The Latest Breaking News from Prison

Imprisoned former commerce minister Boonsong Teriyapirom followed prison protocol before being given permission to attend his mother's funeral in Chiang Mai, said Wuttichai Jenwiriyakul, director of the Klong Prem Central Prison.

French authorities are investigating death threats against a Russian prisoners' rights activist who says he was the target of an assassination attempt last week at his home in France

A biracial man who says he was fending off a racist attack on a Georgia highway when he fired into a pickup truck and killed a teenage passenger has been sentenced to 10 years in prison

A 42-year-old Kansas man who admitted providing illegal private autopsy services has been sentenced to nearly six years in prison

The death rate for incarcerated people in state and federal prisons from COVID-19 was 20% higher than for the average American.

The 40-year-old was sentenced to 18 months in prison for lying about faked 2016 abduction

Sherri Papini disappeared in 2016, triggering a three-week multi-state search. When she resurfaced, she told authorities an elaborate lie about being abducted and tortured by two Hispanic women.

Saudi Arabia recently sentenced Nourah bint Saeed al-Qahtani to 45 years in prison after she had expressed her views on social media. This comes just a couple of weeks after a Leeds University student, Salma al-Shehab, was sentenced to 34 years in prison for using Twitter to retweet views of…

Calls for changes to bail rules so Māori and those from other low-income communities aren't remanded straight to prison.

BALTIMORE — A day after a Baltimore City judge overturned Adnan Syed’s murder conviction, a new episode of the hit podcast “Serial” that first made his decades-old case famous details the decision to free him.

The report says the inaccuracies "deprived Congress and the American public of information about who is dying in custody and why."