The Latest Breaking News from Prison

A coroner has reminded WA's deputy corrections commissioner she is under oath amid tough questions at an inquest for a teen who died in custody.

Allies of the 73-year-old anti-whaling activist Paul Watson have said that prison time would amount to a ‘life sentence’

It is a year since London School of Economics professor Gubad Ibadoghlu was unlawfully imprisoned in Azerbaijan. Tom Watling speaks to his son, 24-year-old Ibad

From the Justice Department's Thursday press release: The former Senior Manager of Special Operations for eBay's Global Security Team was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for his role in a cyberstalking campaign targeting a Massachusetts couple. The defendant and his co-conspirators harassed and intimidated the victims in retaliation…

German Moyzhes was arrested in St Petersburg in late May and is being held in pretrial detention in a Moscow prison.

Van de Velde was sentenced to four years in prison in 2016

Training facilities, a health clinic and school are built into a new youth prison the government calls a "common sense" solution to crime and justice issues.

A mother who forced her daughter to marry a man who would go on to kill her should be jailed to send a message to the community, a court has been told.

Pakistan's Interior Ministry says police have raided the imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s political party office in Islamabad and arrested its spokesman for carrying out anti-state propaganda

Police seized 16kg of drugs including methylamphetamine imported from Mexico, with two men charged facing life in prison if found guilty.

A Missouri judge has overturned the conviction of Christopher Dunn, who has spent more than 30 years in prison for a killing he has long contended he didn’t commit