The Latest Breaking News from Prison

The repurposed Forest prison in Brussels has opened its doors to the public to highlight the difficulties facing the prison system in Belgium, as overcrowding threatens inmates’ safety and hinders their reintegration.

These self-employed prisoners earned more than inmates in traditional prison jobs and were more likely than other inmates to be rehabilitated.

Parviz Sabeti crafted a low-profile life for his family – but now he faces a $225m lawsuit over atrocities committed in prisons in Tehran and elsewhere

The British ambassador to the US has been sacked over his ties to the paedophile financier

The British ambassador to the US’s links to Jeffrey Epstein go back decades.

Queensland supreme court judge says Irving ‘fought for some 30 years to have the state recognise the wrong that occurred, without any apology’

The wife of former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez is set to be sentenced for her role in a bribery scheme that sent the once-influential Democrat to prison

"She was studying law? She didn't study too hard."

Secret memos made public this week show Trump administration’s arrangement with Nayib Bukele to jail Venezuelans

Naasón Joaquín García, the self-proclaimed "Apostle of Jesus Christ" and head of the Mexican megachurch La Luz del Mundo, was formally indicted Tuesday in a federal court in Manhattan on charges of sex trafficking, child exploitation, and conspiracy to engage in organized crime.

Epstein took his own life in prison in August 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges, more than a decade after his conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor.