The Latest Breaking News from Prison

Court of Appeal told the way Couzens hunted down and killed his victim was a ‘fundamental attack on our way of life’

In May, five judges heard challenges to or appeals against the prison sentences of five convicted killers including former cop Wayne Couzens and double murderer Ian Stewart

A Spanish prosecutor is seeking a prison term of eight years for Colombian superstar Shakira over a 14.5 million-euro tax fraud case, a prosecutor's office document showed on Friday.

Russia's defence ministry said Ukraine struck a prison in separatist-held territory with U.S.-made HIMARS rockets on Friday, killing 40 Ukrainian prisoners of war and leaving 75 wounded, Russian news agencies reported on Friday.

Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine say that at least 40 Ukrainian prisoners of war captured during the fighting for Mariupol have been killed by Ukrainian shelling

Thailand’s prison overcrowding is one of the most severe problems deteriorating its justice system and prisoners’ wellbeing. Meanwhile, the emergence of Covid-19 in Thailand and worldwide reverberates the concerns and sparks the need for the country’s justice system that should be less dependent on detention and imprisonment and must seek…

Egypt plans to launch a national political dialogue in the coming weeks, a test of whether authorities are prepared to ease a crackdown on dissent that critics say is the most severe in the country's recent history.

After nine years of sweeping crackdowns on dissent, Egypt is set to launch a carefully choreographed political dialogue, but the main Islamist opposition movement is excluded and critics say a parallel move to release prisoners is proceeding too slowly.

Robert Saxon was jailed at Liverpool Crown Court on Thursday

More than 70 political prisoners are on death row and analysts fear a desperate military regime could step up killings.

Emma Johnson "fell in love" with inmate Marcus Solomon at HMP Sudbury and began selling mobile phones via him in the jail in a racket that saw her earn thousands of pounds