The Latest Breaking News from Prison

The picture Ruth Dodsworth's abusive ex-husband sent her children as he tried to manipulate them

Jonathan Wignall is due to be out of prison later this year but ITV presenter Ruth says she won't let him ruin her new life

Wales Online · May 5, 2022

Brickbat: At Least They'll Be Used to Prison

Florida Department of Corrections employees Ronald Connor, Christopher Rolon, and Kirk Walton have been charged with second-degree murder, aggravated abuse of an elderly or disabled adult, and battery/cruel treatment of a detainee in the beating death of inmate Ronald Gene Ingram. Ingram was being transferred from Dade Correctional Institution, where…

Reason · May 5, 2022

North Korea Cracks Down on ‘Capitalist’ Pop Culture

An increase in the scale of prison and labor camps in North Korea suggests more people are falling foul of the regime’s rules on deviation from the socialist norm, analysts say.

The News Lens · May 5, 2022

Abuse-clouded prison gets attention, but will things change?

The director of the federal Bureau of Prisons and a task force of senior agency officials traveled recently to a federal women's prison in California

The Independent UK · May 5, 2022

Boris Becker could be booted out of UK after serving prison sentence

The German, jailed for bankruptcy fraud, has lived in Britain since 2012 but will be considered for deportation.

Daily Record · May 5, 2022

Alice Springs prison guards walk off job

About 60 corrections officers have walked off the job in Alice Springs over the Northern Territory government's public sector pay freeze, a union says.

AAP · May 5, 2022

Dept to ensure better prison food after complaints

The Department of Corrections will check the quality of food served in penitentiaries nationwide and it will assume responsibility if any inmates fall ill from prison food.

Bangkok Post · May 5, 2022

Rapper Kidd Creole sentenced to 16 years in prison for fatally stabbing homeless man

Rapper Kidd Creole was found guilty of first-degree manslaughter last month after stabbing a homeless man and received his sentence on Wednesday

Daily Mirror · May 5, 2022

Man gets life in prison for fatally stabbing Houston boy

A man has been sentenced to life in prison for fatally stabbing an 11-year-old Houston boy as the child walked home from school in 2016

The Independent UK · May 5, 2022

Jail official visited inmate in prison months before escape

An Alabama sheriff says a jail official visited a murder suspect in prison months before helping him escape and that her actions suggest their plan had been in the works for some time

The Independent UK · May 4, 2022