HERE is a look back at some of the most shocking court cases the Star reported on in July. A man was given a short prison sentence for threatening to share an intimate photograph of a woman.

Bodyworn footage shows prison officers laughing and singing as an “inappropriate and disproportionate” restraint was carried out on an inmate moments before his death.

A cockroach-infested prison that illegally detained inmates for longer than their release date in "frightening conditions" has been put into special measures.

Prisoners have been illegally detained longer than their release date and held in “frightening” conditions at a cockroach-infested jail put into special measures by a watchdog. Chief inspector of ...

Inmates at a UK prison have been unlawfully kept behind bars beyond their release dates and subjected to "frightening" living conditions in a prison riddled with cockroaches, prompting urgent ...

The watchdog said data from the prison showed 130 inmates – 20% of those eligible for release – had been held illegally after their release date in the last six months.

The watchdog said data from the prison showed 130 inmates – 20% of those eligible for release – had been held illegally after their release date in the last six months.

Alongside our robust search strategy and mobile phone detection equipment, we are working with Leicestershire Police and HM Prison and Probation Service to target those individuals who flout the ...

A company has been given the go-ahead to extend a quarry - provided it starts work later at weekends so inmates in a nearby prison can have a lie-in. Bosses at HMP Stoke Heath in Shropshire ...

A company has been given the go-ahead to extend a quarry - provided it starts work later at weekends so inmates in a nearby prison can have a lie-in. Bosses at HMP Stoke Heath in Shropshire ...

Prisoners have been illegally detained longer than their release date and held in “frightening” conditions at a cockroach-infested jail put into special measures by a watchdog. Chief inspector of ...