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Immediate measures to ease prison crisis set to be announced on Friday

David Blunkett backs calls demanding action on IPP sentences as Labour prepares to announce mass early release of other inmates

The prime minister has hit out at the inheritance left for him by the Conservatives and branded Britain’s prison system “broken”, speaking of his shock at discovering the scale of the crisis

The state’s AG office are trying to keep her behind bars on unrelated charges

As the dramatic arts fill the streets of Avignon, Arts 24 relocates to the southern city for a special edition. Olivia Salazar-Winspear takes us through the highlights of the annual event, which artistic director Tiago Rodrigues has called the festival of “resistance”. With Spanish as the selected language this year,…

In an interview with CNN's Kaitlan Collins on Wednesday, Cohen likened himself to a "political prisoner" detained for not relinquishing a constitutional right.

Former Indonesian agriculture minister sentenced to 10 years in prison for corruption-related offenses, raising concerns about anti-corruption efforts in t...

A Moscow court on Thursday upheld a prison sentence against Nobel Prize-winning rights advocate Oleg Orlov, after the campaigner compared Russia's justice system to that of Nazi Germany.

Indonesia’s anti-graft court has sentenced a former agriculture minister to 10 years in prison for extortion, abuse of power and bribery involving ministry contracts with private vendors