Brazil's Congress has voted to reduce former President Jair Bolsonaro's prison sentence for plotting a coup. This decision overrides Presid...

The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize has 287 candidates. Donald Trump is a potential nominee. The committee is concerned about jailed laureate Narges...

The Ministry of Home Affairs has urged states and union territories to utilize the 'Support to Poor Prisoners Scheme' to aid inmates unable...

The Central government has urged all states and Union Territories to implement Section 479 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 ...

Ukraine's parliament has passed a bill allowing certain prisoners to enlist in the armed forces amid a critical shortage of military person...

The Centre has expressed dissatisfaction with states over the slow implementation of a scheme to aid impoverished prisoners. Despite letter...

Lostprophets' Ian Watkins was assaulted in prison, with authorities investigating the stabbing incident at HMP Wakefield.

PSI 2020 reports that only a third of inmates eligible for early release under Section 436A of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) were r...

The scheme, the Home Ministry said, does not apply to those prisoners who were convicted with death sentence, life imprisonment, rape, terr...

The home ministry said that women and transgender convicts above 50 years with overall good conduct, especially those not punished in the l...

The remission scheme is intended to ensure prison discipline and good conduct on the part of prisoners with the prospect of early release f...

A bench comprising Chief Justice N V Ramana and Justices L Nageswara Rao and Surya Kant said all those prisoners who were allowed to go out...

Prison inmates should not be denied the vaccine because they did not have an Aadhaar card, the HC said and observed that making the documen...

The Bombay High Court has directed the Maharashtra government to expedite the process of releasing prisoners and undertrials identified as ...

The central government has already conveyed to all states the guidelines on who all eligible for amnesty and asked them to prepare a list b...

Almost 80% of Indian prisoners in the UAE are eligible for relocation to Indian jails but only 10% wish to serve the remainder of sentence ...

Manu Sharma, undergoing life term in Tihar jail in the Jessica Lall murder case, will not get the semi-open prison facility for his parole ...