The Latest Breaking News from Prison

A review of laws enabling the detention of terrorists after they have served their prison sentences is recommending the power be scrapped.

A Russian man who was sentenced to two years in prison for discrediting the army and had his daughter taken from him has been detained in Belarus after fleeing house arrest, a lawyer said on Thursday.

The man who inspired the film ‘Hotel Rwanda’, Paul Rusesabagina, arrived in the United States after being released from prison in Rwanda last week.

Morocco’s General Delegation for Prison Administration denied on Tuesday recent claims by Amnesty International regarding torture and human rights violations against a prisoner detained in connection with the Gdim Izik Incidents. The country’s prison authority said in a statement that the prisoner, detained at the local prison of Tiflet 2…

The parish volunteer who started a fire that severely damaged the 15th Century Gothic cathedral in the western French city of Nantes in 2020 has been sentenced to four years in prison for arson.

US secretary of state criticises Russia’s arrest of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich

Police charge a 42-year-old prisoner with murder over the death of Ashley Bropho in Hakea Prison earlier this month.

A sentenced prisoner will face a Perth court charged with the murder of convicted child sex offender Ashley Bropho at Hakea Prison.

Dubbed Britain's most notorious inmate, Charles Bronson is facing another parole hearing in a bid for freedom and claims he has "never been a danger to the public"

Russia’s prosecution of a single father whose daughter drew an antiwar sketch at school elicited outrage from the European Union, even as the man, who fled house arrest before the verdict was announced, remained at large

Notorious inmate claims he ‘hates violence’ and is a changed man ahead of parole board decision