The Latest Breaking News from Prison

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — San Quentin State Prison was once known as “The Bastille by The Bay,” an enormous facility overlooking San Francisco Bay that housed the nation’s largest death row and was built in 1852, making it California’s oldest prison.

The two sides in Yemen's conflict have agreed to free nearly 900 people in a prisoner exchange. That deal comes less than two weeks after Saudi Arabia and Iran re-established diplomatic ties after years of hostility. The two regional powers have backed opposing sides in Yemen's war, and their rapprochement…

Damien McCann was caged for repeatedly raping a girl, starting when she was aged 10, as his vile wife filmed the abuse. His attacker, Damian Fowler, was previously told by a judge that he has "psychotic traits"

Damien McCann, whose wife filmed him raping a young girl, was permanently disfigured after attack by inmate at Saughton Prison.

One participant started using drugs at 16, was trafficking by 21 and has been in and out of jail for much of her adult life. Now, she's using construction skills she learnt while incarcerated to build herself a better future.

A judge reduced the prison sentence from 55 to 30 years for an Alabama man convicted of murder when a police officer shot his friend

Taoiseach says any response to cases like the Isla Bryson one in Scotland would be dealt with 'in a similar way'

The Irish Prison Service said that it is currently drafting a policy on transgender prisoners.

The family of Indigenous woman Veronica Nelson, who died in custody in 2020, says Victoria's bail law reforms should be named in her honour.

A Missouri man who told a federal judge that “I take full responsibility” for breaching the Capitol in the early minutes of the Jan. 6 riot was sentenced Tuesday to 14 days in prison and fined $500.

Since the Standing Rock protests in 2017, 19 states have passed so-called critical infrastructure laws