The Latest Breaking News from Prison

Deanna "Violet" Maree Coco, who was sentenced to at least eight months in prison for her role in a climate protest on the Sydney Harbour Bridge in April, has been granted bail pending an appeal.

An alleged former Libyan intelligence agent accused of making the bomb that blew up a Pan Am jet over Scotland in 1988, killing 270 people, appeared in a US court Monday to face charges for the deadliest-ever terror attack in Britain. Abu Agila Mohammad Masud Kheir al-Marimi, who allegedly worked…

New York City is naming a gate in Central Park in honor of the five men who, as teenagers, were wrongfully convicted of the 1989 rape of a jogger and spent years in prison before being exonerated

‘We live in a racist world, I believe, and prison reflects the outside world,’ one Black staff member said

Senior staff tell HM Inspectorate of Prisons the initiative could begin immediately, after report highlights deep divisions

David Norris was transferred from Category C Dartmoor to Category B Exeter after he sent selfies and WhatsApp messages from his cell. He was caught with a mobile phone in prison twice

HMP Bristol has confirmed the report of an anonymous source which claimed that A and G wings at Horfield prison have been without heating and hot water for nearly three weeks.

A Tennessee judge has put on hold a case from a death row inmate alleging mistreatment by prison officials

‘This is just a moment I’ve always been waiting for. And I’ve been fighting for over 28 years’