Step inside Cork City Gaol and you're transported into Ireland's judicial past where you can almost hear the footsteps of 19th-century inmates echoing through the corridors.This imposing former prison ...

This short film explores Victorian punishments through the eyes of John, a young offender who was sent to prison for six months in January 1876.

Jane Angus, aged 12, tells us how she was caught stealing and sent to a residential school where young criminals were taught a trade to stop them re-offending.

Pictures offer rare glimpse of life behind bars for 300 inmates at tough Victorian prison Student given access to cons who told her of despair behind bars News By ...

Inspectors have praised a Scottish prison built in Victorian times for being "well-run" and its staff for their "caring and compassionate attitude". They found that prisoners at HMP Dumfries were ...

A WOMAN found a Victorian Prison hidden in a secret basement underneath her shop. The last thing Clair Meeson expected when she bought a derelict hardware store in Rugeley, Staffs., was to find cop… ...

Paul Denyer, who murdered three women in Melbourne's south-east in 1993, would remain behind bars for the rest of his life under new laws set to be introduced by the Victorian government.

Woman arrested in prison sex tape probe as video shows female prison guard and inmate in cell A woman has been arrested as part of a probe into a sex tape allegedly filmed inside a London prison.

These photos offer an insight into what life is like inside HMP Liverpool as a refurbishment continues. Walton jail, officially known as HMP Liverpool, was once dubbed as Britain's worst prison ...