The Latest Breaking News from Prison

Rian Hood, 31, was sentenced to seven years and six months imprisonment at the High Court in Glasgow.

This time last year 68-year-old British-Iranian, Anoosheh Ashoori, was dreaming of being able to run freely in London parks while in his cell at the notorious Evin prison in Iran. On 17 August 2017, Ashoori was arrested by Iranian authorities on spying charges, which he has always denied. He was…

A military court in Myanmar has sentenced Nang Mwe San to six years in prison after find her guilty of posting nude photos and videos on OnlyFans and other sites. More than 15,600 people have been arrested since a coup by the military in February 2021.

The 70-year-old faces more than eight years in jail if convicted

The chief of the prison service in Indian Kashmir has been murdered, police said on Tuesday, as the powerful interior minister visited the disputed Himalayan region that has been riven by a decades-long insurgency.

At least 15 prisoners were killed in a prison in the Ecuadorean city of Latacunga on Monday, Ecuador's SNAI prison agency said, and another 21 were injured in the latest incident of deadly jail violence in the Andean country.

A man who stabbed a 17-year-old to death after a party in Waikiki, south of Perth, is sentenced to a minimum of 19 years in prison, as the victim's mother tells the court her family will never forgive him.

A clash between inmates armed with guns and knives inside the Latacunga prison in central Ecuador on Monday left at least 15 people dead and 20 injured, authorities said.

Maine, Vermont, and Washington, DC allow those in prison to vote.