A man has been granted permission to visit his girlfriend in a Brazilian prison where she is serving a sentence for cutting off his penis. Gilberto de Oliveira, 40, had his male organ cut by ...

A HUSBAND whose penis was cut off with a razor and flushed down the loo by his jealous wife is still showing up for prison romps with her. Gilberto Nogueira, 40, has now been banned from ...

The Marshall Project reports on the pushback that efforts to cut long prison sentences face from crime victim advocates and conservative groups.

When a 2016 California law made it possible for Lance Gonzalez to shorten his prison sentence by completing more rehabilitation programs and education, he hit the ground running. Gonzalez "poured ...

At present, the state's prison population is 5,000 people over capacity. A few years after Wisconsin's 1997 sentencing law passed, Gawaine Edwards was convicted of felony murder and armed robbery ...

Families of convicts in Stockton's Holme House prison say they were left worried after expected phone calls from their loved ones never came. A power cut at the Stockton prison on Friday left ...

Inmates at San Quentin State Prison shown from the neck down wearing blue uniforms and navy sweat pants that say “CDCR prisoner” wait in line in 2016. When a 2016 California law made it ...

Though he is provided with a straw mat, Matthew says he prefers to sleep on the concrete floor of his cell in the maximum-security wing of Singapore’s Changi Prison. “It’s more cooling that ...

The Marshall Project reports on the pushback that efforts to cut long prison sentences face from crime victim advocates and conservative groups. When a 2016 California law made it possible for ...

The second part of the scheme comes as the government announced a review of sentencing, chaired by former justice secretary David Gauke, which will explore tougher punishments outside prison and ...