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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 21 April 2026, ICPR hosted an online event to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the World Prison…
A powerful news report on Brazil’s dramatic rise in female prisoner numbers has used data from our…
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)…
