The Latest Breaking News from Prison

Editorial: Overcrowded jails serve no one’s interests, and policymaking appears damagingly stuck

Four MPs agreed funding one of the big issues facing New Zealand’s growing infrastructure deficit – but passionately begged to differ on the solution

The United States and Iran have reached a tentative agreement that will eventually set free five detained Americans in Iran and an unknown number of Iranians imprisoned in the U.S. after billions of dollars in frozen Iranian assets are transferred from banks in South Korea to Qatar

Texas prosecutors say a man who was convicted of killing a child in the 1980s and then run of of towns following his early release from prison has been indicted on two new murder charges

The UK government is taking a harsher approach to tackle criminal activity which is blighting local neighbourhoods. And recently, government ministers have been talking tough about repeat shoplifting, including the possibility of introducing new laws which would see prolific shoplifters imprisoned. This has all been against a backdrop of concern…

Our country is locked in a spiral of killing and violence. We can end this narco nightmare, but the omens are not good, warns academic Jorge Núñez

The Canadian rapper Tory Lanez who was recently given a ten-year prison term for shooting fellow artist Megan Thee Stallion in the foot said he will not apologise, TMZ reported. Read further on Dynamite News:

The seven-months-pregnant officer reported contraction-like pains at work, but said she wasn’t allowed to leave for hours. The anti-abortion state is fighting her lawsuit, in part by saying her fetus didn’t clearly have rights.

The Constitutional Court order relating to a case involving former President Jacob Zuma has illuminated some of the flaws in the law governing medical parole in South Africa. This is despite amendments in 2012 to ensure equality before the law, uphold offenders’ rights to dignity and healthcare when they suffer…

After a self-imposed break brought on by fatherhood and the death of a number of close friends, he’s back, and he’s got things to say

Former South African President Jacob Zuma was briefly taken to prison and released to correctional supervision