The Latest Breaking News from Prison

Patricia Hewitt kicked and hit the victims on the same day she was given a community order for attacking a constable and just months after serving a prison sentence for assaulting another

Attorney General Merrick Garland has sworn in the new director of the federal Bureau of Prisons, as the Biden administration looks to reform the beleaguered agency

New York state prison authorities have lifted a ban on a book about the 1971 Attica uprising following a First Amendment lawsuit

Senators allege Bureau of Prisons officials turned a blind eye to rapidly deteriorating conditions at the U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta.

“It's a lot of money. I have no idea how they are getting away with this. The whole block stinks and there is rubbish everywhere.”

Israeli President Isaac Herzog called on Tuesday for an investigation into allegations of sexual abuse of female guards by prisoners at a maximum security prison with the encouragement of their superiors.

Russia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday declared Ukraine’s Azov Regiment a terrorist organization, a designation that could lead to terror charges against some of the captured fighters who made their last stand inside Mariupol's shattered steel plant. Russia and its rebel allies are holding an estimated 1,000 Azov fighters prisoner, many…

Ukrainian officials say they are struggling to establish the truth surrounding an explosion that killed dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war captured by the Russians following the fall of Mariupol

Alicia Sowerby, from York, described her accommodation as 'horrendous' and 'like a prison' despite paying hefty rent fees every month

Lawrence 'Larry' Rudolph, 67 - convicted of killing his wife of 34 years Bianca Rudolf - faces the death penalty or life in prison after Monday's verdict.

Police said Dena Thompson targeted men ‘sexually, financially and physically for a decade’