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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.
ICPR has produced the fiftieth issue of the International Prison News Digest, a selection of…
ICPR has produced the forty ninth issue of the International Prison News Digest, a selection…
Russia’s falling prison population Roy WalmsleyIn most countries prison population levels have…
ICPR has produced the forty eighth issue of the International Prison News Digest, a selection…
On 8 and 9 November 2018, ICPR welcomed speakers from Brazil, America, Thailand, Australia, the…
ICPR has produced the forty seventh issue of the International Prison News Digest, a selection…
Prison populations continue to soar in much of the world, new report published by the Institute for…
The Institute for Criminal Policy Research at Birkbeck, University of London is holding a free…
