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A Christian Chaplin at a south London prison had his gatherings stormed by pro-terrorist Muslims and was hounded out his job by an Islamic imam accusing him of extremism.

A transgender person convicted of multiple rapes and sexual abuse of a child carried out sex attacks on fellow inmates within days of being remanded into a women’s prison.

An alleged leader of the MS-13 gang complained to a New York judge that he faces a hard life behind bars because he has limited access to a phone and faces “discrimination” at his jail, according to a Monday report.

There has been a 23 percent surge in drugs found in UK prisons in just one year, with the number of prisoners testing positive hitting a 12-year high.

The judge who rushed to send activist Tommy Robinson to jail did not even watch the full video in which he supposedly breached contempt of court laws, his lawyers have claimed.

NANTERRE, France (AP) — French investigators believe a team of four or five loyal accomplices carried out the brazen prison helicopter escape of one of France’s most notorious criminals.

TEL AVIV – A Jordanian journalist who spent time in an Israeli prison told a Saudi TV station that he was “ashamed” of the differences between prisons in the Arab world and those of Israel, in which prisoners are able to receive an education.

PARIS (AP) – France’s justice minister says investigators believe that drones seen months ago buzzing above a prison may be linked to the brazen escape of a notorious French criminal. Justice Minister Nicole Belloubet said authorities are urgently looking for

Britain’s prison population is at its lowest in eight years thanks to new government rules which have boosted early releases by more than 50 percent in the last six months.

The UK taxpayer will hand over around £20,000 so a transgender murderer, accused of having sex with women in female prisons, can be flown hundreds of miles for a surgical sex change.

France will release some 450 radical Islamic extremists from prison by the end of next year including 50 considered terror threats.

A Huffington Post contributor argued this week that only men should go to prison.

An inmate of a prison in Brest, north-west France, escaped his jailers Wednesday morning in an apparently intricately organised plot to get the terror watch-list male out of custody.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ deputies are ending President Barack Obama’s last-minute decision to enforce the transgender ideology in federal prisons.

A U.S. District Court judge sentenced a Ghanian national convicted of carrying out a $300,000 food stamp fraud scheme to eight months behind bars Friday.

The number of people convicted of terror-related offences in the UK has shot up by 75 per cent in just three years, the government has said, amid concerns about radicalisation behind bars.

Fifty per cent of French citizens say they want prisons to be tougher on inmates as polling trends continue to show a surge in favour of traditionally conservative policies.

New data from the U.S. Sentencing Commission revealed that American women of all races receive shorter prison sentences than white men who commit the same crimes.

68 people were reportedly killed on Wednesday in a riot at the police station in Valencia, Venezuela. When families gathered outside on Thursday to demand news of their loved ones, the police dispersed the crowd with tear gas.

An Oklahoma mother who married her son and then her daughter is headed for prison after she pleaded guilty Tuesday to felony incest.

A  report published by the United Nations on Monday, March 5, criticizes the Iranian regime for its systematic abuse, torture, and rape of prisoners and for its heightened restrictions on freedom of expression and access to the Internet.

A former doctor and Boy Scout leader in Missouri who was convicted of sexually abusing a teenager will be released from prison Tuesday after serving four months behind bars.

A chaplain who was allegedly dismissed from his role at HMP Brixton Prison for having “extreme” Christian views has said that some prisoners are being forced to convert to Islam in exchange for protection from gangs.

An escapee from George County, Mississippi, was shot after allegedly carjacking a vehicle from a concealed carry permit holder.

A federal prison inmate in Atlanta, Georgia, published a Facebook Live video where he admitted to committing a murder that he hasn’t been charged for.

New York State prisoners are set to receive free tablet computers in order to “better prepare convicts for life after imprisonment.”

A Rhode Island rapper whose songs include “Sell Drugsz” has been sentenced to three years in prison for doing just that.

A New Jersey man who racked up 92 arrests throughout his life has been sentenced to 50 years behind bars for killing his son’s mother.

A judge sentenced a Pennsylvania man to prison after he was convicted of marrying his wife’s daughter without getting a divorce first.

LONDON (AP) — British prosecutors were under mounting pressure Saturday to explain why a former London taxi driver suspected of assaulting dozens of women is being freed after less than a decade in prison.

A North Carolina judge has sentenced a former felon to 37 months in jail after the man threatened a company with a cyberattack if they did not fire one of their employees and hire him.

A Florida man convicted of a hate crime for leaving bacon in a mosque and breaking the mosque’s windows has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.

A judge sentenced former Rep. Corrine Brown to five years in federal prison Monday after being convicted of mail, wire, and tax fraud in May.

The UK has set up two new ‘separation wings’ in prisons to isolate jihadists and other extremists and stop them spreading their murderous ideology.

A rising number of prisoners caught with extremist Islamist texts in UK jails is fuelling fears the prison system is becoming a hotbed of radicalisation.