At least 153 people jailed since El Salvador instituted emergency powers in March 2022 to confront the country's powerful street gangs have died in state custody.
The case against a Sydney jeweller accused of staging an armed robbery at his own store for a fraudulent insurance claim is going to "fall apart" when police dig into it, his lawyer says.
Antonio David Mene allegedly fled Palen Creek Correctional Centre in Rathdowney, about 70km west of the Gold Coast, with two other prisoners on Sunday.
Antonio David Mene allegedly fled Palen Creek Correctional Centre in Rathdowney, about 70km west of the Gold Coast, with two other prisoners on Sunday.
A coroner has pointed to a "litany of failings and shortcomings" in the management and care of an Indigenous man who died after an altercation with prison officers while in custody in South Australia.
The chaos was sparked when two detainees at Casuarina Prison allegedly struck an officer in the head with a makeshift weapon, before stealing her keys.
In December 2020, two prisoners detained at the Mid North Coast Correctional Centre ambushed a guard, beating, stabbing and holding him as ransom for opioids.
Extrajudicial executions, rape, forced abortions, jail without trial, torture, starvation rations that leave prisoners so hungry some turn to eating insects.
A 72-year-old American imprisoned more than a year in Saudi Arabia over tweets he made has been freed from jail, but it's not clear whether a travel ban will be dropped to allow him to return home to Florida.
Idaho is poised to allow firing squads to execute condemned inmates when the state can't get lethal-injection drugs, under a bill the Legislature passed today with a veto-proof majority.
A photo of another person with the same name led to the wrongful arrest of a New York City man who was exonerated and freed after spending more than 18 years behind bars for murder.
The man was found dead in his prison cell days after details of how he lured a nine-year-old girl from a Perth park and assaulted her were read out in court.
A man whose bones were discovered buried in a Sydney construction yard 16 years ago has been revealed as yet another victim of notorious gangland figure Arthur 'Neddy' Smith.
Drug kingpin Tony Mokbel has been transferred to a Melbourne hospital after he was rushed out of Barwon Prison yesterday evening with a suspected blood clot.
The Melbourne drug kingpin is continuing to suffer the effects of a traumatic brain injury after he was set upon by two 21-year-old prisoners at Barwon near Geelong four years ago.
From digging tunnels, to handmaking keys, to losing weight to fit through slight gaps, we've been taken a look at some of the most notable prison escapes in history.
Darko Desic escaped from Grafton jail in 1992 after being convicted of cannabis cultivation two years earlier but turned himself into police last year.
Confessed French serial killer Charles Sobhraj, who was convicted and sentenced to life in prison in Nepal, has been ordered to be released because of poor health, good behavior and having already served most of his sentence.
A man convicted in the killings of eight members of an Ohio family was sentenced on Monday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for his role in what one surviving relative called a "monstrous act" of mass murder.
An Australian man and former US military pilot who has been held in a prison in New South Wales at the request of the FBI is the victim of a geopolitical dispute, his wife says.
Bout, who was released in a prisoner swap for US basketball star Brittney Griner, has made controversial remarks in a video interview with Kremlin-controlled TV network RT.
A man who was freed in 2015 after spending a quarter-century in prison for an infamous tourist killing will receive nearly $26 million in legal settlements.
Reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms after being convicted earlier this year on charges including bank fraud and tax evasion.
Disclose alleges that at least ten of IKEA's subcontractors in Belarus "had ties with penal colonies over the past 10 years," according to accounting records and witness interviews, including with former detainees.
A man behind bars for murdering a mathematician found at the bottom of cliffs at Manly in 1988 will likely face trial after a court allowed him to reverse a surprise guilty plea.