The Latest Breaking News from Prison

Ex-French president Nicolas Sarkozy arrives at prison to begin five-year sentence over Gaddafi money plan

The 70-year-old becomes the first former French leader to be jailed since Nazi collaborator Marshal Philippe Petain

Evening Standard · Oct 21, 2025

Poland threatens Putin with arrest if he flies through its airspace on way to Hungary – as it happened

Poland’s foreign minister says Putin’s plane could be escorted down as attacks continue with four killed in drone strike in Chernihiv

The Guardian - UK · Oct 21, 2025

Life sentence for tenant who brutally murdered landlady

An evicted tenant who murdered his helpless elderly landlady in a sudden and violent rampage will spend the next 20 years in prison.

AAP · Oct 21, 2025

Tories will seek to prevent early release of rapists in sentencing reforms

The Sentencing Bill will include an ‘earned progression scheme’, which allows prisoners who demonstrate good behaviour to be freed earlier.

Evening Standard · Oct 20, 2025

Ex-New York prison guard found guilty of murder in beating death of prisoner

David Kingsley’s conviction comes after handcuffed Robert Brooks was fatally beaten at Marcy correctional facility

The Guardian - US · Oct 20, 2025

Sarkozy received by Macron at Élysée Palace before five-year prison term starts on Tuesday

A Paris court found Sarkozy guilty of criminal conspiracy in connection with the alleged Libyan financing of his 2007 presidential campaign and setenced him to five years in prison.

Euronews · Oct 20, 2025

Palestine Action activists awaiting trial in prison to go on hunger strike

Prisoners say they have no other option and issue demands to Home Office including immediate bail

The Guardian - UK · Oct 20, 2025

France's former president Sarkozy will begin serving a 5-year prison sentence Tuesday

Nicolas Sarkozy is set to become the first former French president in living memory to be imprisoned

The Independent UK · Oct 20, 2025

At least 135 mutilated bodies of Palestinians had been held at notorious Israeli jail, say Gaza officials

Documents indicate they came from Sde Teiman, which already faces allegations of torture and unlawful deaths

The Guardian - UK · Oct 20, 2025

Prison officer and inmate appear in court over alleged sexual relationship

Alicia Novas, 19, is charged with committing misconduct while working at HMP Five Wells with the encouragement of 30-year-old Declan Winkless.

Evening Standard · Oct 20, 2025