The Latest Breaking News from Prison

An ex-convict who obtained millions of dollars by subjecting his daughter's ex-college roommates to forced labor and prostitution has been sentenced to 60 years in prison

Serial killer Robert Maudsley, now 69, has been locked away in a glass prison cell since 1979 after he was sent down for murder

Robert Mawdsley has been in solitary confinement since 1979 and is Britain's longest serving prisoner, having been caged for 47 years for the murder of four men in the 1970s

Larry Ray convicted in April of sex trafficking and racketeering stemming from abuse of young women at Sarah Lawrence College

Exclusive: Australia is alone among democracies who have not ratified UN provision enabling legal remedy for someone wrongfully convicted or imprisoned

A Supreme Court report on the leak of a draft opinion renewed an effort to criminalize leaking information from the high court.

Judge gives detectives more time to investigate claims of rape and trafficking

The former employee faces up to 100 years in prison for multiple charges.

Chicago psychologist Alan Friedman is among experts who reviewed a 1997 prison exam and are challenging the belief that Manson was schizophrenic. Manson was convicted of orchestrating the 1969 killings of actress Sharon Tate and six others in Los Angeles.

A court in northern France has sentenced 14 Sri Lankan nationals to prison for operating a people-smuggling ring across Europe – part of a continent-wide attempt to crack down on the lucrative criminal networks.

A former Algerian energy minister was sentenced in absentia Thursday to 20 years in prison for corruption. Chakib Khelil headed the energy ministry for a decade under the late president Abdelaziz Bouteflika. The Sidi M’Hamed court in Algiers also issued on Thursday prison terms of between five and 10 years…