A British man who has been on hunger strike in a US prison since September 2007 can legally be force-fed by prison authorities, a court has ruled.

The Government is considering a proposal to limit the sale of knives to young people amid concerns over the number of knife crimes.

Rapper Lil Wayne, his lawyer Stacey Richman by his side, listened to the judge in a Manhattan criminal court sentence him yesterday to a year in jail for having a loaded gun on his tour bus.

The proposed three strikes bill would be grossly unjust and could result in an 11,000 per cent rise in time spent in prisons, an independent organisation on crime says.

A stabbing victim is leaving the country and fears for his life because his attacker is about to be released from prison without having done any rehabilitation programme.

A New Zealand man who tried to rape a young girl after travelling to England to try to save his marriage has been sentenced to 15 and a half years in jail.

The country's youngest convicted killer is the subject of a new police complaint, accused of indecently assaulting two female journalists.

35-year-old prisoner displays her resourcefulness with cutlery to escape from a prison in the Dutch city of Breda.

France's most notorious escapee, Jean-Pierre Treiber, who once posted himself out of jail in a cardboard box, hanged himself in his prison cell at the weekend.

A model and former Auckland rugby cheerleader is facing a lengthy stint behind bars after being convicted of buying and selling P from a drug "supermarket".

A prisoner's unanswered pleas for rehabilitation treatment has led to criticism of Corrections' record on reducing reoffending,