The Latest Breaking News from Prison

Neo-Nazi Robert Ewing – who a judge described as ‘evil incarnate’ when sentencing him to life in prison – refused to tell police where he and accomplice Gareth Dewhurst disposed of Paige Chivers' body

Federal grants are rebooting higher education behind bars, but the benefits aren't evenly distributed to all of the incarcerated.

Global spotlight on host country has heightened scrutiny of human rights record, with Biden due to meet Sisi

Egyptian prison authorities have intervened medically with imprisoned pro-democracy activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah, who this week escalated his hunger strike and stopped drinking water, his family said Thursday, demanding his release. The drama surrounding his fate is coinciding with Egypt’s hosting of the U.N. climate summit.

Driver sentenced to eight months in prison

Maria Alyokhina was sent to a penal colony as a member of the feminist punk collective. Authorities "teach you how to forget your right to choose," she says. She urges Griner "to not forget yourself."

Egyptian authorities were forced to intervene as jailed British-Egyptian pro-democracy activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah continued his hunger strike, his mother said.

He is often referred to as the ’most violent prisoner in Britain’

Two men were seen running from the staff car park

Steven Craig will have served a minimum of 34 years in prison for the attack

Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s family fear prison officials in Egypt have force-fed him, which they say would amount to torture.