The Latest Breaking News from Prison

Australians wrongfully detained oversees are decrying being freed only to fall through the cracks back home, citing lack of support for them and their families.

A former school counsellor who used hypnosis to sexually abuse young boys will most likely die in jail after receiving a minimum two-decade prison sentence.

Most of Erik and Lyle Menendez's family members agree the brothers should be released for murdering their parents, except their mother's brother who says they're greedy and lied about being molested.

Drawn into Islamist activism as a teenager, Sinwar spent 22 years in Israeli jails before return to frontline militancy

A North Dakota woman will serve 25 years in prison in connection with the antifreeze poisoning death of her boyfriend

Demetrius “Big Meech” Flenory, who co-founded the notorious drug trafficking organization Black Mafia Family, is serving out the remainder of his prison sentence in a residential reentry program in Miami

Lucy Letby, a former neonatal nurse, was convicted after two trials of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven more at the Countess of Chester Hospital. Sentenced to life imprisonment following a case which many believe was built on circumstantial evidence, Letby has consistently maintained her innocence.

Sinwar was born in Khan Younis, Gaza, and became involved with Hamas in the 1980s

A decade of selling diapers and baby products earned Nguyen Thi Huong a modest savings of $20,000 but her earnings vanished in Vietnam's biggest-ever scam that has seen the tycoon responsible sentenced to life in prison.