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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.
ICPR intern blogs about Colloquium on Risk and Vulnerability in Prison Populations – a Global Crisis
On 21 October, the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research, in collaboration with the Institute…
ICPR has produced the thirty fifth issue of the International Prison News Digest, a selection of…
Important new publication proposes radical re-think on the use of imprisonment worldwide and offers…
Information on prison population levels prior to 1980 has been added to the World Prison Brief…
More than 10.35 million people are in prison around the world, new report published by the…
Over 700,000 women and girls in prison around the world, new report by Institute for…
ICPS has produced the twenty fourth issue of its News Digest, which is a selection of news items…
ICPS has produced the twenty third issue of its News Digest, which is a selection of news items…
