News from prisons

Violent criminals could be let out early for good behaviour under new proposals

France to open new high security prison in French Guiana

Safety concerns at prison in Wellingborough holding sex offenders

More offenders could be tagged, as James Timpson insists he’s ‘not soft on crime’

Iraq's justice minister says prisons are at double their capacity as amnesty law takes effect

Trump says he will reopen 'substantially enlarged' Alcatraz prison

Review into body armour for prison staff after Abedi HMP Frankland attack

French prisons targeted with arson, gunfire: ministry

ICE admits to an 'administrative error' after Maryland man sent to El Salvador prison

Government won't rule out shortening sentences of violent offenders to free up prison space as it opens new jail

DHS secretary set to visit infamous migrant prison on trip that includes stops in El Salvador

Why the men sent to El Salvador’s mega-prison may never make it out

Police cells to be used to hold prisoners - as jails fill up

Dominica crams thousands of inmates facing no charges into overcrowded prisons

Males detained by ICE to be housed in federal prisons, new memo says

U.S. federal prisons being used to detain people arrested in Trump’s immigration crackdown

Israel soldier jailed for abusing Palestinian detainees from Gaza

Venezuela agrees to take back its citizens, releases U.S. prisoners

Sean "Diddy" Combs reportedly underwent treatment in a hospital as he awaits trial on sex trafficking charges