The Latest Breaking News from Prison

Penal squads ‘just meat,’ Storm-Z soldier says

Rédouine Faïd, a convicted bank robber who escaped a French jail in a hijacked helicopter in 2018, has been sentenced to a further 14 years in prison

An Iowa woman who falsely claimed to have cancer will stay out of prison after a judge gave her probation and a suspended sentence

Charity Care4Calais says Wethersfield airbase in Essex is a ‘de facto prison camp’ for about 200 people

Australia is planning to obtain nuclear-powered submarines, but has nowhere to dispose of radioactive waste

The former FTX CEO, who is accused of orchestrating one of the largest financial frauds in history, plans to testify in his own criminal trial in a major gamble to avoid prison time.

Latest banned books list comes amid increase in type of books being banned from prison system, PEN America says

Series two of the acclaimed drama has a new cast and is set in a women's jail

An interesting new article in The Hill by my occasional coauthor T. Markus Funk, based on his upcoming Oxford University Comparative Law Forum piece on the subject; an excerpt: [I]t would be a mistake to accept the invitation to follow the examples of countries like Germany, Switzerland, Mexico, the Netherlands…