The Latest Breaking News from Prison

Weatherford, Oklahoma, police officer Jeremy Anderson has been charged with neglect to perform a duty and larceny after being arrested for stealing 99 fentanyl pills from the police department's evidence room. He faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted. The suspect originally arrested with the pills was charged…

Vicious Matthew Grady was sentenced at Hamilton Sheriff Court last week for the attack on John Hardie amid claims he was being threatened by the thug currently serving 20 years for plotting to murder Steven 'Bonzo' Daniel.

A sex offender has been sentenced to four years' jail after being caught with child exploitation material just months following his release from prison.

The man who killed four people during a shooting spree through Darwin in 2019 has today faced Darwin Local Court on an unrelated aggravated assault charge allegedly involving a fellow prisoner.

Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that names of deceased people are included in this article.

‘We are truly heartbroken for this person’s family and loved ones and we wish to express our deepest condolences’ commissioner says

There have been many jailbreaks in the long history of Glasgow’s HMP Barlinnie over the years, but few quite so bold as the time a prisoner escaped wearing the Governor’s breeks.

Jail sentences are handed out to some of the worst offenders each week. Here are some of the newest prisoners from the region

Lindsay Sandiford, 65, is hauled up inside the infamous Kerobokan prison in Indonesia, where if prisoners are facing the death penalty and survive the firing squad, the commander must shoot the prisoner in the head.

Khalid Baker, who spent 13 years in prison, is arguing an acquitted co-accused was responsible for death at party in 2005

The escape of killer-for-hire Casey Cole White has gripped the US with the scandal unfolding to reveal many twists and turns about the escaped inmate and the high-ranking prison officer, Vicky White, who sprung him from jail on her last day before retirement