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British Army soldier hung onto the bottom of a truck as it drove out of one of the UK’s largest prisons, where he was held pending trial.

A Chicago man was sentenced to 11 years behind bars for sexually assaulting his young relative during a remote learning class in 2020.

A man who escaped from a Mississippi prison with only a few months left before his release is headed back to prison for a long time.

A Florida man accused of removing his ankle monitor was rearrested the day after being freed from prison.

A 66-year-old former UCLA gynecologist will spend the next 11 years in prison after being indicted for sexually abusing patients.

Former Minnesota police officer Kim Potter, who was convicted in the killing of Daunte Wright in 2021, was released from prison on Monday morning.

A manhunt is underway for a convicted rapist whom South African authorities say faked his own death to escape from prison while serving a life sentence.

Aiden Fucci was sentenced to life in prison on Friday for killing his 13-year-old classmate, Tristyn Bailey, by stabbing her 114 times.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) introduces legislation to ensure “criminals who commit carjackings aren’t eligible for early release from prison” as people have started to voice frustration over the “revolving door” that suspects are receiving in parts of the country.

An ex-soldier from Louisville, Kentucky, will spend the next 45 years behind bars for planning an attack on other soldiers, the Hill reported Saturday.

Nine in ten men who identify as women in Canadian prisons are violent offenders and nearly half of them were convicted of a sex crime, a recent study found.

The family of a woman murdered along with her two children have expressed outrage that the Parole Board for England and Wales is considering sending the killer to a so-called “open prison”. 

The Scottish Prison Service (SPS) is abandoning First Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s policy of allocating convicts according to their gender identity.

The devastating earthquakes that rocked Turkey and Syria on Monday damaged a prison in the Syrian town of Rajo near the Turkish border, giving its 2,000 prisoners an opportunity to riot, during which at least 20 of them reportedly escaped.

Discussions regarding the protection of women and girls in UK prisons could be “transphobic”, a pro-LGBT group has claimed.

A woman was sentenced Friday to three years in New Jersey State Prison for her part in a well-known $400,000 GoFundMe scam that defrauded more than 14,000 people.

Michael Avenatti, the disgraced lawyer who became a media darling after targeting former President Donald Trump, was sentenced on Monday to 14 years in prison for stealing millions of dollars from his clients and trying to obstruct the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from collecting millions in unpaid payroll taxes.

Salah Abdeslam the only surviving member of the terrorist cell that carried out the 2015 Bataclan massacre in Paris and has been sentenced to life in prison was married this week by telephone.

The number of inmates in French prisons has reached a record high as crime continues to surge.

During an interview with NBC News released on Friday, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) defended his goal of halving the state’s prison population and argued that “eventually, we should be looking to lower it as much as possible” by “making

A Georgia inmate is accused of stealing millions of dollars from a billionaire Hollywood producer to purchase gold coins and a $4.4 million home in Atlanta.

Sherri Papini, the woman who pleaded guilty to faking her own kidnapping, was sentenced Monday in California to 18 months in prison and her attorney deemed it “fair.”

The man who shot Ahmaud Arbery received a sentence Monday in Brunswick, Georgia, of life in prison on charges of committing a federal hate crime.

Male prisoners who identify as “transgender” are to be no longer incarcerated with women, a minister is set to promise.

Hunter Biden reportedly did not register as a foreign agent while making business deals overseas, according to the New York Post.

Ecuador’s government said on Tuesday that it was still trying to identify the dismembered “human parts” of an estimated 12 inmates killed during a prison riot in Santo Domingo city that day, Reuters reported.

A man identifying as a woman who impregnated two women while behind bars at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in Clinton, New Jersey, has been moved to another location.

A survey has revealed that over seven in ten French people want foreign criminals to serve their sentences in their countries of origin after being convicted of crimes in France. The polling showed that a total of 72 per cent

The Feds are hastening the process to get a convicted male bank robber with ties to a neo-Nazi group “gender-reassignment” surgery.

The upper house of the national legislature in Japan passed a bill Monday that would punish people convicted of making online insults with up to one year in prison and fines of up to $2,231, Kyodo News reported.

The Spanish Interior Ministry has warned prison guards and other prison officials to take extreme caution over threats to their safety from Jihadi inmates after threats made in a radical Islamic magazine. the Interior Ministry warned prison employees to take

El Salvador’s Legislative Assembly approved on Tuesday a law to expedite the construction of new prisons, El Salvador’s La Prensa Gráfica newspaper reported, noting the legislation aims to help accommodate some of the 13,573 alleged gang members arrested by police in the country over the past month as part of an unprecedented crime crackdown.

Courts across the Malaysian states of Sabah, Sarawak, and the national capital city of Kuala Lumpur have used an Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) system to determine and assign sentences in criminal cases since February 2020, with the pilot program set to end by April 2022, the digital news platform Mashable Southeast Asia reported on Wednesday.

El Salvador’s government declared a month-long state of emergency on Sunday in response to a recent spike in murders nationwide, the Venezuelan news website Runrun.es reported.

Former police officer Kim Potter has been sentenced to two years in prison for manslaughter over the death of Daunte Wright, who tried to flee a traffic stop.

An inmate accused of murdering a convicted child predator inside a Michigan prison after the man’s sentencing has admitted his guilt in the killing.