The Latest Breaking News from Prison

In “Where God is Not”, Iranian filmmaker Mehran Tamadon´s unflinching account of the torture of former political prisoners in Iran, the director asks his interviewees to relive the horrors of their incarceration. The film – which opened at the Berlin International Film Festival on Saturday as part of a Tamadon…

A man convicted of gunning down rapper Nipsey Hussle is expected to get life in prison when he's sentenced Wednesday in a Los Angeles courtroom

A man with alleged ties to a California prison gang has pleaded not guilty to killing six people, including a teenage mother and her baby, last month at a central California home connected to a rival gang

The Biden administration is planning to reverse longstanding policy and allow the use of Medicaid to treat jail and prison inmates' substance use disorders and certain other health conditions

Inmate said he failed to return after racking up cocaine debt and being pressured into becoming smuggler

Graphic videos filed in a Tennessee court show a death row inmate who has just returned from the hospital repeatedly telling officers that he is in pain as they strap him so tightly to a bed that his arms turn purple

The seven-time All-Star missed last season while imprisoned in Russia for more than nine months.

Advocacy groups say ‘common sense’ bill would help protect incarcerated people’s right to religious freedom, expression.

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Reece Hislop was sent to prison

The Court of Criminal Appeal in Edinburgh rejected Christopher Hughes' appeal against conviction for his part in the execution of Martin Kok in the Netherlands.