Former HMP Wandsworth prison officer Linda De Sousa Abreu has been jailed for 15 months for misconduct, following a viral ...

A former UK prison officer, Linda De Sousa Abreu, has been sentenced to 15 months in prison after being caught on video ...

Lagos police have broken their silence after a report said confessed killer, Ayomide Adeleye, is not in prison for murder.

It has not been possible to contact the family of the man who was killed - even the Nigeria prison service has been unable to find them. As prison officials look on, he tells me that his father ...

was released from prison last month after serving a six-month sentence for abusing naira, the local currency. But a court dismissed money laundering charges. Nigeria was last year ranked 145 out ...

The governor exercised the prerogative of mercy granted him by the Nigerian Constitution. In the exercise of his prerogative of mercy, Governor Peter Mbah of Enugu State has freed seven prison inmates ...

The Nigeria Correctional Service, NCoS, Abia State Command, has denied allegations that its officials are hostile to inmates with disabilities who are serving inside custodial centres in the state.

Rufai, on Thursday visited the Kaduna State Correctional Service Facility to see his former Chief of Staff, Bashir Saidu, who was remanded in the facility.

Following the Ibadan stampede, the former queen of the Ooni of Ife, Naomi Silekunola, fainted in prison. A video of Naomi's ...

Mr Farotimi faces separate criminal trials over his widely circulated book, Nigeria and its Criminal Justice System.