The Latest Breaking News from Prison

Prisoners in police cells often have less access to healthcare and less chance of being visited by family and lawyers

Rape, as a crime, is widely deplored. Society and media condemn rapists, and rape and other sexually-related crimes carry potentially heavy prison sentences when perpetrators are convicted. So why, given this apparent intolerance for rape, do criminologists like me (and many others) still say that we live in a “rape…

California father Jake Haro has been jailed for life after murdering his seven-month-old son Emmanuel and staging a fake kidnapping to hide the horrific crime.

Former NBA player Sebastian Telfair's viral prison meeting with Diddy reignites backlash over his disturbing VladTV comment about women

Backlash grows after Oklahoma teen Jesse Butler avoids jail for violent sex assaults. New arrest video sparks outrage as victims' families say justice 'failed'.

Cash-strapped people forced to do shameful things because they’re desperate for money? How can this rot be real? If I recreated the idea in my local park, I’d surely end up in prison

Nasser Abu Srour says prisons became like ‘another front’ in Gaza conflict and tells of struggle to adjust to life outside

Brigitte Macron mounted a cyber harassment case against 10 people who claimed France’s first lady is transgender or was born a man. What other cases are there in France?

An inmate who suffered a seizure and later died had been swinging his limbs about and screaming as officers tried to calm him, an inquest has been told.

A Southern California father who killed his 7-month-old son has been sentenced to more than 30 years in prison

Legal resident ‘Subu’ Vedam being held in short-term center after getting murder conviction overturned earlier this year