The National Audit Office (NAO), Whitehall’s spending watchdog, in a report put out on Friday, found that efforts by the government to improve prison conditions, with record levels of safety breaches and “huge” backlogs in repairs, are failing to produce the desired results and that plans to “provide and maintain safe, secure and decent prisons” had not been carried out.

Billionaire US presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg used prison workers to make telephone calls for his election campaign.

Turkey’s state prosecutor calls for the conviction of Amnesty's local head over alleged links to Gulen movement.

Saudi authorities extend the prison sentence of renowned dissident cleric Sheikh Suleiman al-Alwan by four more years.

This year alone the British media has run countless stories about the "deteriorating" conditions inside the country's jails. And now it is official.

Bahrain’s supreme court of appeals has upheld jail terms against a dozen anti-regime activists.

An Emirati court has sentenced a Lebanese man to life imprisonment and two compatriots to 10 years in prison each.