The Latest Breaking News from Prison

Glynn Simmons spent 48 years in an Oklahoma prison for the murder of a liquor store clerk killed during a robbery. But a judge ordered him freed last year, and, in a separate proceeding, declared him to be "actually innocent." His lawyers said detectives withheld a report saying that an…

London judges to decide whether WikiLeaks founder, who could face life in prison in US, has reached end of road in British courts

The watchdog's reporting comes in the wake of several high-profile deaths in federal lockups in recent years, most notably the murder James "Whitey" Bulger and the suicide of Jeffrey Epstein.

Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian far-right extremist convicted of killing 77 people, loses second attempt to sue for alleged human rights breach.

Oscar nominee Cillian Murphy will open Berlin's international film festival Thursday with the world premiere of a drama about Ireland's notorious laundries used as prison camps for "fallen" young women.

A woman claims the NSW prison health system was negligent in the lead-up to the death of her partner, who suffered a fatal asthma attack while behind bars.

A man convicted of murder in western New York has been freed and had his indictment dismissed due to a violation of interstate detainee laws.

Ragesh Gopakumar, one of the eight ex-Indian Navy personnel released by the Qatar government that they survived the prison days only due to their defence training

BA captain Robert Brown beat his wife Joanna Simpson to death with a claw hammer in their family home in October 2010.