Prison news headlines

The strongarm measures have been criticised as "torture", but supporters say the country is much safer.

Gypsy Rose Blanchard, who served eight and a half years for helping to kill her abusive mother, has announced that she is set to become a mother herself.

A former NSW prison guard sentenced to more than two decades in jail for sexually assaulting nine women has lost a bid to overturn his conviction and sentence.

An inmate miscarried in a correctional facility, authorities still haven't found the mother.

Orpheus Pledger, 31, will be sentenced today after pleading guilty to repeatedly assaulting a woman.

A terror offender who was paralysed from the neck down during an altercation with prison guards is challenging whether later decisions to hold him separate from other inmates were lawful.

One of Victoria's largest prisons will close by next year, with prisoners set to be moved to a $1.1 billion facility.

Supporters of pro-democracy writer Dr Yang Hengjun have called on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to demand the Australian citizen's release from detention on a suspended death sentence.

But the crime and corruption watchdog probe into the state's first juvenile death in custody has laid bare a litany of issues inside the facility, leaving the detainee's family devastated.

The convicted killer drowned his wife in a pond. His own son said "he died where he belongs".

The dogs will help detect and intercept drugs, tobacco and illicit mobile phones from circulating in the prisons.

Robert Pickton, who was confirmed to have killed six women, suffered life-threatening injuries.

Authorities in Algeria rescued him from a sheep pen in what has been described as a 'heinous' crime.

A massive manhunt has been launched to recapture Mohamed Amra, the reported head of a drugs network.

It is hoped the arrival of the multinational mission will restore stability to the beleaguered nation, which is at risk of becoming a failed state.

The killer has launched a lawsuit based on witness accounts of the first man to be executed in the same way.

The pair, who had two children together, were married in 2001 but separated in mid-2011.

A woman was seen lighting a cigarette before checking on her two toddlers who had died after being left in a hot car for several hours, an inquest has heard.

US intelligence officials have determined Russian President Vladimir Putin likely didn't order the death of imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny, an official says.

The pair were part of a group of far-right National Socialist Network and European Australian Movement members who set upon the hikers in May 2021.

Kelly's father Ralph now claims they were denied facts about Loveridge's time behind bars before the submission was made to the parole board.

Nathan Baggaley and his brother are accused of being in possession of drugs while behind bars.

She was searched inside the prison buffer zone and a number of contraband items - including meth, an ice pipe and cash - were allegedly found in her possession.

A Missouri man has been executed for killing his cousin and her husband nearly two decades ago after a last bid ditch to save his life failed.

Kieran Loveridge, the man convicted of manslaughter over the 2012 coward-punch killing of Thomas Kelly, has been granted parole.

Cleveland Dodd threatened to self-harm eight times in the hours before he was found unresponsive in his cell.

The "Chester Trio" have proclaimed their innocence for two decades, and scientific advances could be their savior.

Duke Allan Wayne Schafer, was found unresponsive in the prison's laundry room. Another inmate admitted to killing him.

The sentencing judge dismissed Toni Peacock's remorse, saying she pled guilty as 'the best possible result (she) could hope for'.

US authorities have said they believe the deaths of an 83-year-old man who was walking his dogs and a 72-year-old man who lived in a remote cabin are connected to the escape of an Idaho white supremacist prison gang member.

Erin Patterson has been charged with three counts of murder after a deadly lunch at her Victorian home.

A gunfight erupted during the attack that left three prison officers injured.

A 20-year-old prisoner will face court over the death of a fellow inmate.

A man in his 40s was found with serious injuries in his cell last month.

The death of the toddler prompted the state government to introduce legislation known as Skye's Law.

Corey Hastings was found in Bondi after leaving the Matraville prison yesterday in what's being blamed on an 'administration error'.

Police are searching for a prisoner accidentally released from a Sydney prison as correctional services authorities try to work out what went wrong.

Lawyers for Snowtown murders accomplice Mark Haydon have dropped an application challenging a government bid to have him kept under strict supervision upon his release from prison.

Authorities in Haiti have ordered a nighttime curfew following an explosion of violence in which armed gang members overran the two biggest prisons and freed thousands of inmates over the weekend.

The photo array was just one of several pieces of questionable evidence used to convict Gwynn.

A volunteer medical team tried unsuccessfully for a hour to find a vein to execute US serial killer Thomas Eugene Creech by lethal injection, before halting the procedure.

A man who helped cover up Australia's worst serial killings will be let out of prison on parole, it has been announced.

José Adolfo Macías' recent jailbreak shone a light on the country's lawless, gang-controlled prisons.

More citizens are in jail awaiting their day in court than ever before, research released today shows.

He was found dead just days after a 42-year-old man died at the same prison.

The organs of two prisoners who died in Alabama prisons have gone missing, according to a lawsuit.

A Missouri woman who persuaded an online boyfriend to kill her mum after she had forced her to pretend for years that she was suffering from a range of serious illnesses, has been released early from prison.

That '70s Show actor Danny Masterson has been sent to a California state prison to serve his sentence for two rape convictions.

Navalny appears to have covered more than 6000 kilometres in the 20 days he was missing.

The opposition leader is in the "highest possible level of isolation from the world" after he went missing almost three weeks ago.