The Latest Breaking News from Prison

Forensic scientist Henry Lee is defending his work after a court ruling found him liable for fabricating evidence in a Connecticut murder trial that sent two innocent men to prison for decades

Savannah Chrisley, the daughter of Todd and Julie Chrisley, mentions snakes while making more claims about parents' prison conditions.

They are reported to have escaped through a bathroom ceiling

A Colorado businessman convicted of fraudulently siphoning hundreds of thousands of dollars from an online fundraiser to build a wall along the U.S. southern border has been sentenced to five years and three months in prison

Andrew Malkinson cleared by the Court of Appeal

Appeal court hears ‘grave and repeated’ disclosure failures led to Andrew Malkinson, 57, spending 17 years in prison for rape

The American activist and whistleblower was imprisoned from 2010 until 2017 when her sentence was commuted by President Barack Obama

I don’t want more prisons and punishment for men – I want to help prevent sexual assault so that women are safer in the first place, says campaigner Gina Martin

Told of the sentence, Jaslyn’s father said, “I pray that he learns from it. I pray that he understands the severity of what happened and what this situation has done to our family.”

The Vatican prosecutor has asked a court to convict 10 people, including a cardinal, of a range of financial crimes, sentence them to three to 13 years in prison and order the confiscation of more than $460 million to pay the Holy See back for large financial losses over the…

Justice systems around the world are using artificial intelligence (AI) to assess people with criminal convictions. These AI technologies rely on machine learning algorithms and their key purpose is to predict the risk of reoffending. They influence decisions made by the courts and prisons and by parole and probation officers.