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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 15 February the Brazilian Minister of Justice and Public Security, Sérgio Fernando Moro, claimed…
ICPR has produced the fifty fourth issue of the International Prison News Digest, a selection…
Catherine Heard directs the World Prison Research Programme at the Institute for Crime &…
ICPR has today published the French translation of the 3rd Edition of A Human Rights Approach to…
ICPR has produced the fifty third issue of the International Prison News Digest, a selection…
A new report, Pre-trial detention and its over-use: Evidence from ten countries, is published today…
ICPR is pleased to announce that, to reflect the wide range of research we now carry out across…
ICPR has produced the fifty second issue of the International Prison News Digest, a selection…
