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ICPR has published a report detailing the findings of a research project on experiences of care proceedings funded by the Department for Education.

A powerful news report on Brazil’s dramatic rise in female prisoner numbers has used data from our World Female Imprisonment List.

Professor Mai Sato, has commented on the case of a child bride in Iran, Goli Kouhkan, who has been spared execution over the death of her husband after his parents were paid the equivalent of £70,000 in exchange for their forgiveness.

This year marks a remarkable milestone: the 25th anniversary of the World Prison Brief. What began as a modest attempt to compile worldwide prison data has evolved into an indispensable resource accessed over 2.7 million times by more than 524,000 users from 230 countries and territories in 2025 alone.

At regular intervals over the past year or so, reporters have contacted us about foreign nationals in prison. Usually, they are looking for context and comment on controversial proposals emanating from the USA, the UK, Sweden and Denmark to remove foreign nationals from their prisons and send them to third countries with which they lacked any connection.

Well over three million people are held in pre-trial detention and other forms of remand imprisonment throughout the world, according to the latest edition of the World Pre-trial/Remand Imprisonment List (WPTRIL), published today by the Institute for Crime & Justice Policy Research.

Data from ICPR’s latest edition of the World Female Imprisonment List (published in February 2025) have been used extensively in two articles in The Guardian.

Bina Bhardwa and Samantha Atkinson share their early insights on how young people encounter and navigate the risks of online fraud.