One club will hold a press conference on Monday in relation to the signing of convicted rapist Ched Evans, the Professional Footballers’ Association chief executive Gordon Taylor has revealed.

Police killer Harry Roberts has been released from prison, despite calls from relatives of his victims, politicians and senior police for him to stay behind bars.

The mother of a man believed to have murdered a woman in an act of cannibalism in Wales has said her son “should have been in hospital”.

Max Clifford has been allowed out of prison to attend his brother’s funeral.

An offer of sunscreen to two inmates who had climbed on to a jail’s roof was “foolish”, the UK's Prisons Minister has said.

David Cameron will “look at” the possibility of fulfilling Gerry Conlon’s dying wish for people he nominated to have access to secret government documents about the 1974 IRA Guildford pub bombing for which he was wrongly jailed.

Laws that target sex buyers and pimps can curb human trafficking and prostitution, writes Denise Charlton.

A convicted murderer has gone on the run from a British prison for the third time.

A triple killer has won £800 in compensation after some of his belongings, including nose hair clippers, cranberry juice and an alarm clock, were lost or broken in prison.

A pilot scheme in Britain which allows victims and witnesses to give evidence ahead of criminal trials starts today.

It has emerged that Scotland stopped taking Irish children into its care facilities in recent years because it did not have enough space for them in its care system.

Paedophile rock singer Ian Watkins will be serving out his jail sentence in a prison that is home to some of Britain's most notorious sex offenders and killers.

Murderer Mark Bridger who was jailed for killing five-year-old April Jones has launched an appeal bid, the schoolgirl’s parents have said.

Tracey Connelly – the mother of Baby P – has been released from a British prison, it has emerged.

The father of James Bulger has hit out after one of his son’s killers was released from prison for a second time, and declared he believes he will offend again.

Prisoners in the UK are being employed to gather insurance details from members of the public at call centres set up inside prisons, it has been reported.

Five members of prison staff have been suspended after Woolwich murder suspect Michael Adebolajo lost two teeth when he was restrained in jail.

The parents of murdered toddler James Bulger have spoken of their horror at the decision to release one of their son’s killers from prison.

The father of murdered British toddler James Bulger said the decision to release one of his son's killers from prison "filled him with terror".

Jon Venables, one of the child killers of toddler James Bulger, has been granted parole after he was sent back to jail for accessing child pornography, sources revealed today.

Security group G4S dashed hopes for a speedy recovery from its Olympics woes today by warning that this year will be just as challenging.

Cross-party proposals to cut prison numbers by a third over 10 years could save the country millions in the long term.

Britain’s attorney general has launched an investigation after photographs purporting to show killer Jon Venables were allegedly posted on the internet.

Britain's Attorney General has launched an investigation after photographs purporting to show killer Jon Venables were allegedly posted on the internet.

Major retailers and suppliers are meeting the UK's Food Standards Agency (FSA) today to work out how to prevent food becoming contaminated and entering the supply chain.

Major food retailers and suppliers are being summoned to an urgent meeting following a spate of mis-labelled or contaminated food products reaching the UK public.

United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon raised serious questions about justice in Libya when he urged the country’s leaders to charge or release an estimated 7,000 detainees, many held since last year’s revolution that ousted long-time dictator Muammar Gaddafi.

Barry George, who spent eight years in prison after being wrongly convicted of the murder of the British TV presenter Jill Dando, is to fight a test case for compensation.

The High Court has reserved judgment on a human rights bid by an American paedophile to block being returned to the US where he is wanted for allegedly abusing three girls in the mid-Nineties.

A locked-in syndrome sufferer who wants a doctor to be able to lawfully end his life has won the right to have his case decided by the High Court.

Legal action brought by locked-in syndrome sufferer Tony Nicklinson, who wants a doctor to be able to end his “intolerable” life lawfully, can go ahead following a judge’s ruling in Britain today.

The Paris prosecutor has opened a preliminary investigation into the grounding off the Italian coast of the Costa Concordia cruise ship that killed at least 17 people.

Legal action brought by a severely disabled man who wants a judge to allow a doctor to “lawfully” end his life should be “struck out”, the High Court in London has heard.

David Norris and Gary Dobson are likely to be given extra protection in prison to prevent them from being attacked by fellow inmates.

Up to £1m (€1.5m) a year will be taken from the wages of prisoners who work in communities and used to support victims of crime, ministers in Britain said today.

THREE-QUARTERS of all rioters had a criminal record, with two thirds of these never having been to jail despite having a slew of previous offences, figures showed yesterday.