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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 11 March ICPS was delighted to receive a visit from Ana Maria Morales Peillard, Director of…
ICPS has produced the nineteenth issue of its News Digest, which is a selection of news items from…
Roy Walmsley, Director of the World Prison Brief, participated in a recent colloquium on female…
Professor Andrew Coyle has contributed a chapter to this new publication in the series Health…
ICPS has produced the eighteenth issue of its News Digest, which is a selection of news items from…
On 19th December 2013, the jury at the inquest into the death in custody of 19 year old Ashley…
In June 2013 we were delighted to hear that Andy Barclay, our Projects' Director until his…
More than 10.2 million people are held in penal institutions throughout the world according to the…
