Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from Prison

Serial drink-driver led police on chase after attending popular carnival

Amir Khan has been caught drink-driving six times and driving while disqualified four times

Wales Online

Reality Winner finds Trump’s Mar-a-Lago documents case ‘incredibly ironic’

Former intelligence contractor served four years in prison for leaking report on Russian interference in 2016 election

The Guardian - US

Delays leave man facing four years in Leicester jail without trial

Exclusive: Case of Voja Petkovic highlights pressures on criminal justice that campaigners warn is leading to miscarriages of justice

The Guardian - UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Russian inmates ‘told they’ll be freed if they survive six-months on Ukraine frontline’

Leaked footage shows the founder of Russia’s Wagner Group attempting to recruit prisoners

Evening Standard

New batch of Syrian prison photos opens 'old wounds'

It had been nearly a decade since Mahmoud al-Khalaf laid eyes on his father, but he immediately recognised the bruised and battered face in the graphic photograph circulating online.

Reuters

How much do states spend on prisons?

Southern states spend the least per inmate and have some of the highest incarceration rates in the nation.

USAFacts

How much do states spend on prisoners?

Southern states spend the least per inmate and have some of the highest incarceration rates in the nation.

USAFacts

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Family grieve Josh Kerr, Aboriginal man who died in Port Phillip Prison, as coronial inquest begins

Josh Kerr died in a cell in the medical unit of Port Phillip Prison in Melbourne's West in August. He is one of two Indigenous men to die in a Victorian prison in the past five weeks.

ABC News

Cambodia begins treason trial of 37 opposition figures

A trial has begun in Cambodia for activists and former opposition lawmakers accused of a treason conspiracy for allegedly trying to help an exiled political candidate return home

The Independent UK

Data | Tamil Nadu and Gujarat have a disproportionate share of Scheduled Caste detainees in their prisons

The share of the Scheduled Caste detenues in Indian prisons saw an increase from 18% in 2019 to 23% in 2021

The Hindu

Syrian Ex-prisoners Haunted by Horrors of 'Salt Rooms'

When a Syrian prison guard tossed him into a dimly-lit room, the inmate Abdo was surprised to find himself standing ankle-deep in what appeared to be salt. On that day in the winter of 2017, the terrified young man had already been locked up for two years in war-torn Syria's…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange awarded keys to Mexico City as family lobbies for his release

Mr Assange remains in London's Belmarsh Prison pending an appeal against his extradition to the United States.

ABC News

R. Kelly’s federal trial in Chicago results in split verdict; singer faces possibility of longer prison term after conviction on child pornography charges

CHICAGO — It took more than two decades for “Jane” to come forward about the sexual abuse she suffered at the hands of her godfather, R&B superstar R. Kelly.

Chicago Tribune

Texas man gets life in prison without parole for killing cop

A man has drawn an automatic sentence of life in prison without parole after a jury convicted him of capital murder in the shooting death of a Dallas-area police officer

The Independent UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Evening Standard

Serial: Adnan Syed’s murder conviction that was podcast subject ‘should be thrown out’

Syed has served more than 20 years in prison for the strangling of Lee

Reason

Hiring Formerly Incarcerated People Is Good, Actually

Some conservative media outlets and politicians lambast the practice. But if you care about public safety, that opposition doesn't make sense.

Irish Mirror

Adnan Syed from viral Serial podcast could be released from prison as prosecutors find two new murder suspects

The bombshell news comes as prosecutors say two other suspects could be in the frame for the murder of the then 18-year-old Hae Min Lee

Liverpool Echo

Drunk mum swung knife at neighbour while wearing pyjamas

Catherine Hunter carried out the bizarre attack in Eastham earlier this year

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Evening Standard

Iowa court orders girl who killed accused rapist to pay his family $150,000

Human trafficking victim placed on probation with risk of 20 years’ prison for manslaughter

Tribune News Service

Sherri Papini’s lawyer asks for 1 month in prison, 7 months in home detention in kidnap hoax

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — One day after federal prosecutors asked for an eight-month prison sentence for Sherri Papini for her 2016 kidnap hoax, her attorney asked a judge to give the 40-year-old Redding-area woman a one-month sentence in custody with seven more in home detention.

The Independent UK

High Court rejects bid by trans row teacher to end his suspension by school

Enoch Burke, who is an evangelical Christian, was suspended from work on full pay last month.

The Independent UK

Prosecutors seek eight-month prison sentence for Sherri Papini over faked kidnapping

The kidnapping scheme began back in November 2016 when Ms Papini seemed to disappear while out for a jog

WEKU

In a surprise, the defense rests early in the Parkland school shooting trial

Nikolas Cruz has already pleaded guilty to killing 17 people and wounding others at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018. Jurors are deciding whether he'll be executed or spend life in prison.

Wales Online

Woman taken to hospital after being moved five times to different immigration detention centres

Christine worked in a prison in the Democratic Republic of Congo but refused to carry out inhumane acts

The Independent UK

Alabama must disclose status of nitrogen hypoxia executions

A federal judge told Alabama to stop being vague and give a firm answer by Thursday evening on if the prison system might use the untested execution method of nitrogen hypoxia at an execution next week

1 … 835 836 837 838

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School

Alabama Department of Corrections

24 stories

Sacramento Bee

21 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.