The Latest Breaking News from Prison

CHICAGO — Beer was flowing, the band was playing, people danced and in the audience sat a former governor of Illinois at a table with his wife, ready to rock ’n’ roll.

The judge said: "Given the current state of prisons and the overcrowding, I am going to suspend that sentence"

LOS ANGELES — Jim Gordon, the prolific session drummer who played with some of rock’s biggest stars — including the Beach Boys, several Beatles and Eric Clapton, whose classic “Layla” he’s credited with co-writing — before he was sentenced to prison for killing his mother, died Monday at the state-run…

A lawyer for a truck driver found guilty of dangerous driving causing death says his client is in isolation in a women's prison for 23 hours a day because her transition is not yet complete.

Tomas Yarrington Ruvalcaba, ex-governor of Tamaulipas, is accused of using $3.5m in bribes to buy property in the US.

A former Wells Fargo Bank executive accused of overseeing a ruse that created millions of bogus customer accounts has agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges likely to send her prison for her role in the scandal

El Salvador's government has sent 2,000 more suspects to a new prison built especially for gang members, and the justice minister vows that “they will never return” to the streets

The troubled son of imprisoned Oklahoma City bombing co-conspirator Terry Nichols has pleaded guilty in Las Vegas to kidnapping and armed robbery in a case that will get him at least five years in a Nevada prison

Infamous ‘Tiger King’ star is currently serving a 21-year prison sentence

Joe Exotic, who rose to fame in the 2020 Netflix documentary Tiger King, wants to be the next president of America, he announced as he serves a 21 year prison sentence

Kyle Chrisley, the son of imprisoned reality TV star Todd Chrisley, is facing legal issues of his own.