The Latest Breaking News from Prison

A parliamentary hearing in South Africa has been told that a man serving a life sentence for murder and rape who escaped from a top-security prison by faking his own burning death likely got warders to help smuggle a corpse into his cell

The Imprisonment for Public Protection sentence (IPP) was abolished in 2012 and branded 'unjust'

Savannah Chrisley opens up about being advised to stay away from her parents ahead of their incarcerations.

An advocacy group for prisoners’ rights has filed a civil rights lawsuit against corrections officers who allegedly ignored requirements that they videotape a prison-cell encounter with an inmate, who says he was sexually abused, beaten without provocation and taunted with words that evoked the 2020 death of George Floyd at…

The dramatic footage showed the prisoner clambering precariously along the roof of the jail wearing a makeshift waterproof fashioned from what appears to be a bin bag amid cold and rainy conditions

In a video from the scene, the prisoner is seen gesturing and shouting, while concentrating on keeping his balance amidst high winds and rain, which made the roof visibly wet and possibly slippery.

Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is reportedly in failing health because of a new suspected poisoning

Specialist negotiators are at the scene along with police officers and paramedics

An inmate can still be seen on top of Strangeways prison in Manchester, standing on a sliding roof, where he has been for six hours as police negotiators attempt to bring him down

Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has returned to the New York prison system after spending nearly two years in California, where he was tried and convicted of raping an Italian actor and model

The 29-year-old received a suspended sentence