The Latest Breaking News from Prison

The U.S. ambassador to Russia has met with imprisoned American Paul Whelan, who is serving a 16-year sentence on an espionage conviction that both Washington and Whelan dispute

The wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been released from federal custody after completing a three-year sentence for helping him run his multibillion-dollar criminal empire

Former president faces cases in Washington, Florida, New York and Georgia which could land him in prison. Josh Marcus explains each one

Ex-president faces 91 felony counts across four prosecutions

Republican former president faces federal indictments in Florida and DC and criminal and civil cases in both New York and Georgia

Women face 60 lashes and prison for not wearing headscarf

The Department of Prisons of Andhra Pradesh has decided to tighten the security cover for TDP national president and former Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu in the wake of concerns by his family members over the possible threat to his life in the Rajahmundry Central Prison, the authorities have said.  

Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leaders and activists staged relay hunger strikes across Tirupati district on September 13 (Wednesday) in support of their party’s national president N. Chandrababu Naidu who is lodged in the Rajahmundry Central Prison in connection with the alleged skill development corporation scam.

TDCJ will allocate $85 million to provide air conditioning to more units. In the meantime, is heat killing people in Texas prisons?

Opposition submits list of 16 experts to Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs examining Bills to replace criminal laws; panel to consider Supreme Court/High Court judges, legal scholars, prison officials, reform activists, ethnic/religious leaders, cyber crime experts.

IOPC to examine whether officers may have committed offences over case of man imprisoned after wrongful rape conviction