The Latest Breaking News from Prison

Alexei Navalny practically predicted this. Russia’s foremost opposition leader and fierce critic of Vladimir Putin, who was serving a 19-year prison sentence on a range of charges he called politically motivated, said in a 2022 documentary that “if they decide to kill me, it means that we are incredibly strong”.

Boxer tells the Guardian it’s time for president to grant clemency to those in prison and ‘end cannabis prohibition once and for all’

More than a quarter century after an inmate helped start a hospice program in one of the nation's most notorious prisons, he is trying to spread the idea.

The mother of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is being refused access to his body for a third day, his team said on Monday as his widow prepared to meet European foreign ministers.

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell Monday pledged that Russian President Vladimir Putin would be held to account for Alexei Navalny's death after he met the opposition leader and Kremlin foe's widow.

He would have made a good president, but the Russia in which that could have happened no longer exists, says novelist Mikhail Shishkin

Moscow-installed governors of Kherson and Luhansk regions both survive claimed attack; Russia launching multiple attacks near Robotyne

The Senate passed the controversial foreign aid bill last week, and Schumer believes Navalny's death in prison is an "urgent alarm bell" for the House to pass the bipartisan bill.

A man's "noble efforts" in tackling his own drug problems mean he will not be imprisoned over an meth-induced fiery triple car crash on Sydney's Harbour Bridge.

Russian courts have sentenced dozens of people detained at events commemorating Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to short prison sentences, official court announcements showed, with 154 sentenced in Saint Petersburg alone.

Outrage over jailed opposition leader’s death grows with detention of over 350 people in Russia who attended vigils