Prisoner

A surge in adult and youth prisoners is costing taxpayers a historic amount, prompting claims from reform groups that the system is failing.

The conviction is the latest in what rights groups say is the government's attempt to silence voices critical of the ruling Vietnamese Communist Party.

He was seized in West Africa by al-Qaeda-affiliated militants in 2016.

Inmates can remove a window to climb out and retrieve drugs and other banned items thrown over the fence.

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.

Tracy Chapman, has created a space ready for Kathleen Folbigg to move into if she's released from prison.

The man died in jail, having gained 117kg after suffering poor mental health and being medicated for severe pain.

Darko Desic escaped from Grafton jail in 1992 after being convicted of cannabis cultivation two years earlier but turned himself into police last year.

Police say three prisoners have escaped from a low security prison in Darwin.

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.

Putin spoke a day after Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout was swapped for WNBA star and two-time Olympian Brittney Griner.

Brittney Griner's freedom depended on the release of a notorious weapons trader who had evaded US authorities for years.

Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert who was imprisoned by Iran on a spying conviction has warned the hardline Middle Eastern country has infiltrated this country.

After 650 days imprisoned in Myanmar, Australian academic Sean Turnell is in "remarkably good" spirits, speaking about his time in jail and even cracking jokes.

Police are investigating the death in custody of a man from a remote Queensland Indigenous community.

US basketball star Brittney Griner has been sent to a penal colony in Russia to serve her sentence for drug possession, her legal team has said.

An inmate has been left badly injured after after a major riot and fire ripped through Yatala Labour Prison in Adelaide yesterday.

Specialist police negotiators have been called in and a major security operation launched after the inmate scaled the roof of the medium-security prison.

In a rare softening of hostile relations, Venezuela has freed seven imprisoned Americans in exchange for the US releasing two nephews of President Nicolás Maduro's wife.

The prison officer has been rushed to hospital in a serious condition.

A 42-year-old convicted bombmaker serving life in prison for a deadly 2007 explosion outside a Las Vegas Strip resort has escaped from a Nevada state prison, officials said Tuesday.

Mark Frerichs, an American held captive in Afghanistan for more than two years, has been released in a prisoner swap.

Two men who escaped from a Victorian youth justice centre by climbing out its roof have both been caught and returned to police custody.

US officials believe Russia is preparing to falsify evidence to blame Ukrainian forces for last week's deadly blast at the Olenivka prison.

A British man sentenced to death by proxy Russian court for fighting in Ukraine has been told the execution will proceed.

The man used a hidden pistol to gun down the officer in Kentucky.

Russia threatened to put some of the captured Ukrainian soldiers in Mariupol on trial for war crimes.

Authorities continue to search for an Alabama corrections official and the inmate she disappeared with.

A missing Alabama corrections official accused of helping a murder defendant escape from jail last week had a nonphysical "special relationship" with him that included allowing him privileges while incarcerated, a sheriff said.

White was jailed two years ago and authorities believed he was planning to escape.

The US Marshals Service is offering up to US $10,000 for information about an escaped inmate and a "missing and endangered" correctional officer who disappeared on Friday after the two left a jail in north Alabama.

A prison official from Alabama is missing after escorting an inmate to a courthouse for a hearing.

Her mother, Aunty Donna Nelson, addressed her inquest today, fighting back tears as she spoke of her daughter's passing.

Police are hunting a handcuffed prisoner who allegedly broke free of officers south-west of Brisbane last night.

A Mississippi death row inmate has told a judge under oath that he wants to continue appealing his case, months after saying he wanted to give up his appeals and request an execution date

Texas Reps. Jeff Leach, a Republican, and Joe Moody, a Democrat, led a group of politicians to the Mountain View Unit in Gatesville where Melissa Lucio is a death row inmate

President Nayib Bukele says if the gangs “unleash a wave of crimes, we are going to cut off food in the prisons"

Amnesty International had accused Iranian authorities of torturing him through the denial of medical care and called for his release.

Nearly a dozen Russian prisoners of war have appeared in news conferences held by Ukrainian authorities.

Convicted killer Scott Peterson's chance for a new trial in the murders of his pregnant wife and unborn son 20 years ago hinges on whether a juror was biased because she was a domestic violence victim.

There are renewed calls today for the release of an Australian man from a Myanmar prison one year since his arrest.

California Governor Gavin Newsom, who three years ago placed a moratorium on executions, now is moving to dismantle the US' largest death row by moving all condemned inmates to other prisons within two years.

The Federal Government has been warned by China not to interfere over the detention of Australian writer Yang Hengjun.

If all goes as scheduled, 23-year-old Lindsey Kirk will be at a US prison this week to watch the execution of the stepfather who terrorised her family, sexually assaulted her when she was a child and killed her mother.

An American woman convicted of helping to kill her mother on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali and stuff the body into a suitcase has been deported to the United States.

A Western Australian prisoner at the centre of jail break manhunt is back behind bars today and facing charges.

A federal judge in Oklahoma ruled on Monday that the state can move forward with scheduled lethal injections for five death row inmates.

Myanmar's junta has freed hundreds of political prisoners from Yangon's Insein prison, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing local media