Britain’s prison population is at its lowest in eight years thanks to new government rules which have boosted early releases by more than 50 percent in the last six months.
The UK taxpayer will hand over around £20,000 so a transgender murderer, accused of having sex with women in female prisons, can be flown hundreds of miles for a surgical sex change.
France will release some 450 radical Islamic extremists from prison by the end of next year including 50 considered terror threats.
A Huffington Post contributor argued this week that only men should go to prison.
An inmate of a prison in Brest, north-west France, escaped his jailers Wednesday morning in an apparently intricately organised plot to get the terror watch-list male out of custody.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ deputies are ending President Barack Obama’s last-minute decision to enforce the transgender ideology in federal prisons.
A U.S. District Court judge sentenced a Ghanian national convicted of carrying out a $300,000 food stamp fraud scheme to eight months behind bars Friday.
The number of people convicted of terror-related offences in the UK has shot up by 75 per cent in just three years, the government has said, amid concerns about radicalisation behind bars.
Fifty per cent of French citizens say they want prisons to be tougher on inmates as polling trends continue to show a surge in favour of traditionally conservative policies.
New data from the U.S. Sentencing Commission revealed that American women of all races receive shorter prison sentences than white men who commit the same crimes.
68 people were reportedly killed on Wednesday in a riot at the police station in Valencia, Venezuela. When families gathered outside on Thursday to demand news of their loved ones, the police dispersed the crowd with tear gas.
An Oklahoma mother who married her son and then her daughter is headed for prison after she pleaded guilty Tuesday to felony incest.
A report published by the United Nations on Monday, March 5, criticizes the Iranian regime for its systematic abuse, torture, and rape of prisoners and for its heightened restrictions on freedom of expression and access to the Internet.
A former doctor and Boy Scout leader in Missouri who was convicted of sexually abusing a teenager will be released from prison Tuesday after serving four months behind bars.
A chaplain who was allegedly dismissed from his role at HMP Brixton Prison for having “extreme” Christian views has said that some prisoners are being forced to convert to Islam in exchange for protection from gangs.
An escapee from George County, Mississippi, was shot after allegedly carjacking a vehicle from a concealed carry permit holder.
A federal prison inmate in Atlanta, Georgia, published a Facebook Live video where he admitted to committing a murder that he hasn’t been charged for.
New York State prisoners are set to receive free tablet computers in order to “better prepare convicts for life after imprisonment.”
A Rhode Island rapper whose songs include “Sell Drugsz” has been sentenced to three years in prison for doing just that.
A New Jersey man who racked up 92 arrests throughout his life has been sentenced to 50 years behind bars for killing his son’s mother.
A judge sentenced a Pennsylvania man to prison after he was convicted of marrying his wife’s daughter without getting a divorce first.
LONDON (AP) — British prosecutors were under mounting pressure Saturday to explain why a former London taxi driver suspected of assaulting dozens of women is being freed after less than a decade in prison.
A North Carolina judge has sentenced a former felon to 37 months in jail after the man threatened a company with a cyberattack if they did not fire one of their employees and hire him.
A Florida man convicted of a hate crime for leaving bacon in a mosque and breaking the mosque’s windows has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.
A judge sentenced former Rep. Corrine Brown to five years in federal prison Monday after being convicted of mail, wire, and tax fraud in May.
The UK has set up two new ‘separation wings’ in prisons to isolate jihadists and other extremists and stop them spreading their murderous ideology.
A rising number of prisoners caught with extremist Islamist texts in UK jails is fuelling fears the prison system is becoming a hotbed of radicalisation.
Nearly 200 children between the ages of 12 to 18 are currently being held on terror charges in Turkey.
A deal that promised send prisoners from the European Union (EU) back home to serve their sentences and save the taxpayer over a £100 million has been slammed as just a handful a year are being deported.
An Egyptian immigrant, convicted paedophile, and serial rapist will have his jail term in the UK reduced because he is deaf and cannot hear the television in his cell or chat to other inmates.
A new report has shown that Islamic terrorist Karim Cheurfi, who killed a French police officer in April, had been a radical Islamist for well over a decade and expressed a desire to be a “martyr” as far back as 2009.
A ‘transgendered’ convicted double rapist, who is biologically male, has been put in isolation in prison after being moved to an all-female jail, where it is claimed they made advances on female prisoners.
An official Government report has recommended allowing criminals to avoid prosecution by signing up to rehabilitation therapy, in order to reduce the number of Black and Minority Ethnic convicts in the prison system.
The governor of Venezuela’s inland Amazonas province denounced a “massacre” Wednesday at a prison in his state, alleging that police acting at the behest of the socialist regime attempted to storm the prison and killed 37 inmates in the process.
BERLIN (AP) — A 96-year-old former Auschwitz death camp guard who was convicted as an accessory to murder is fit to go to prison, German prosecutors said Wednesday. His lawyer said he will contest their decision.
A man convicted of raping a child twice, once when she was 10 and again when she was 11, received the maximum penalty Thursday at his sentencing hearing.
A registered sex offender who was released from prison six weeks ago is back in jail after he allegedly broke into a stranger’s Kansas apartment to rape a 7-year-old girl.
A judge at Leicester Crown Court praised a Muslim van driver who deliberately mounted a pavement and ran down five men during Ramadan as “a good family man” who was behaving “completely out of character”.
A man who shot dead three people while robbing a fast food joint 23 years ago is scheduled to be executed Thursday night.
A Baltimore man was sentenced to four years behind bars for illegally trafficking food stamps.
