The Latest Breaking News from Prison

Alcatraz shut in 1963, with its most feared inmates moved to prisons across the US. Though the island fell silent, its dark legacy still grips the world.

Three of five former Memphis, Tennessee, police officers have been acquitted on all state charges in the 2023 fatal beating of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols

Hungary earlier released at least 2000 foreign people smugglers from prison, ordering them to leave the country. The European Commission thinks it's a violation of European law.

Charlie Hopkins believes president is not serious about reviving storied San Francisco jail

Locked in a windowless cell with the lights on day and night, French teacher Cécile Kohler and her partner Jacques Paris on Wednesday marked three years in Iran’s notorious Evin Prison. As the anniversary passes, Kohler’s sister has told RFI their situation is unbearable and deteriorating fast.

Offenders could face up to three months in prison and fined £1,000 for desecrating the monument to the former prime minister

A truck driver who crushed another man with his truck in a tragic road-rage incident has had his prison sentence reduced after an appeal..

The teenagers were found with the ants, which authorities said were destined for European and Asian markets, in an emerging trend of trafficking lesser-known wildlife species.

The pair have been fined $7,700 or the option to serve the maximum penalty for violating wildlife conservation laws in prison