The Latest Breaking News from Prison

KATHMANDU: French serial killer Charles Sobhraj, whose string of murders across Asia in the 1970s was portrayed in the Netflix series “The Serpent”, was still awaiting his release from prison Thursday after a Nepali court ordered him freed on health grounds.

Craig McInally has been sentenced to a minimum of two years in prison for deliberately targeting people who were vulnerable and offering to 'assist' in the suicide of a 25-year-old woman.

A Frenchman whose life of seduction, murder and escape on the "hippie trail" during the 1970s became the subject for a hit TV series was due to be freed on Thursday after 19 years in prison in Nepal.

The Iranian Supreme Court ordered a retrial of a protester sentenced to death in early November, according to the judiciary's website, Mizan Online. According to Agence France-Presse, Mahan Sedarat was among 11 people sentenced to death for events related to the protests that have been rocking the country for three…

Watchdogs say Castle Huntly needs to be better used - or its style of rehabilitation spread to other prisons.

Charles Sobhraj, a convicted killer who police suspect was responsible for a string of murders in the 1970s and 1980s, will be freed from prison in Nepal on Friday after nearly 20 years behind bars, a jail official told Reuters on Thursday.

The German tennis star served eight months of a 2 1/2-year sentence.

With record inmate numbers and an exhausted workforce, staff at this outback prison say they feel unsafe, overworked and undervalued.

A confessed French serial killer has been ordered released from prison in Nepal after serving most of his sentence