The Latest Breaking News from Prison

Writer could be imprisoned if found guilty over comments castigating Italian PM for her vitriol about Mediterranean rescues

The judge spent part of the hearing asking about Chicago’s persistent public corruption problem. At one point he stopped a prosecutor and asked, ‘Why does public corruption keep happening?’

BA captain Robert Brown beat his wife Joanna Simpson to death with a claw hammer in their family home in October 2010.

Defendants on bail set to remain free or in court cells while some inmates will be released early

The senior presiding judge in England and Wales is said to have called for a delay to sentencings to avoid more criminals being put behind bars.

Petty Officer Wenheng Zhao faces up to 20 years in prison

Professor and global expert on Uyghur folklore Rahile Dawut was reportedly sentenced to life in prison after going missing six years ago

Tim Darby stands in Downing Street with mother of Jason Moore, who he believes has been wrongly imprisoned for almost a decade

An Arizona inmate had to endure her body being pulled by force when a technician allowed her to go into an MRI scan with her shackles still on

My father is suffering from dehydration in Rajamahendravaram prison, says Lokesh. Former Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu is being denied the Class-A facilities he is entitled to in prison, and the YSRCP government is not treating him with the dignity he deserves, alleges Lokesh.

SCOTS paedophile John Barr, who raped and sexually abused two young girls for almost 10 years, has died in prison.