The Latest Breaking News from Prison

The site of a former prison and thousands of hectares of rural land have been sold for $1 in a symbolic deal hoped to boost services for women struggling with addiction.

The jailed brother of Algeria's late president Abdelaziz Bouteflika received an eight-year prison sentence on Monday for corruption, local media reported. Said Bouteflika's co-defendant, construction tycoon Ali Haddad who is also already in prison on other charges, was sentenced to four years, and both received fines. They had been charged…

The union representing prison officers - and a range of other workers considered by many to have been on the front line at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic - says the NSW government should also give one-off payments, like those promised to health workers this week, to employees in…

A senior South Australian prison guard is ordered to stand trial accused of child sex offences.

A former Air Force staff sergeant and alleged member of an alt-right anti-government movement was sentenced to 41 years in prison for a fatal drive-by shooting outside a federal courthouse in Oakland in 2020.

Lopez, a convicted murderer, escaped from authorities last month while on a prison transport bus.

Plea rejected citing certain prison offences committed by Murugan

Workshops and classrooms remain empty and inmates inactive as prisons ‘do not have staff to run properly’

Lawyers have revealed a potential defense for an Alabama prisoner who walked out of jail with a corrections official, prompting an intensive manhunt

Lauren Blaney avoided prison once but was jailed today

TikTok commenter reveals evidence showing suspect’s previous conviction and true identity