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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
A powerful news report on Brazil’s dramatic rise in female prisoner numbers has used data from our World Female Imprisonment List.
This year marks a remarkable milestone: the 25th anniversary of the World Prison Brief. What began…
At regular intervals over the past year or so, reporters have contacted us about foreign nationals…
Well over three million people are held in pre-trial detention and other forms of remand…
Data from ICPR’s latest edition of the World Female Imprisonment List (published in February 2025)…
The Agora Center for Research recently released a report documenting brutal conditions in Uganda's…
Zinat Jimada is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Crime & Justice Policy Research (ICPR)…
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…
