The Latest Breaking News from Prison

When a female prisoner officer at HMP Channings Wood, went to investigate a prisoner disturbance, 32-year-old Thomas Guest launched a bucket of vomit and faeces over her, getting some in her mouth

A group of winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature have urged world leaders to raise human rights issues as they visit Egypt for the COP27 climate change conference

A 66 year-old man is to be interviewed by officers following the incident

David Coulson, imprisoned in California under ‘tough on crime’ laws from the 90s, was released after decades: ‘Finally someone has heard me’

Alaa Abd El-Fattah has been on hunger strike for six months and will refuse water from 6 November, the first day of the climate summit

‘I think we’ll see a serious breakdown in public order’, warns prison officers’ chief

Three months into hurricane season, anxiety is running high in New Orleans and other at-risk cities. Witnessing the wrath of Hurricane Ian, residents know all too well that their city is not yet out of the woods. There are, however, small signs of relief and progress amid this climate-fueled apprehension…

An American woman who joined ISIS in Syria, leading an all-female military battalion, was sentenced to 20 years in prison by a US court Tuesday. Allison Fluke-Ekren, 42, who grew up on a farm in Kansas, was given the maximum possible sentence by US District Judge Leonie Brinkema after pleading…

Police have been called to one of Victoria's largest prisons after an inmate climbed onto the roof of a building.

ASA rules that UK Facebook ad showing white officer with black prisoner showed an ‘imbalanced power dynamic’

The ad for the Prison Jobs scheme featured an image of a white prison officer talking to a black inmate.