The Latest Breaking News from Prison

From a Justice Department press release Jan. 30: Aimenn D. Penny, 20, of Alliance, Ohio, was arrested and charged last year with one count of violating the Church Arson Prevention Act, one count of using fire to commit a federal felony, one count of malicious use of explosive materials, and…

More than one-quarter of ACT prisoners are First Nations people.

Here's what you need to know about the Ochoa brothers in Griselda including whether they were ever imprisoned for their crimes

"I’ll pay them what I can, which won’t be very much money, that’s for sure."

Alex Henry says he was jailed for ‘associating with bad company’ and, like many others, is hoping for reform to the law

An Israeli radio station is broadcasting messages and songs to hostages in Gaza, and a Palestinian station in the West Bank is broadcasting families' messages to relatives recently jailed in Israel.

Imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny calls for Russians to protest Putin by forming long queues at polling stations on election day.

The sentence came after the 78-year-old former intelligence chief - who was already in prison due to his other convictions, pleaded guilty earlier this week to charges related to the 1992 massacre of six farmers who were accused of being members of a rebel group.

In today’s newsletter: The cricket star turned politician has been convicted of corruption and banned from office – but is that the end of his story?

Hundreds of women sentenced for practices such as studying the Qur’an, dating back as far back as 60s and 70s, analysis of Chinese police files shows

An Indigenous man with a history of mental illness was taken off a waiting list for treatment just days before he died in prison, an inquest has heard.