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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.
On 9 June 2017, ICPR Director Dr Jessica Jacobson gave a paper on 'Understanding and reducing the…
ICPR has produced the thirty eighth issue of the International Prison News Digest, a selection of…
In this 20 minute podcast, Catherine Heard, Director of ICPR’s World Prison Research Programme,…
Overcrowding, inhumane and degrading detention conditions and disproportionate harm to…
ICPR has produced the thirty seventh issue of the International Prison News Digest, a selection of…
Around three million people are held in pre-trial detention and other forms of remand imprisonment…
Outgoing US President Barack Obama uses World Prison Brief data in an article reflecting on his…
Today sees the publication of two briefings authored by Jessica Jacobson and Helen Fair of the…
