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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 has produced the fifty first issue of the International Prison News Digest, a selection…
The Institute for Criminal Policy Research (ICPR), based at the School of Law, Birkbeck, has…
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…
