The Latest Breaking News from Prison

Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, 57, was captured in 2003 and pleaded guilty to drug trafficking, money laundering and extortion

Authorities say the security forces have the situation under control, but the number of casualties is unclear.

A former ethnic Greek mayor of an Albanian town whose imprisonment on vote-buying charges has strained Albanian-Greek ties has been released on probation

Denise David bought her brother a plane ticket to St Lucia after he shot dead Sam Brown at a party in Waltham Forest

Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson's detention in a Greenland prison pending his possible extradition to Japan has not prevented him from continuing his fight to save the animals, he told AFP in an interview.

It is the first time such notification has been given to a category C prison focusing on training and resettlement

From wild reactions to the news of a murder to a prison meeting that lit up the screen, the third instalment of James Graham’s drama was never dull

The Boston Herald (Flint McColgan) reports: One of the four men charged in a conspiracy to harass and intimidate a New Hampshire journalist for negative coverage of the founder of a mental health and addiction treatment center was sentenced to more than two years in federal prison. U.S. District Court…

Melissa Wolfenbarger, a 21-year-old married mother-of-two, had been missing for four years before her remains were finally identified. But decades passed and the identity of her killer remained a mystery – until now. Crime Scene Investigator Sheryl ‘Mac’ McCollum tells Andrea Cavallier how her podcast, with help from experts, the…

Lack of funding, resources and rehabilitation leads to ‘bored and angry’ prisoners, Wendy Sinclair-Gieben says

The US actor heads a cast largely made up of former inmates in Greg Kwedar’s low-key tale about the redemptive power of theatre