The Latest Breaking News from Prison

Iran has summoned France’s representative in protest after the French foreign minister praised a prize-winning Iranian film as “a gesture of resistance against the Iranian regime’s oppression.”

A territory government hopes to turn part of a university agricultural college into a prison farm work camp to help ease pressure on overcrowded jails.

Editorial: David Gauke’s review gives penal policy in England and Wales a once-in-a-generation opportunity to move in more constructive direction

It’s one of the hardest conversations a parent or caregiver might ever face—explaining to a child that someone they love is in prison. Whether it’s a parent, sibling, aunt, or grandparent, the emotions tied to incarceration can be complicated and overwhelming, especially for young children. Avoiding the topic entirely might…

Kilmar Abrego Garcia fled El Salvador as a teen over fears he would be recruited by transnational street gang

Panahi, long censored and previously imprisoned in his home country, took top prize as Sentimental Value and The Secret Agent also honoured

The man says he was raped, held prisoner and targeted for being gay while in Mexico last year

Another New Orleans woman has been arrested for allegedly helping some of the 10 inmates after they escaped the Orleans Parish Justice Center on May 16

Tory Lanez’s alleged prison attacker says he thought the rapper was coming to kill him so he hit out first.