The Latest Breaking News from Prison

Hoare has seven convictions for rape and other sex offences dating back to 1973

What better final bonding experience than a video game about a prison break before heading off to uni, asks Dominik Diamond

Iorworth Hoare bought a lottery ticket while on day release during a life sentence

Warren G. Harding was a terrible president, but he did get two things right. He freed an ailing Eugene Debs from federal prison, where Debs had been locked up for criticizing World War I, and he appointed Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Los Angeles’ first female public defender, as assistant attorney general…

Iorworth Hoare bought the winning lottery ticket while he was on weekend leave from an open prison and then moved to a luxury property in Northumberland

Crackdown on Hellenes and its Golden Dawn leader Ilias Kasidiaris could cause more problems than it solves

Two men who held a prison officer hostage and tortured him for six hours in the hopes of getting opioids have had their jail time stretched by up to 13 years.

Silver "can’t believe he was convicted" over capital murder of Detective Horkan

From lone actors to whole cast of protesting malcontents, that roof has seen plenty of spectacles, some comedy and even tragedy down the years

The US called on Vietnam to release blogger Nguyen Lan Thang, who was sentenced to six years in prison Wednesday for anti-state activities, ahead of Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s weekend visit for talks in Hanoi.

Linda Gowers, from Kirriemuir, Angus, was told she could have been sent to prison for bundling Michael Graham into a van before strapping him to a chair and binding him with duct tape.