The Latest Breaking News from Prison

Karim Younis, 66, has been released from Israeli prisons after serving 40 years for the killing of an Israeli soldier.

William Ludlow's family have criticised the length of Andrew Stinchcomb's prison sentence

University admissions consultant Rick Singer receives three and a half years in prison for masterminding bribery scheme.

A former Bolivian interior minister has been sentenced in the United States to nearly six years in prison for taking at least $532,000 in bribes to help a Florida company win a lucrative contract to sell tear gas to his country's government

Iran released a prominent actress from an Oscar-winning film on Wednesday, nearly three weeks after she was jailed for criticizing a crackdown on anti-government protests, local reports said. Iran’s semi-official ISNA news agency said Taraneh Alidoosti, the 38-year-old star of Asghar Farhadi’s Oscar-winning “The Salesman,” was released on bail. Her…

The actor’s arrest for supporting anti-government protests prompted shock across the country

The violent prison break that killed 17 people _ mostly guards _ and resulted in the escape of 30 inmates has revealed a shocking level of self-rule by prisoners inside the troubled prison in the northern Mexico border city of Ciudad Juarez

The Missouri prisoner was put to death for a 2003 killing

As she enters her 14th year in jail in Iran, Maryam Akbari Monfared has shared a letter while also celebrating the protests that have spread throughout Iran while she has been incarcerated