The Latest Breaking News from Prison

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

At Macquarie Correctional Centre in western New South Wales, a story of collaboration and persistence is unfolding. Inmates and prison officers are farming commercial quantities of fresh food in a purpose-built indoor facility.

Judges will be able punish those who refuse to attend court under ‘long overdue reforms’ following outcry over killers who fail to face victim’s families at sentencing

Bronson’s last parole hearing, in 2023, was one of the first to be held in public, but the board did not grant his latest application

A federal appeals court has upheld the racketeering convictions of imprisoned former Republican Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and ex-lobbyist Matt Borges in a $60 million bribery scheme

James Timpson says he will fight ‘normalised’ sexual harassment, bullying and racism within prison service

A Michigan court says it won’t accept an appeal from a school shooter who was sentenced to life in prison in 2023 for killing four students and wounding others

Bronson was the first prisoner to formally ask for a public hearing after rules changed in 2022.