Brazil's federal police on Saturday arrested former president Jair Bolsonaro over suspicion he was plotting to escape and avoid starting a 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt.

The central prison in Karnataka's Shivamogga saw a crackdown on narcotics on Friday. Officials seized 123 grams of marijuana and dozens of cigarettes.

Using the alias "Diaperjdv," James Donald "JD" Vance Jr. issued death threats against US President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance.

Ricin terror plot suspect Ahmed Mohiyuddin Saiyed, arrested recently by the Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS), was injured in a fight with three undertrial inmates inside the high-security Sabarmati Central Prison in Ahmedabad on Tuesday.

A convicted murderer is challenging an Australian state's ban on prisoners eating Vegemite, claiming in a court suit that withholding the polarizing yeast-based spread breaches his human right to "enjoy his culture as an Australian."

A Venezuelan court has sentenced a doctor to 30 years in prison for criticizing Nicolas Maduro's government in a WhatsApp audio message, rights groups told AFP on Monday.

A Chinese national dubbed "one of the most prolific sex offenders of all time" by British police was sentenced to life in prison on Friday.

Ghislaine Maxwell's time at the Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas, has come under scrutiny following reports that she has been granted access to resources and arrangements usually denied to other inmates.

Referring to Anant Singh's possible release, one of the posters read: "Jail ka faatak tootega, hamara sher chootega (The prison gates will break, our lion will be released)."

The police have booked four undertrial prisoners at the Bengaluru Central Jail after a video went viral showing them dancing and using prohibited items.

A Texas teen has been sentenced to 65 years in prison for causing a crash that killed six members of an Indian-origin family in 2023.

In the wake of recent viral videos from Bengaluru's Parappana Agrahara Central Prison, Karnataka Home Minister Gangadharaiah Parameshwara has ordered formation of "a high-power committee to look into the activities of all prisons across the state."

Allegations of major security lapses and preferential treatment at Bengaluru's Parappana Agrahara Central jail have surfaced after videos showed notorious inmates, including an ISIS recruiter, using mobile phones and watching television.

A court in western Germany has sentenced a palliative care nurse to life in prison for murdering 10 of his patients and trying to kill 27 others.

Sir Keir Starmer was apparently not aware of the incident until the police announced it.

Two US courts have ordered immigration officials not to deport Subramanyam Vedam, the 64-year-old Indian-origin man who spent four decades in prison before his murder conviction was overturned earlier this year.

Sean "Diddy" Combs has been transferred to a prison in New Jersey to serve out the remainder of his four-year prison sentence on prostitution-related charges.

US hip-hop star Sean 'Diddy' Combs has been transferred to a prison in New Jersey to serve his jail term of four years and two months for prostitution-related crimes, a federal register showed Friday.

A sessions court in Maharashtra's Thane district has sentenced a Bangladeshi national to eight years in prison after holding him guilty in a rape case.

Sukhdev Pehalwan, one of the convicts in the Nitish Katara murder case, has died in an accident in Uttar Pradesh's Kushinagar district, months after he was released from prison after serving a 20-year sentence.

Pakistan media reports said she had been captured. Pakistan media reports said Squadron Leader Shivangi Singh was a prisoner of war, her fighter jet shot down during Operation Sindoor. But she was not. Pakistan had lied, and was found out.

A Utah judge on Monday ruled that the 22-year-old alleged killer of US conservative activist Charlie Kirk may wear street clothes during his trial, instead of prison attire, over concerns of biasing the jury.

Yemen's Houthi rebels have released model Entisar al-Hammadi after holding her in prison for nearly five years, her lawyer and a security source told AFP on Sunday.

Speaking at the signing, Trump called it a "monumental step" and congratulated both Anutin and Hun for the move.