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Welcome to the News section of the World Prison Brief, where the Institute for Crime & Justice Policy Research delivers timely updates on urgent prison-related developments around the globe. From data-driven insights into prison labour and sentencing reforms to global prison population trends and gender disparities, this page brings you the latest briefings, evidence submissions, and expert commentary shaping policy and public debate
On 23 March 2026, at the margin of the 61st Session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, ICPR and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights held a side event on the topic of Human Rights Compliant Alternative Measures to Pre-Trial Detention.
World Prison Brief data has been cited in an article in The Economist looking at the increasing…
The law, policy and practice of prison work provision in Brazil are explained in a new briefing by…
In January, ICPR submitted evidence to the Independent Sentencing Review led by the Rt Hon David…
New prison population data reveals that the number of female prisoners has grown much faster than…
We have again drawn on our international prisons research to inform an important inquiry seeking to…
The prisons research team at ICPR has given evidence to an important review of sentencing policy in…
Prison Insider have launched a new tool to evaluate prison conditions: here, Sara Blanc…
Journalists here and abroad have been using our prison populations data to make sense of the…
