The Latest Breaking News from Prison

Rachel Mason is campaigning for a review of the prison sentence handed to Steven Allan after he killed her brother in an unprovoked attack in the West End

Kim Potter, Minnesota officer who mistook gun for Taser and killed Wright in 2021, is freed after 16 months in prison.

Helen Redfern had been told to expect jail time, but Judge Silas Reid took into account her caring responsibilities and handed down a suspended sentence instead

A court in Kazakhstan on Monday sentenced the former head of the country's state security body to 18 years in prison over his role in violent unrest and an attempted coup that took place in January 2022.

Gangland killer Freddie Thompson watched his mother’s funeral from prison – after he was refused permission to attend it in person

Damian Rzeszowki was found hanging in his cell seven years after killing six people.

Jason Walker has been reporting from inside his cell at great risk to his personal safety.

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was arrested in Russia on March 29 and remains behind bars. He could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted of spying. Some 300 former correspondents in Russia, from 22 different countries, have written an open letter to the Kremlin in English…

Kim Potter, the Minnesota police officer who mistook her gun for a Taser and killed Daunte Wright in 2021, was released from prison early Monday

The white Brooklyn Center police officer was sentenced to two years in prison for fatally shooting Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, when she mistook her gun for a Taser during a traffic stop

Minnesota police officer Kim Potter shot and killed Daunte Wright in 2021 when she mistakenly thought her gun was a Taser - she has been released from prison after just 16 months