The Latest Breaking News from Prison

A man who had been jailed for assault is found two days after he allegedly ditched his handcuffs and fled from a Rockhampton hospital.

Tens of thousands fewer women were incarcerated in the U.S. between 2019 and 2020 due to COVID-19, but as prison populations creep back to pre-pandemic norms, more children are being separated from their mothers, putting them at greater risk of health and behavioral problems, and making them vulnerable to abuse…

Fiona Cruickshanks claims guards spending more time searching for contraband would mean less “meaningful engagement” with prisoners.

Kathleen Folbigg, 55, was convicted of murdering her children Patrick, Sarah and Laura, as well as manslaughter of her first child Caleb, who all died between 1989 and 1999

Violent brute Warren Dumbrell, 48, who along with his brother Jeffrey was jailed in 2011 for the murder of Chris Cawley in Inchicore, Dublin, has been spending hours every day in his cell practising his meditative poses.

Far-left supporters of a young woman given a lengthy prison sentence for participating in attacks on neo-Nazis and other extremists clashed with police in the eastern German city of Leipzig over the weekend

A joint fatal accident inquiry was launched into the deaths of Katie Allan and teenager William Lindsay, who both took their lives within months of each other at Polmont Young Offenders Institution.

Imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny has voiced hope for a better future in Russia as his supporters held demonstrations to mark his birthday

Terence Lockhart died in the palliative care suite at HMP Holme House in Stockton on July 14, 2022 - two months after being told his lung cancer was terminal