The Latest Breaking News from Prison

A limit of campfire height, charging not allowed and no noise after 10pm are among the extensive guidelines

An Indiana man charged with killing two teenage girls will remain in prison after a judge concluded he’s being treated better there than other inmates

Robert Hanssen, the former FBI agent caught selling damaging secrets to the Russians during and after the Cold War, died of natural causes last month inside Colorado’s notorious Supermax prison, the El Paso County coroner found.

A Hialeah man was sentenced to over a decade in federal prison on Tuesday for stealing more than $30,000 from a bank before fleeing from police on a bicycle.

An alleged sex trafficker who falsely claimed he was incapable of sexual activity when testifying during his criminal federal trial was sentenced Tuesday to 21 months in federal prison for committing perjury.

A military veteran who stormed the U.S. Capitol with a loaded pistol, metal-plated body armor and a gas mask has been sentenced to seven years in prison

Jimenez won a $25 million wrongful-conviction verdict for a killing when he was 13, then lavished cash on his gang. After his 12-year term, “I think he wants to lead a normal life,” his lawyer says.

Egypt's state-run media are saying that President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi has pardoned a group of prisoners, including two prominent rights activists

Patrick Zaki had been sentenced to three years in prison on Tuesday after being accused of spreading ‘false news’.

Twenty-seven people in the Democratic Republic of Congo were sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping passengers who had the misfortune of getting into their fake taxis. But despite this mass sentencing, which took place between July 5 and 7, people in Kinshasa are still terrified by the rising number…

The Long Island, New York, man who admitted swindling hundreds of millions of dollars from investors through his EminiFX cryptocurrency and foreign-exchange platform was sentenced to nine years in prison.