The Latest Breaking News from Prison

Kyrgyzstan's former president, Almazbek Atambayev, has been released from prison for medical treatment abroad, an ally said on Tuesday, as his case was sent for a review.

Six-time Paralympic gold medallist Oscar Pistorius shot girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, 29, dead at his home in Pretoria, South Africa, on Valentine's Day 2013 - with him later being sentenced to 13 years in prison for her murder

The trial of hundreds of alleged rebels accused of assassinating former Chadian president Idriss Déby Itno has got underway in a special court located at a prison outside the capital, N'Djaména. It is the latest mass trial instigated by the transitional government, which has faced opposition from protesters and from…

A man who has spent most of his adult life in prison has been sentenced to another 21 months behind bars after he kidnapped a woman in Moe in Victoria's east in 2021.

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Brian Nichols on Monday put fresh pressure on Nicaragua to release an anti-government bishop condemned last week to a 26-year prison sentence.

Christopher James Finn is in urgent need of mental health treatment in prison after suffering complex post traumatic stress disorder as a soldier, a judge says.

Records from Las Vegas described suspect Weng Sor, 62, as having ‘an unknown type [of] mental illness’

Israel's military on Monday sentenced a soldier who was filmed assaulting a Palestinian near an army post in the occupied West Bank to 10 days in prison and suspended him from combat duty.

There were 100 assaults on staff in the last reporting year at Wetherby Young Offenders Institution, as inspectors warn violence has increased