The Latest Breaking News from Prison

He spent 19 years in jail in Nepal for two murders in 1975 and was freed given his age and for good behaviour.

Ana Belén Montes, the convicted Cuba spy who is set to be released from prison in January, was willing to pass military secrets about the U.S. war in Afghanistan if requested by her spymasters in Havana, even if that resulted in the death of American soldiers on the ground, she…

Rio Gregory, 18, was given a suspended prison sentence for causing actual bodily harm to a police officer

Charles Sobhraj, a convicted killer who police say is responsible for a string of murders in the 1970s and 1980s, was released from a Nepal prison on Friday after nearly two decades behind bars.

Parcel delivery has soared to new heights with a drone carrying drugs to inmates worth $250,000 crashing in a Townsville jail.

Patrolling officers discovered the crashed drone and a package of drugs on the prison grounds last month.

The University of California, San Francisco has issued a public apology after conducting an investigation into experiments performed by two faculty members in the 1960s and '70s on prisoners, some of whom were mentally ill. In many cases, there was no record that the prisoners had provided informed consent.

Adnan Syed, who was released from a Maryland prison this year after his case was the focus of the true-crime podcast “Serial,” has been hired by Georgetown University as a program associate for the university’s Prisons and Justice Initiative

A night or two in jail could lead to job loss and the main source of income for affected families. Survivors may drop charges if they feel that their abuser may be sent to prison.