Denmark Denmark agrees €15m deal to send 300 foreign prisoners to Kosovo Danish authorities had initially announced plans to rent prison cells in the small Western Balkan country in December. 27/04/2022
France Prisoners use mail-in voting for first time in a presidential election It's seen a sharp rise in the number of prisoners voting this time around. 08/04/2022
Bulgaria Bulgaria's former PM Boyko Borissov released from detention The former prime minister was freed after prosecutors failed to come up with enough evidence to press charges. His lawyer said the arrest came as part of an inquiry into alleged extortion. 19/03/2022
Myanmar Myanmar junta releases hundreds of prisoners on country's Unity Day In a customary gesture for national holidays, the country's military ruler Min Aung Hlaing also announced an amnesty for more than 860 prisoners, state-run newspapers reported. 12/02/2022
no comment Iran 'jail restaurant' aims to free bad debt inmates Two Iranian ex-prisoners have opened a successful "jail restaurant" to help raise funds to free convicts languishing behind bars for unpaid debts 08/02/2022
Kosovo Denmark agrees €15 million deal to rent prison cells in Kosovo The inmates will be sent to a prison in Gjilan – a town located some 50 kilometres from the capital Pristina, starting from 2023. 21/12/2021
Denmark Denmark plans to rent 300 prison cells in Kosovo to ease overcrowding The cells will be used to house foreign prisoners who are due to be deported after serving their sentences. 16/12/2021
Egypt Egyptian activist released from prison after nearly two years He was arrested in February 2020, shortly after landing in Cairo on what was supposed to be a short visit home from Italy. His trial has been postponed until February next year. 08/12/2021
Experiences 6 extraordinary holiday rentals for history lovers in the UK Whether you want to lock yourself up in a former jail cell, or watch birds swoop over the Atlantic from the top of an observation tower, there’s something for every history lover here. 23/11/2021
USA Costumed US Capitol rioter Jacob Chansley jailed for 41 months Carrying a spear and wearing a large fur hat with horns, Chansley was one of the first rioters to invade Congress on January 6. 18/11/2021
Russia Russia dismisses 18 prison officials over rape and torture allegations Videos released by an NGO in October showed a prisoner being sexually abused at a prison hospital in the Saratov region. 10/11/2021
Russia Russia dismisses four prison officials over allegations of rape Russia is investigating allegations of torture and rape in the country's prison system after leaked NGO videos appear to show inmates being abused. 06/10/2021
Italy Inmate thought to have used drone to smuggle gun into Italian prison An Italian prisoner, with links to the Neapolitan mafia, is thought to have smuggled in a gun by drone to shoot at other inmates, a prison union has said. 20/09/2021
Afghanistan Inside the Afghan jail where ex-inmates are now the prison guards The US had used the complex to hold Taliban fighters and was nicknamed Guantanamo. 13/09/2021
Israel Israel recaptures two more Palestinians who broke out of jail Six Palestinians tunnelled out of the Gilboa prison on Monday, setting off a furious manhunt across Israel and in the West Bank. 11/09/2021
France French man sentenced for murdering family members in hunt for gold Hubert Caouissin, 50, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for the quadruple murder of the Troadec family in 2017. 08/07/2021
Belarus Belarus: Journalist Roman Protasevich moved from jail to house arrest Opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya on Friday called moving Pratasevich and Sapega to house arrest “good news,” but stressed it is not the end. “House arrest is not freedom, they're still facing charges, their every step is still being watched" 25/06/2021
Greece Greek MEP and neo-Nazi appears in Athens court Ioannis Lagos, who was detained in Brussels last month, has been sentenced to 13 years in prison in Greece over his membership of the banned Golden Dawn party. 16/05/2021
Europe News Turkey and Russia have highest incarceration rate, says report A new report by the Council of Europe shows that the median age of inmates is 36 years, with 95% being men and only 5% women. 08/04/2021
Russia Alexei Navalny claims he is being harassed by Russian prison staff In an Instagram post, Navalny said the solitary confinement conditions in prison are "torture". 29/03/2021
Afghanistan Afghanistan: ISIS attack on Jalalabad prison leaves many casualties Officials said a suicide car bomb exploded and assailants attacked security forces and stormed the prison in Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar province. 03/08/2020
USA Donald Trump commutes longtime friend Roger Stone's prison sentence The US President's move to save his former adviser from jail is an extraordinary intervention in a criminal case that was central to the Russia investigation and concerned Trump's own conduct. 11/07/2020
Europe News COVID-19: Belgium's overcrowded prisons a 'powder keg' for infections "Since 23 April, I wash myself with water. I had to wash my cell by myself with just water. I picked up the dirt of the prisoner before. What more can I say? The situation here is very bad." 30/04/2020
Italy Death toll rises in Italian prisons as inmates riot over COVID-19 rule The riots were triggered by emergency restrictions imposed amid the COVID-19 outbreak. 09/03/2020
China Chinese court jails Swedish bookseller Gui Minhai for 10 years The naturalised Swedish citizen who sold books in Hong Kong that were sceptical of the Communist Party has been sentenced for 'illegally providing intelligence overseas'. 25/02/2020
United Kingdom 'Bladed weapon' attack on prison officer treated as terrorism Two inmates used “improvised bladed weapons” in the assault at Whitemoor jail, a maximum-security facility 120 kilometres north of London. 10/01/2020
