A man who was under trial was strangled by two prisoners inside the lock-up of the Saket District Court in Delhi over a past rivalry. The victim, Aman, was taken to the hospital but was declared dead.

An Arizona man, who admitted to setting his two-year-old daughter on fire with gasoline in 1999, has died in jail. Shawn Ryan Grell, 50, was serving a life sentence until he died on April 19 at ASPC-Tucson facility.

A female prison officer, who engaged in phone sex with a prisoner, has confessed to public misconduct and faces jail time.

Karachi's Malir Jail houses at least 5,000 prisoners and is home to some of the country's most high-profile inmates, including terrorists.

Over 200 prisoners have escaped from a high-security jail in Pakistan's port city of Karachi after chaos erupted following an earthquake, a minister said on Tuesday.

Prosecutors said Espino and Young tortured Leger by pouring hot sauce into his eyes and rectum.

Dozens of prisoners escaped from a jail in the Pakistan city of Karachi late on Monday night, a provincial law minister said.

The second round of direct peace talks between Russia and Ukraine in the Turkish city of Istanbul ended without any major breakthrough on Monday, but the two warring sides agreed to a deal to swap more prisoners of war.

According to Tony Spera, the owner, Annabelle is safely back at the Warren Occult Museum in Monroe, Connecticut, under lock and key.

Gnanasekaran, a biryani vendor convicted in the high-profile sexual assault case at the Anna University, has been sentenced to life imprisonment.

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Mahir Abdulrahman was found unresponsive inside his cell at a Leicestershire-based prison in August last year and was later pronounced dead.

The district jail administration released a POCSO prisoner instead of the prisoner who was supposed to be released on bail due to a mix-up of names, police said on Friday.

A US judge on Thursday sentenced a former Goldman Sachs banker central to the 1MDB scandal to two years in prison after prosecutors argued for leniency due to his cooperation.

A South African mother and her partner were sentenced to life in prison for abducting and trafficking her six-year-old daughter to a traditional healer who wanted the child for her body parts.

Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel, 29, was sentenced to over 10 years in prison for organizing logistics and co-conspirator Steve Anthony Shand, 50, was sentenced to over 6 years for picking up migrants in the US.

A former police chief serving a 30-year sentence for rape and murder has escaped from an Arkansas prison. Dressed in a "makeshift" law enforcement uniform, Grant Hardin broke out of the jail on Sunday afternoon and now posed a threat to the public.

The BJP government in Delhi will provide pensions to those who were political prisoners during the Emergency and felicitate them, Chief Minister Rekha Gupta said on Tuesday.

A 21-year-old former flight attendant from the UK is facing up to 25 years in a Sri Lankan prison after being caught allegedly smuggling over 100 pounds (approximately 45 kg) of a deadly new synthetic drug made of human bones.

A retired Miami criminal court judge, once known for handing out tough sentences, has become an unexpected advocate for the parole of Erik and Lyle Menendez.

US authorities admit that Abrego Garcia was deported to an El Salvadoran prison due to an error, but have refused to comply with court orders to return him to the US.

The four inmates, Rafiq Bakri, Bhanwar Lal, Ankit Bansal, and Karan Gupta, had allegedly secured approvals for medical checkups at the SMS Hospital.

Russia and Ukraine completed the exchange of 1000 prisoners each on Sunday, the Russian Defence Ministry and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, in the largest such swap since the war began three years ago.

Russia has launched one of the biggest aerial attacks on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv since the start of the war, using missiles and drones, hours after the two sides began exchanging hundreds of prisoners of war