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A young Australian woman has claimed in a video interview that she was forcibly detained for two weeks in a Covid internment camp, despite not having the virus.

Fights between rival gangs linked to Mexico’s two top drug cartels broke out in Ecuador’s Litoral penitentiary in the city of Guayaquil between Tuesday and Thursday, killing at least 116 inmates, five of whom were beheaded.

A man from Louisiana was sentenced to 15 years in prison once he admitted having sex with a teenage girl whose room he hid in, authorities announced.

The so-called squad member Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), while stumping for ‘squad’ hopeful Nina Turner in Ohio this past weekend, where she called for the abolishment of the carceral system.

President Joe Biden delivered remarks Wednesday on the administration’s strategy to prevent gun crimes across the country when he said there is “a range of programs” he believes is needed to keep Americans from pulling the trigger.

Seven out of ten French people would like to see migrant criminals who committed crimes in France be deported back to their home countries to serve out their sentences.

The Missouri man who sucker-punched a 12-year-old boy dancing on a sidewalk has been sentenced to seven years in prison.

President Joe Biden Department of Justice (DOJ) is weighing in on a lawsuit a male inmate who considers himself a transgender woman filed, blaming Georgia prison officials for allowing other men in the prison to sexually assault him.

Russian prison officials said Monday that dissident Alexei Navalny has been moved to a prison hospital to receive “vitamin therapy” for his ailing health. Navalny’s physician, Yaroslav Ashikhmin, said his patient could “die at any moment.”

Inmates inside a prison in Panama are using cats and other animals to smuggle small packages of drugs into the facility. The animals are conditioned to enter the prison expecting to be fed.

An Illinois man who thought he was providing phones to help the Islamic State commit attacks was sentenced Friday to 13 and a half years in prison.

The L.A. Times reports several inmates are thought to have applied “under false pretenses” and some female prisoners are afraid.

Social media giant Facebook is reportedly building an app for people who are re-entering society following time in prison as part of an effort within the company to create more products for “marginalized communities.”

Rodney Hargrove was shot to death by an as-yet unidentified person as he was waiting for his ride home on Thursday morning.

Wisconsin Republican state Sen. Julian Bradley and Rep. Joe Sanfelippo proposed on Monday that prison convicts’ stimulus checks be withheld to help pay for their crimes.

Forty percent of inmates in California’s state prison system have been vaccinated against the coronavirus, even though the state as a whole is rolling out vaccines much more slowly to the general population.

A jailed far-right nail bomber who had said he wanted to start a “racial war” has allegedly converted to Islam in prison, reportedly asking to be called “Saddam” in admiration of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

Migrant minors are reportedly causing havoc in French prisons and juvenile detention centres, though some doubt the migrants are the age they claim to be.

Police in the multicultural southern Swedish city of Malmö say that the murder rate has fallen since 2018 because many gang leaders are behind bars.

Just three per cent of the fewer than 200 jihadists serving time for terror-related offences are being isolated from other prisoners to stop them radicalising inmates, a report claims.

The Boston Marathon bomber is suing the federal government for $250,000 over what he claims is unlawful and discriminatory treatment at the prison where he is serving his life sentence.

Nine states will put their prisoners ahead of the general public once the coronavirus vaccine is available, and I think that’s the right thing to do. 

A scam caused California taxpayer money that was supposed to go toward COVID-related unemployment benefits to be sent to at least 20,000 prisoners, including well-known convicted murderers Scott Peterson and serial killer Cary Stayner.

The former owner of a testing lab in Alabama received a prison sentence last week for falsifying records, actions prosecutors say caused several families great pain.

Italians in areas designated as coronavirus lockdown “red zones” could face as many as six years in prison if they violate quarantine or lie to public officials.

Islamist terrorist Kujtim Fejzulai had fooled Austrian officials running a deradicalisation programme he was attending before his early prison release that he was reformed — similar to London Bridge terror attacker Usman Khan.

A Florida teenager who admitted he killed a police K-9 in Jacksonville two years ago was sentenced this week to 25 years in prison and ten years probation.

Bevan Cooney, the former business associate of former Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden who flipped on the Biden family, has been moved from his cell, sources familiar with the matter confirmed to Breitbart News.

Prison guards are in “constant threat” of being beheaded by Islamist inmates who want to stream the murders online.

Two radical Islamist inmates — one of which is serving a 22-year sentence for plotting to behead a soldier — at a British prison were found guilty of attempted murder of a prison guard. Both convicts were said to have wanted to become “martyrs”.

The rapper Kodak Black has pleaded with President Donald Trump to commute his prison sentence as he continues to serve time at a maximum-security facility in Kentucky on illegal firearms charges, TMZ reported Thursday.

A Pennsylvania man convicted of threatening President Donald Trump and a district attorney was sentenced to 20 years in prison Thursday.

According to a recent report, prisoners in the United States are finding success posting to the popular Chinese social media app TikTok detailing their lives inside the U.S. prison system. Prisoners access the app using smartphones smuggled into jail.

California’s decision to move coronavirus-infected patients from one prison to another allegedly caused a massive outbreak in San Quentin State Prison, which had previously been unaffected by the disease, according to the New York Times.

An inmate at an Indiana jail severed part of his finger and mailed it to a local newspaper to protest the conditions of that jail.

More than 100 inmates freed from New York’s Rikers Island prison complex over fears of the Chinese coronavirus spreading have since been rearrested for crimes, new details reveal.