The Latest Breaking News from Prison

Families of prisoners held for years in Syrian jails are closely watching the implementation of the presidential decree giving a general amnesty to people convicted on terrorism charges. The amnesty excludes acts that have led to killings. Families from the Syrian opposition are weary that the exclusion could mean that…

The court heard Miriam Heale has suffered a number of traumas in her life including seeing her brother sentenced to life in prison for murder when she was a teenager

Emma Tustin is currently serving a life sentence at HMP Peterborough in Cambridgeshire after being charged with manslaughter.

Prison doctor Sean Runacres says he did not recall assessing Veronica Nelson and labels a nurse present at the examination as "a liar".

Jonathan Wignall is due to be out of prison later this year but ITV presenter Ruth says she won't let him ruin her new life

Florida Department of Corrections employees Ronald Connor, Christopher Rolon, and Kirk Walton have been charged with second-degree murder, aggravated abuse of an elderly or disabled adult, and battery/cruel treatment of a detainee in the beating death of inmate Ronald Gene Ingram. Ingram was being transferred from Dade Correctional Institution, where…

An increase in the scale of prison and labor camps in North Korea suggests more people are falling foul of the regime’s rules on deviation from the socialist norm, analysts say.

Staff at the Alice Springs Correctional Centre open up about chronic burnout, bed shortages and family breakdowns during a 12-hour work stoppage in protest of the NT government's proposed four-year wage freeze.

Other inmates say Casey White was ‘getting extra food on his trays’ from the corrections officer