The Latest Breaking News from Prison

Survey finds 43 per cent of prison officers in England and Wales plan to leave

A half of staff do not feel safe at work, according to a survey.

Concerned with the suicides in prisons, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on June 23 issued an Advisory to the Centre, States and UTs to take immediate measures to check the same. Jail authorities were asked to do regular check on bed sheets and blankets of inmates to ensure that…

An intruder from Bangladesh, Samrat Monto Biswas, who had served a prison term following his arrest by the Krishna district police in 2013, has been staying in the police station since his release eight years ago

A military official has confirmed that eight soldiers have been detained and taken to a military prison for their possible involvement in events surrounding the 2014 disappearance of 43 students from a rural teacher's college in southern Mexico

Paul Bernardo is one of Canada’s most notorious criminal offenders.

Fear simmered among the small knot of relatives gathered for the wake of a mother and daughter who were among 46 women inmates slaughtered in this week's prison riot in Honduras

The Supreme Court was wrong to deny relief to a man imprisoned for activity that Court's own rulings indicate was not illegal - one who never had an opportunity to challenge his incarceration on that basis.

A suspect in a crash that killed five young women in Minneapolis has been charged with 10 state counts of criminal vehicular homicide as well as federal firearms and drug charges

A federal court has sentenced Brazilian engineer Mário Marcelo Santoro to 27 years in prison after he confessed to the murder of his ex-girlfriend Cecília Haddad in Australia

James Robert Elliott claims he was “filled with frustration, at the government, at Trump, at law-enforcement and also at myself” in the days after the riot.