The Latest Breaking News from Prison

A new Australian Institute of Health and Welfare report on the health of people in Australian prisons makes for sobering reading.

Justice K. Chandru Committee recommends TN govt pull down existing CCL homes, create new ones that don't look like prisons. It also suggests setting up exclusive board to administer homes, bifurcating Directorate of Social Defence, and enacting legislation for setting up TN Board for Special Services for Children.

Aisha Cleary was born at HMP Bronzefield in Surrey in the early hours of September 27 2019, but died at 9.03am that morning.

Former Arizona Corrections Director Charles Ryan has pleaded no contest to a disorderly conduct charge

There's fresh insight into the challenges prisoners face with about half expecting to become homeless and a majority living with a mental health condition.

Participants in Northwestern University prison education program will graduate despite having to work through Covid-19 pandemic

A new book alleges that President Donald Trump once hung up on Kim Kardashian when she called him about prison reform.

Sergei Khadzhikurbanov was given 20-year prison sentence in 2014 for role in killing investigative journalist

The verdict came in a petition filed by a murder convict who sought the commutation of his death penalty to life imprisonment

The former prime minister of Côte d'Ivoire, sentenced to life in prison for undermining national security, said on Monday that he has been in Niamey since Saturday and met with Niger coup leader Tiani. On Sunday. He also announced that he was ending his self-imposed exile, which began in 2019.

Human rights groups say Zimbabwean authorities are ‘weaponising the law to target opposition figures’ like Sikhala.