The Latest Breaking News from Prison

There has been an average of 29 violent incidents per month as debt and gang tensions ‘boil over’

Little action has been taken on issue at one of UK’s most notorious jails, Independent Monitoring Board says

Ohio mother sentenced to life in prison for leaving 16-month-old daughter to die of starvation and dehydration. Tragic incident underscores parental respon...

Former Trump adviser Peter Navarro, aged 74, faces 4 months in Miami prison camp for contempt of Congress.

In tonight's edition: Gambian MPs debate a bill to end a ban on FGM. If reversed, The Gambia would become the first country ever to do so. Also, a Congolese court sentences a top journalist to six months in prison. Stanis Bujakera was arrested last year after an article suggesting…

The Supreme Court rejected Trump adviser Peter Navarro's effort to stay out of prison while he appeals conviction for contempt of Congress.

The 32-year-old Wall Street Journal reporter’s imprisonment is a gross injustice and an affront to press freedom

A girl in the United Kingdom's Wetherby Young Offender Institution twice had her clothes removed while being restrained by an all-male team of prison officers, according to a report by the Inspectorate of Prisons. The girl was reportedly trying to use her clothes to harm herself. Wetherby is a correctional…

Louise Powell says she hopes new guidance means fewer pregnant women are jailed and it can be the legacy of her child Brooke