The Latest Breaking News from Prison

United Nations experts on Friday urged Iran to release a prominent rights activist with a life-threatening illness and expressed concerns over the fate of scores arbitrarily detained during nationwide protests. Arash Sadeghi, who has been in and out of prison since 2009, was arrested again on Oct. 20 “for unknown…

A Rush and a Push and the Land Is Ours - Manchester Council Strangeways prison out of city

Elizabeth Holmes appealed her criminal fraud conviction, two weeks after she was ordered to serve 11 1/4 years in prison for deceiving investors in her blood-testing startup Theranos Inc.

Lawyers for a man who was freed in 2015 after spending a quarter-century in prison for an infamous tourist killing says he will receive nearly $18 million in legal settlements from the city and state of New York

9/11 compensation bill tangled up in Beirut victims’ push

Cuba enacted a new penal code this week that activists and human rights organizations worry could further limit free expression and snuff out protests at a time of deepening discontent on the island

Ye criticized Trump and said he should have freed the Jan. 6 prisoners when he “had the chance”

OAKLAND, Calif. — Jurors no longer have to wonder how Ray J. Garcia will explain the nude photo of an incarcerated woman, on all fours inside her cell, that allegedly shows a reflection of his face holding the camera.

Paul Whelan’s brother has confirmed the American, convicted on espionage charges, gave ‘proof of life’ in phone call.

The robbery plan started to go awry when Shay Hollis struggled with the weight of the motorbike

Thousands of prisoners still serving indefinite sentences in England and Wales, even for low-level crime