The Latest Breaking News from Prison

North Carolina Republicans requested justices issue after following dispute over electoral maps. Plus, Brittney Griner’s triumphant return to the WNBA

Since a heat wave gripped Texas, at least nine inmates, including two men in their 30s, have died of heart attacks or unknown causes in prisons lacking air conditioning. It’s been 11 years since the state last classified a death as heat-related.

Chef Mark Ellis, who found fame on BBC cooking show the Great British Menu, faced two years in jail after a probe into his Allium Bar and Grill restaurant in Tattenhall, Cheshire

Many feared the Mercury star would struggle on court after her time in Russian prison. But she has already been named in the league’s All-Star team

The rebellion ended as quickly as it began. Less than a day after Wagner Group mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin led thousands of his men into Russia and made a beeline toward Moscow, he called it off and pulled them back. In a deal brokered by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, Prigozhin…

Pervert Peter Gill has been given a further suspended sentence, despite also being given one in 2017 for similar offending

A court in Thailand has acquitted a student activist and four other people of impeding the motorcade of the country’s queen during pro-democracy demonstrations in 2020, an offense that could have seen them sentenced to 16 years in prison or even the death penalty

A California man is going to prison for running a cow dung-to-green energy scheme that authorities say was a load of manure

Observers say that a crackdown in Honduras on gangs in the nation’s prisons is eerily similar to one carried out last year in neighboring El Salvador by President Nayib Bukele

Prison officials and guards made numerous errors in overseeing Jeffrey Epstein when he was in federal custody, and tried to falsify records to cover their tracks, but the watchdog for the U.S. Department of Justice found no evidence to suggest that Epstein’s death on Aug. 10, 2019, was anything other…

Hope Street scheme in Southampton aims to keep women in criminal justice system out of jail and with their children