The Latest Breaking News from Prison

Authorities are searching for two men who absconded from a correctional centre in Townsville on Sunday.

Overcrowding, lack of food, disease ... In September alone, 14 inmates died in the main prison in Goma, the capital of North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Images of inmates crammed into tents and photos of bodies being removed leaked onto social networks in mid-October. Our Observers told…

Asylum seekers share fears about Dorset barge becoming even more crowded, saying they already ‘despair and wish for death’

COIMBATORE: A convict prisoner, who was working at the fuel station run by the Prisons Department on Bharathiyar Road in Coimbatore city, managed to escape around 5.30 am. The city police have formed two teams to trace him.

COIMBATORE: A convicted prisoner, who was working at the fuel station run by the Prisons Department on Bharathiyar Road in Coimbatore city, managed to escape around 5.30 am. The city police have formed two teams to trace him.

As California prosecutes a prison guard on nearly 100 charges, survivors behind bars say officer abuse is so widespread it feels inescapable

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Anthony Albanese says America needs to end its prosecution of Julian Assange, as the Wikileaks founder remains in a UK prison, fighting extradition to the US.

Two former New York City jail guards won’t serve any prison time in connection with a teenage inmate’s suicide attempt in 2019

A Missouri prosecutor has dropped and refiled the murder case against Pamela Hupp, a killing that inspired a TV miniseries

California officials say an inmate accused of attacking Paul Flores this summer, shortly after Flores reported to prison to serve his conviction for murdering college student Kristin Smart, strangled his own serial killer cellmate two years ago