The Latest Breaking News from Prison

A campaign urging Iran to free Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi says the activist has begun a hunger strike over the conditions of her imprisonment and the country’s requirement that women wear headscarves

Many of the women in prison are there for low-level crimes, but short sentences for non-violent offences can upend their entire lives, leaving them at risk of losing their job, home and children. Katie Rosseinsky explores how the second series of BBC prison drama ‘Time’ shows the stark differences for…

Jimmy McGovern’s prison drama shifts its focus without pulling its punches; Basil Fawlty is alive and well on GB News; and Roman Kemp proves a great campaigner for young people’s mental health

Many of the women in prison are there for low-level crimes, but short sentences for non-violent offences can upend their entire lives, leaving them at risk of losing their job, home and children. Katie Rosseinsky explores how the second series of BBC prison drama ‘Time’ shows the stark differences for…

Firefighters are battling multiple ferocious blazes across WA, including a fire south-east of Perth that is threatening homes and lives.

Hamas has said that the group would only release all 240 Israeli hostages held in Gaza if Israel agrees to free all Palestinian prisoners. Among those locked up is Marwan Barghouti, sentenced to life imprisonment in 2004 for deadly attacks against Israelis. For many Palestinians, their “Nelson Mandela” is a…

Exclusive: Government plans to stop judges sending criminals convicted of harassment, stalking and revenge porn to prison – but campaigners warn they could slip through the net

After spending six years in prison in Iran, she also said she found it ‘very hard to adjust’ to being back in the UK.

Former Guinean dictator Moussa Dadis Camara was on Saturday broken out of prison by a heavily armed commando during an operation that sparked heavy gunfire in the capital Conakry.