The Latest Breaking News from Prison

‘A natural antidepressant’: how working with the land is helping ex-prisoners

Reoffending rates are just 5% after a placement at LandWorks in Devon, where they grow, cook and sell their produce

The Guardian - UK · Aug 16, 2025

Companies With No Prison Background Seek Share of Trump's $45B Migrant Detention Plan: Report

Private prison giants such as Geo Group Inc. remain key ICE partners, yet the administration reportedly views temporary tent camps as a faster solution to overcrowding

Latin Times · Aug 16, 2025

How ‘Devil in Ozarks’ escaped prison: Elaborate six-month plan revealed

Hardin, who worked in the prison’s kitchen, spent six months orchestrating his escape

The Independent UK · Aug 15, 2025

Five Drug Lords Now At Infamous Brooklyn Prison After Arrival Of 'La Tuta'

The infamous population of Brooklyn MDC prison keeps stacking up with the arrival of a new drug lord: Servando Gomez Martinez, known as "La Tuta" and former leader of La Familia Michoacana

Latin Times · Aug 15, 2025

Far-right Israeli minister taunts jailed Palestinian leader in prison visit

Itamar Ben-Gvir posts video footage showing him making threatening remarks to a gaunt Marwan Barghouti

The Guardian - UK · Aug 15, 2025

Babysitter who provided young girls to her boyfriend for sexual assault sentenced to 100 years in prison

Brittney Lyon provided her boyfriend Samuel Cabrera girls as young as three to drug, bind and abuse in exchange for going on dates, prosecutors say

The Independent UK · Aug 15, 2025

Palestinians condemn Israel’s Ben-Gvir over Marwan Barghouti threat

Footage shows far-right minister taunting 66-year-old Palestinian leader during jail visit.

Al Jazeera · Aug 15, 2025

Afghan women feel forgotten by world after four years of ‘war’ waged by Taliban on their rights

While the rest of the world pays little attention, the Taliban’s edicts eroding women’s basic rights have only grown in number. Former female inmates of the group’s prisons tell Arpan Rai they are being brutally enforced

The Independent UK · Aug 15, 2025

Ex-guard at California women’s prison sentenced to 224 years for sexual abuse

Gregory Rodriguez convicted of more than 60 charges of abusing women in his custody over nearly a decade

The Guardian - US · Aug 14, 2025

Private Prison Giant Ordered to Pay Tens Of Millions for Paying Immigrant Detainees $1 a Day For Work

A federal appeals court has upheld a ruling that The GEO Group must pay more than $23 million for paying working immigrant detainees at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma as little as $1 per day.

Latin Times · Aug 14, 2025